Bones
Embracing Pain: A Journey Through Fragility
Lyrics
I don't want to be crippled and cracked
Desire to avoid being physically and emotionally damaged
Shoulders and wrists, knees and back
List of body parts expressing vulnerability and fragility
Ground to dust and ash
Metaphor for destruction and decay, life turning to ruin
Crawling on all fours
Symbolic representation of extreme hardship and submission
When you've got to feel it in your bones
Emphasizing the need for a deep, intrinsic understanding or realization
When you've got to feel it in your bones
Reiteration of the importance of feeling something profoundly
Now I can't climb the stairs
Inability to overcome obstacles or challenges
Pieces missing everywhere
Suggesting a sense of fragmentation and incompleteness
Prozac painkillers
Reference to medication as a coping mechanism for emotional pain
When you've got to feel it in your bones
Reiteration of the necessity to deeply experience or understand
When you've got to feel it in your bones
Emphasizing the ongoing importance of profound feelings
I used to fly like Peter Pan
Recollection of a time of freedom and innocence
All the children flew when I touched their hands
Symbolizing positive influence and connection with others
See, you've got to feel it in your bones
Restating the necessity of deep, intrinsic understanding
See, you've got to feel it in your bones
Reiterating the ongoing importance of profound feelings
Ah-ah-ah
Repeating a vocalization, possibly representing emotion or pain
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