Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Skeletons

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  Song Meaning:I saw the video and she's a ghost in a graveyard, so she's definitely talking about herself being dead to her loved ones

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  General Comment:HOLY MOLY!!! I FIGURED IT OUT
  
  Fall asleep then....
  When you spin the sky in a dream its because your trying to stay in your lucid state in the dream meaning you want to stay aware that your dreaming in the dream while dreaming the dream.
  
  So she's saying although I died remember me!
  Their love on earth ended cause she died. "Love don't cry" hence her death brings him grief.
  
  I know cause something similar with me.
  
  It was on the tip of my mind and I finally figured it out!!!!!
  Its really awesome.
  
  Frost or flame - meaning am I your flame (twin flame/other half) or frost (cold person in the world another regular person)

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  General Comment:HOLY MOLY!!! I FIGURED IT OUT
  
  Fall asleep then....
  When you spin the sky in a dream its because your trying to stay in your lucid state in the dream meaning you want to stay aware that your dreaming in the dream while dreaming the dream.
  
  So she's saying although I died remember me!
  Their love on earth ended cause she died. "Love don't cry" hence her death brings him grief.
  
  I know cause something similar with me.
  
  It was on the tip of my mind and I finally figured it out!!!!!
  Its really awesome.
  
  Frost or flame - meaning am I your flame (twin flame/other half) or frost (cold person in the world another regular person)

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  General Comment:I think the lyrics could be:
  
  "Frost o'er flame"
  
  with the implication that the frost overcomes the flame? That is that the love for the other person dies and is instead replaced with coldness.
  
  Anyone's thoughts?

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  General Comment:I also thought that "skeleton" was used as a verb here.
  
  I think the relationship has already ended and she's telling him to skeleton her (pretend she's gone forever, strip his emotional connection, etc.)
  
  I think she's telling him to let go, relax, and move on.

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  General Comment:This guy is haunting her "skeleton me," he spins the sky in his sleep to look for her spirit. Maybe its a fictional song about a woman who died and is telling her lover that he shouldn't cry and that he can look for her in spirit cause she is dead. Since the song sounds eery like that made its about a longing after someone whose died. In the video she is haunting her own grave, so perhaps they haunt each other, I say "haunt" for lack of better terms.

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  General Comment:I think "skeleton" is used as a verb here. Meaning, shatter my walls, make me bear, tear me open, leave me vulnerable. Skeleton me.

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  General Comment:to me, this song is about anorexia
  i suffer from it every day, and the words in this song perfectly describe it
  
  frost or flame, being a bone thin skeleton is all that matters to me
  
  fall asleep, spin the sky.. this reminds of what its like to try and relax, im always dizzy.. theres always a constant rush in my head from being dizzy.
  
  and yeah, i love this song so fucking much
  
  

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  General Comment:to me, this song is about anorexia
  i suffer from it every day, and the words in this song perfectly describe it
  
  frost or flame, being a bone thin skeleton is all that matters to me
  
  fall asleep, spin the sky.. this reminds of what its like to try and relax, im always dizzy.. theres always a constant rush in my head from being dizzy.
  
  and yeah, i love this song so fucking much
  
  

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  General Comment:this song is really good the beat everything about it especially the meaning of it... i think the meaning of it is about death but shes singing about everything is better shes not in anymore pain (sadness)...and her loved ones not too cry about it but i may be wrong thats just my opinion... :)

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