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.
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.