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Bonescraper Lyrics
Gold
This house of gold is crumbling
Bones
We scrape our bones to numb the pain
Love is just a loaded
Love is just a loaded gun
Love is just a loaded gun
Compromise will get you nowhere
Arguments and pointless warfare
The price of love is the price of heartache
Your tongue a knife pointing every mistake
Angels and devils cry
Tears across the bridge of sighs
These demons, addictions
Chaos we've sewn
Gold
This house of gold is crumbling
Bones
We scrape our bones to numb the pain
Surgical scalpels hone and scrape skin from bone
Scraping skin from bone
Love is just a loaded gun
Love is just a loaded gun
Bridges burning in the wake of madness
You left me yearning with the taste of sadness
Bury me down in a bed of clover
Just leave me be, this is done, it's over
The ghost that you've become
Shadows of a love undone
These demons, addictions
Chaos we've sewn
Gold
This house of gold is crumbling
Bones
We scrape our bones to numb the pain
Surgical scalpels hone and scrape skin from bone
Scraping skin from bone
Love is just a loaded gun
Love is just a loaded gun
When you try to put me down
You left me broken on the ground
I know that I'm the one to blame
You always cast your guilt and shame
A million cuts of malice
The cruelty is the point
She drinks the devil's chalice
His love you do anoint
A eulogy and elegy for death's repose
Scraping our bones
Gold
This house of gold is crumbling
Bones
We scrape our bones to numb the pain
Gold
This house of gold is crumbling
Bones
We scrape our bones to numb the pain
Surgical scalpels hone and scrape skin from bone
Scraping skin from bone
Love is just a loaded gun
Love is just a loaded gun
Love is just a loaded gun
Love is just a loaded gun
This house of gold is crumbling
Bones
We scrape our bones to numb the pain
Love is just a loaded gun
Love is just a loaded gun
Arguments and pointless warfare
The price of love is the price of heartache
Your tongue a knife pointing every mistake
Tears across the bridge of sighs
Chaos we've sewn
This house of gold is crumbling
Bones
We scrape our bones to numb the pain
Surgical scalpels hone and scrape skin from bone
Scraping skin from bone
Love is just a loaded gun
You left me yearning with the taste of sadness
Bury me down in a bed of clover
Just leave me be, this is done, it's over
Shadows of a love undone
Chaos we've sewn
This house of gold is crumbling
Bones
We scrape our bones to numb the pain
Surgical scalpels hone and scrape skin from bone
Scraping skin from bone
Love is just a loaded gun
Love is just a loaded gun
You left me broken on the ground
I know that I'm the one to blame
You always cast your guilt and shame
The cruelty is the point
She drinks the devil's chalice
His love you do anoint
A eulogy and elegy for death's repose
Scraping our bones
This house of gold is crumbling
Bones
We scrape our bones to numb the pain
This house of gold is crumbling
Bones
We scrape our bones to numb the pain
Surgical scalpels hone and scrape skin from bone
Scraping skin from bone
Love is just a loaded gun
Love is just a loaded gun
Love is just a loaded gun
Song Info
Copyright
Lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Writer
Robb Flynn
Duration
3:33
Submitted by
kingofstilport On Jul 04, 2025
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According to Robb Flynn, this song is "for those of us with darkness in our heart, a song about love lost, and a song for those who fail at love... but keep on trying… hence, we scrape our bones to numb the pain." The act of scraping the bones means that pain from love lost runs deep, down to the bone, and you have to scrape away the pain. He also added that the lyrics emerged partly from witnessing divorces among close friends during the pandemic and seeing how relationships break down emotionally.