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SKIN TO BONE

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“SKIN TO BONE” is the ninth track off of Linkin Park’s fifth studio album LIVING THINGS.

In an interview for the album, Chester Bennington talked about how certain tracks started out as folk songs and cited “SKIN TO BONE” as an example of the change. Brad Delson also stated something similar in an interview with MusicRadar in 2012:

“SKIN TO BONE” has it and “CASTLE OF GLASS” has it. I listened to a lot of those old folk songs for song structure, and I found that the A sections have the meat, and B is like a bridge or a departure and then you come back to the A; whereas in pop radio or hip-hop or rock for the most part these days, it’s like the verse is always serving the chorus – the second thing is the hook. The songs are structurally and inherently more of a folk form.

The song has never been played live on its own before and is one of the most unpopular tracks on LIVING THINGS, merely beating three other tracks on the album in Spotify streams.

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