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Bones Don't Rust

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Bones Don't Rust
Bleed Out

Album

Bleed Out

Released

August 19, 2022

Length

2:25

Previous Track

"Extraction Point"

Next Track

"First Blood"

Bones Don't Rust is the fifth song on Bleed Out.

Lyrics[]

Never any call for a lone wolf
You have to learn to go with the flow
But they can find a use for a scarecrow
Depending on your stomach for crows
Always gonna need a little muscle
If you prove yourself worthy of trust
Your bones don't rust

Haven't checked a mirror in years
Don't need to know the bad news
There's not gonna be a gold watch
After thirty years of paying your dues
Show up five minutes early as usual
Work on just a couple hours' rest
Your bones don't rust

They stay hard as diamonds
They cut through steel
They still sing when they're hungry
And they ache when they're angry

Listen for the voice of the spirit
Maybe something wrong with your ears
Always on the edge of collapse now
Absolutely nobody cares
But everybody loves a professional
Not a single track in the dust
Your bones don't rust

Comments by John Darnielle About this Song[]

  • “‘Bones Don't Rust' is sort of a pretty classic spy/action-movie story. And that one, speaking of influences, I feel it's a Stan Ridgway sort of tune in a lot of ways. He's another guy who does a narrator who's telling you a story from inside his world and you have to put the world and the story together from the clues he's dropping. He also plays a lot with genre, especially with spaghetti western stuff and noir tropes; I think this one has a little of both of those. The speaker is somebody who's been in the business of maybe being an assassin, maybe just a guy who breaks people's knees. The guy who comes in and does the dirty work and is now a little on the older side but knows he will be doing this until he drops.” via https://music.apple.com/us/album/bleed-out/1622211546

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