A visit to hospital results in a diagnosis of Rhabdomyosarcoma ("between the red cells and white, something's not right"), a form of cancer that requires chemotherapy.

Sarabeth is afraid of the effects that the therapy may have on her, notably hair loss, and draws comfort from her dream of dancing with her boyfriend at her high school prom.

By the time that her boyfriend arrives at her home to accompany her to the dance, she has lost all her hair and is concealing her baldness with a wrap.

When her boyfriend removes his baseball cap, she and her family are surprised to see that he is bald too: he has shaved his head too as a demonstration of his support for her.

[2] 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.