Chorus skeleton boy/how’d you rattle up this heart of mine?/skeleton boy/how’d my soul get so constricted by this/skeleton boy/I’ve got shackles round my next so blue/skeleton boy/I will sink down to the dirt for you
V1 you say you love me tender/I say you’re cold December/I need your love/like I need cancer/yeah/return to sender/I am the burning embers/a heat you’ll soon remember/I give you ice/ inside I cut like knives/and I intend to/provide you absolution/absolve you all your sins/I’m six feet deep/so if you think of me/please think again/I ain't no necromancer/don’t owe you no more life/I’d have given you my everything/would have stopped the world and time/and I’ve been there when the darkness sets in/and I’ve been there when the night don’t shine bright/but you/threw it all away/good luck to you/I give you hindsight/despite this hell/I wish you well/I wish nothing less/f**k that I lied/I am skeletal man/and I wish you death
V2 truth be told/I think I love you still/I walk alone/this lonely road/I walk along/I know don’t f**king lead to Rome/I’m locked in my convictions/there’s death behind these whispers/I hear the breeze/it speaks to me/it speaks in tones/sinister/a ghostly plane/like I can see the ghostly flames/that flickers in this dimension/that I can no more obtain/I am the newly broken/the underworld’s betrothen/the name you do not say no more/the new unspoken/but the times don’t change and the outcome don’t too/f**k then again/I should never showed you/inside/should have told you/what effect that you had on my soul too/despite this hell/I wish you well/I wish nothing less/f**k that/I lied again/skeletal man/I wish you death
V3 spit them bars to rip up your defences/this woman just played with my senses/you don’t wanna be there when I set in/and kick back in to deliver the ending/trust me/I land like a feline/play dead/while/while in the meantime/in my grave/throwin' up peace signs/look hard/girl/read/between these lines/I bide my time/while I am waiting here to strike/waiting here to bite/like a snake within your sight/follow me as I lead you darling/in the dance of the necromancer/the dead rise up for me/I am skeletal man/your master