Skeleton

Album: Elsewhere (2021)
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  • Skin and bones, vulnerable
    Crack my ribs and make me whole
    Come and breathe the air into my lungs
    I just wanna be your skeleton

    A silhouette is following
    Just waiting to break me down
    I had it good, that's what I get
    I guess that it's my turn now
    Cut the wires, tangled, twisted
    To find me again
    Fracture, break me into pieces
    'Til all that I am

    Skin and bones, vulnerable
    Crack my ribs and make me whole
    Come and breathe the air into my lungs
    I just wanna be your skeleton
    Fix my head, stitch my soul
    Find out where it all went wrong
    Come and breathe the air into my lungs
    I just wanna be your skeleton
    Skeleton

    A blinding pain behind my eyes
    Is covering up the truth
    Inside my brain's a parasite
    It's telling me what to do
    Feeding on my happiness
    Like I never deserved it at all
    (I never deserved it at all)
    Feeling like a pessimist
    When I just wanna laugh through it all
    (To laugh through it all)

    Skin and bones, vulnerable
    Crack my ribs and make me whole
    Come and breathe the air into my lungs
    I just wanna be your skeleton
    Fix my head, stitch my soul
    Find out where it all went wrong
    Come and breathe the air into my lungs
    I just wanna be your skeleton
    Skeleton

    I project pain with the frame that I maintain
    Pulling on chains, wanna break what I can't change
    All that rage put away in my ribcage
    Comes out in stages, how could I stage this?
    Bending over 'til you break your back for this
    Go 'head and crack my ribs, and take my oxygen
    I'm damned if I do or I don't, I'm breaking my bones
    Can't make it alone, no

    Making such a mess (hey), it's getting permanently
    Painted in my head (hey), and there's no going back
    So love me like I'm dead (hey), until there's nothing left (hey)
    And watch me decompose (hey), 'til I'm

    Skin and bones, vulnerable
    Crack my ribs and make me whole
    Come and breathe the air into my lungs
    I just wanna be your skeleton
    Fix my head, stitch my soul
    Find out where it all went wrong
    Come and breathe the air into my lungs
    I just wanna be your skeleton
    Skeleton Writer/s: Bruce Weigner, Cameron Walker-Wright, Cory Carson
    Publisher: PFIVE Entertainment Mexico, Songtrust Ave, SUNDAE SONGS LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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