I also think it's about the end of a relationship, specifically about what's left of her after relationships have ended; a fragile skeleton of what she was.
The first few lines seem to suggest that no matter how her relationships end, they always leave her in the same state, "Love left dry / frost or flame / skeleton me". Whether by having a relationship burn out in a passionate blaze or slowly freeze over, she's always left as this skeleton.
Then the next few lines seem to be about why she retreats into this skeleton of herself, and how she deals with it. "Fall asleep / Spin the sky / Skeleton me" - we can collapse and abandon our lives while we try to cope with loss, but time will keep progressing. The Earth will continue rotating around the Sun, and so the sky will keep on spinning for us. We can sleep, cry, dry our eyes, and eventually life will return to our battered skeletons once again.
"Love, don't go / Love, don't cry" could be a lonely refusal to believe what has happened, or maybe it suggests that we don't have to lose all the love once shared when relationships end - maybe friendship can still bloom from the cinders and bones.
I love the clacking drumsticks that're slowly introduced as the song progresses - really evokes the hollow brittleness of a skeleton. What a great song... so sad, but I love it. :)
I also think it's about the end of a relationship, specifically about what's left of her after relationships have ended; a fragile skeleton of what she was.
The first few lines seem to suggest that no matter how her relationships end, they always leave her in the same state, "Love left dry / frost or flame / skeleton me". Whether by having a relationship burn out in a passionate blaze or slowly freeze over, she's always left as this skeleton.
Then the next few lines seem to be about why she retreats into this skeleton of herself, and how she deals with it. "Fall asleep / Spin the sky / Skeleton me" - we can collapse and abandon our lives while we try to cope with loss, but time will keep progressing. The Earth will continue rotating around the Sun, and so the sky will keep on spinning for us. We can sleep, cry, dry our eyes, and eventually life will return to our battered skeletons once again.
"Love, don't go / Love, don't cry" could be a lonely refusal to believe what has happened, or maybe it suggests that we don't have to lose all the love once shared when relationships end - maybe friendship can still bloom from the cinders and bones.
I love the clacking drumsticks that're slowly introduced as the song progresses - really evokes the hollow brittleness of a skeleton. What a great song... so sad, but I love it. :)