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To the Bone Lyrics
I’ll get my feelings out
I don’t care where or how
I know I said be gone
Well I’m searching for you now
Your feet, they never found
A firm hold on the ground
Your eyes are burning up
And I need to calm you down
I don’t want you
To the bone
I just need
To lay down with soft skin
Close to my own
The rattled stones I found
I stumbled to the ground
The houses up above
And the way you pin me down
I promise Lord I can
Let me be my true love’s man
I’ll pack her up and run
To a quiet seaside town
I don’t want you
To the bone
I just need
To lay down with soft skin
Close to my own
Until my true love’s home
I don’t care where or how
I know I said be gone
Well I’m searching for you now
A firm hold on the ground
Your eyes are burning up
And I need to calm you down
To the bone
I just need
To lay down with soft skin
Close to my own
I stumbled to the ground
The houses up above
And the way you pin me down
Let me be my true love’s man
I’ll pack her up and run
To a quiet seaside town
To the bone
I just need
To lay down with soft skin
Close to my own
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I'm fairly sure its about adultery in one way or another. Basically, he and his 'true love' are apart and he deeply misses her but desires physical intimacy or something.
"I know I said be gone Well I’m searching for you now"
When his true love was around, he rejected some other girl but now that she's away he is looking for her.
The chorus: "I don’t want you To the bone I just need To lay down with soft skin Close to my own"
Basically, he's telling the girl that he is not in love with her like he is with his true love, he just needs someone to 'lay down' with to ease the pain of being apart from his love.
"Until my true love’s home"
He's telling her that it would be a fleeting relationship and it will be over as soon as he is reunited with his lover, after which point it will all be forgotten.
Beautiful song as always from this wonderful band.