Skeletons

Steven Malcolm's "Skeletons" opens with a confession of coldness and emptiness, then pulls the listener into the closet where the dark past is stored. The song is blunt about the gap between profession and practice: a man who calls himself God-fearing admits he is a "fiend for admiration" and a slave to fornication, turning to women for love and attention while his actions look nothing like his faith. The chorus frames the whole struggle as a plea—life full of rain, all he knows is pain, empty out and tell me what remain. In the verses he refuses to dress it up as a formal confession; he calls it simply a man sharing his struggles and wiping away rubble, and he asks the hard question of how he can be faithful to a wife if he can't be faithful to Christ. The closing lines trace a specific failure: a relationship pursued, a ring and a church, effort to make it work, and then betrayal. The song doesn't resolve into victory; it sits in the tension of wanting God's Spirit to be at work while feeling cold and dead, and it ends with the honest wreckage of self-control rather than a tidy bow.