History
Joe Henry wrote the song in 2003 with Doug Johnson. He offered the song to Rascal Flatts, who expressed interest in recording it. The band placed it as a hidden track at the end of the Feels Like Today because the recording contract allowed for only eleven songs on the album, and because the band did not think that "Skin" fit in thematically with the rest of the project.
A radio host at WUSN in Chicago first heard the song while listening to the album in the car with his family, and soon received multiple phone calls asking him to play the song. The airplay received from WUSN caused the song to chart for five months as a non-single, and Lyric Street Records later re-issued Feels Like Today with "Skin" listed as the twelfth track.
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