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Twin Skeletons Lyrics
There's a room in a hotel in New York City
That shares our fate and deserves our pity
I don't want to remember it all
The promises I made if you just hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
And I just need enough of you to dull the pain
Just to keep me through the night till we're twins again
Till we're stripped down to our skeletons again
Till we're saints just swimming in our sins again
And there's a jet black crow droning on and on and on
Up above our heads droning on and on and on
Keep making trouble till you find what you love
I need a new partner in crime and you shrug
There's a room in a hotel in New York City
That shares our fate and deserves our pity
I don't want to remember it all
The promises I made, if you just hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
A birth and a death on the same day
And honey I only appeared so I could fade away
I wanna throw my hands in the air and scream
And I could just die laughing on your spiral of shame
And there's a jet black crow droning on and on and on
Up above our heads droning on and on and on
Hit it, never quit it, I have been through the wreck
But I can scream enough to show my face in the light of day
There's a room in a hotel in New York City
That shares our fate and deserves our pity
I don't want to remember it all
The promises I made if you just hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on
That shares our fate and deserves our pity
I don't want to remember it all
The promises I made if you just hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Just to keep me through the night till we're twins again
Till we're stripped down to our skeletons again
Till we're saints just swimming in our sins again
Up above our heads droning on and on and on
Keep making trouble till you find what you love
I need a new partner in crime and you shrug
That shares our fate and deserves our pity
I don't want to remember it all
The promises I made, if you just hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
And honey I only appeared so I could fade away
I wanna throw my hands in the air and scream
And I could just die laughing on your spiral of shame
Up above our heads droning on and on and on
Hit it, never quit it, I have been through the wreck
But I can scream enough to show my face in the light of day
That shares our fate and deserves our pity
I don't want to remember it all
The promises I made if you just hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on
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First line is "it shares our fate, it deserves our pity"
Or at least that how i hear it
One of my favorite FOB songs of all time.
It's hard to point the meaning at any one person, but I think the best guess is Pete's current girlfriend, Meagan. He also posted a picture with him and Gabe Saporta, one of his best friends with the caption, "twin skeletons". Gabe does live in New York, but I'm not sure what can be derived from that. Take it as you will.
Overall, this song is about the devotion of love/commitment to another person and it being returned. I get a sort of "Bonnie and Clyde" vibe from it, especially the line "Keep making trouble 'till you find what you love/I need a new partner in crime and [your shotgun] (that's the real lyric)". Bonnie and Clyde being lovers on the run committing crimes together.
The full title of the song it "Twin Skeleton's (Hotel in NYC)". Notice the apostrophe. It belongs to them. They are together in a wild city (New York), and live there, forever, decaying with one another as they go down with their "sins" and their "trouble" as "partners in crime".
The jet black crow is meant to be a symbol for something constant and pressing, an eternal struggle. It seems to be time, since "on and on" is repeated throughout much of the song and backing vocals.
Tl;dr it's a story of two people who accept their flaws together, as their flaws are what make them who they are. They are skeletons, together for eternity. It's a morbid sort of wedding vow, I think.