Conversations fade   People moving out slow   Hey, here's one for the record   One for the road   You can stand on your soapbox all alone   You can have the flesh, but please leave me the bones      Some call it gold   Some call it dross   Some say I'm saved   Some say I'm lost   So I say in the most respectful tone   "You can have the flesh, but please leave me the bones"      Making those records for the company team   Pull the shiny knob of the vending machine   Do your best to play the hand that's thrown   Help yourself to the flesh   Please leave me the bones      A touch of your love makes my heart full   Every lonely note reminds me of you   Am I looking for heaven inside this drone?   You can take the flesh, but please leave me the bones      When the rhymes were wrapped at all   Cadences car crash on the retaining wall   Come, Holy Spirit   Purify this soul   You can have the flesh   Please leave me the bones