“bones on the beach”

by Paris Paloma is a poetic meditation on longing for rest and peace, using the imagery of becoming bones washed up on the shore. The narrator imagines finally feeling restful-something not experienced since the womb-by lying undisturbed between stones and the sea. The song contrasts the desire for oblivion with the realization that death may not bring the peace hoped for, repeating the refrain “death won’t bring what you think it will.