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Skeleton

By Hawk Nelson

3 views Sep 18, 2026 updated Verified editorial review

Song Meaning

Hawk Nelson's "Skeleton" opens with a confession of inward entanglement — security "wrapped up like knots inside of me" — and a plea to finally come clean. The singer notices the sorrow behind a friend's smiling disguise and refuses to keep playing that game, then names the universal condition: everyone carries a secret, and friends often help bury it rather than bring it into the light. The chorus turns that observation into a personal cry, admitting to being nothing but a skeleton without the one being addressed. The second verse sharpens the image into self-imposed prison, a body of bones locked inside secrecy, with the honest recognition that truth is what sets a person free and a desperate request for a cure to the disease. The bridge confesses the exhausting loop of running circles inside one's own head, too afraid to reveal who one really is, and the repeated closing chant — wanting to be no skeleton — becomes a refusal to stay hollow. The song treats hidden sin not as private business but as something that inevitably finds you out, and it places relationship, not willpower, at the center of the way out.
Lyrics Verified by Editorial Team

Oh my security..
wrapped up like knots inside of me am I ever coming clean?
I see the sorrow in your eyes
Your smile is a very sad disguise
I cannot play that game tonight

Don’t ya know?
We all have a secret,
We have friends, who try to keep them,
I’m just a skeleton without.. you now

My own imprisonment, just like the skeleton inside,
I know the truth will set me free,
Locked in my Secrecy, I can’t comfy to me,
Show me a cure for my disease!!

Don’t ya know?
We all have a secret
We have friends who try to keep them
Don’t ya know your sins will find you out..
I’m a man, a man with a problem,
I need you around so I can solve them,
I’m just a skeleton without.. you now

I’ve been running in circles around my head,
To scared to tell you who I am,
Like a heartless Gallatin..

Don’t ya know?
We all have a secret
We have friends who try to keep them
Don’t ya know your sins will find you out…
I’m a man, a man with a problem,
I need you around so I can solve them,
I’m just a skeleton without.. you now!!!!

(I want to be no skeleton!)
(I want to be no skeleton!)
(I want to be no skeleton!)
(I want to be no skeleton!)
You now!!!
(I want to be no skeleton!)
(I want to be no skeleton!)
You now!!
(I want to be no skeleton!)
(I want to be no skeleton!)

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