Skeletons
Appears in 2 songs
“The skeletons in both our closets plotted against us”
Skeletons as concealed pasts taking on agency, the cliché of closet skeletons literalised and animated, buried secrets turned conspiratorial characters. Both parties carry equal concealment; the skeletons of their separate pasts work against the relationship's future.
“And the skeletons in both our closets Plotted hard to fuck this up”
The skeletons represent both characters' past indiscretions, lies, and the ways they've cheated others, the accumulated history of deception that now threatens to undermine a genuine relationship.
“I'd meet you where the spirit meets the bones”
Bones represent the physical remains of the dead, what is left after the spirit has departed. The image places the meeting between the lovers at the site of death, in the grave where only bones remain.