I really think the third verse is the kicker. I guess I kind of see “you” as the song, as his mind when he’s writing and just sort of how well music describes and relates to pain (“so I try my best to see how you can relate to so much grief”). And just wondering why it is that his mind is almost attracted to that grief and uses it as a cornerstone for creating music – with that whole idea of the beauty in tragedy. But then it also hints at the solace that writing and listening to music offer (“another skeleton song will save my life tonight”) as well as the grand scale that it touches people on who are going through the pain he’s been through and is writing about (“a different face but on the same page”).
As far at the primary symbolism, skeleton – I take it as meaning bare and stripped – as if the song and the writing he does doesn’t have any sort of façade or cryptic meaning that its just out there and real and raw but also that the writing and the songs are universal.
I really think the third verse is the kicker. I guess I kind of see “you” as the song, as his mind when he’s writing and just sort of how well music describes and relates to pain (“so I try my best to see how you can relate to so much grief”). And just wondering why it is that his mind is almost attracted to that grief and uses it as a cornerstone for creating music – with that whole idea of the beauty in tragedy. But then it also hints at the solace that writing and listening to music offer (“another skeleton song will save my life tonight”) as well as the grand scale that it touches people on who are going through the pain he’s been through and is writing about (“a different face but on the same page”).
As far at the primary symbolism, skeleton – I take it as meaning bare and stripped – as if the song and the writing he does doesn’t have any sort of façade or cryptic meaning that its just out there and real and raw but also that the writing and the songs are universal.