Skeletons by Finn Hansbury

My closet’s full of sweaters
That he looks better in
I wish he’d throw a fashion show
So every single fiber smells like him
Would it be enough?

I take a hundred pictures
That I’ve already seen
I photograph him when he’s laughing
Like it’s not carved into my memory
Will it be enough?

He’s fiery, he’s scorched my skin
His flame’s one in a million
And I will let him burn me limb to limb
Feels like heaven, feels like sin
Our time already paper thin
We light a match and watch our bones give in
No matter how much he will pull me in
This love is dead, we’re just two skeletons

We never thought that we would
Fall so suddenly
We landed in an open casket,
Dug our grave, and laid there, interweaved
Could it be enough?
It could never be enough

He’s fiery, he’s scorched my skin
His flame’s one in a million
And I will let him burn me limb to limb
Feels like heaven, feels like sin
Our time already paper thin
We light a match and watch our bones give in
No matter how much he will pull me in
This love is dead, we’re just two skeletons

He tastes so bittersweet
He knows he’s eating me away
I’m down to nothing
He’s exposed my flesh, my soul
And I will settle in a heap
When I have to set him free
It’s him I won’t stop loving
Weeping till the willows run their money

I know the cost of loving him
That time will do us in
I know we’ll fade into the gray
And masquerade as lonely mannequins
But I only want to be a skeleton