r/coheed's Song of the Day #57: When Skeletons Live

I dig this song hard. When Skeletons Live feels like a grown up version of a song that didn't make it onto Second Stage Turbine Blade. The opening to the song, most notably the guitar right after the drums mixed with the synth, makes me feel like I'm playing Sonic Adventure 2. This song has a great scream in it. I love the chorus. The lyrics are great. Its top 4 on the album for sure.

The Fiction- songmeanings: I think this song covers the final stages of Hohenberger's development of the Monstar virus. Hence "give us the monstar" being repeated. But i think it also covers the span of Hohenberger turning Knowledge and Beast over to Ryan after using the safe word, which leads to them being essentially nothing but skeletons. In doing so, the doctor gave Ryan the Monstar; as well as his and Pearl's respective deaths. Both had skeletons living in their closets. But the "When skeletons live" part could also be Inferno beginning his attack on House Atlantic by repeating the safe word and bringing Knowledge and Beast back to consciousness.

The Real- Seems like Claudio's writing about people who wish they'd go back to their old style. That could be the skeletons. they live, because music is always able to be replayed, but they as a band have moved forward stylistically. He fears no one will hear them sing their songs, aka, their new material, because skeletons live in their closet. Boom. Nailed it.

The Part- I gotta go with the "GIVE US THE MONSTER" scream. So cool. Is that Mic?