To The Bone - LIVE - The Kinks - To The Bone

To The Bone - LIVE - from The Kinks album- To The Bone - stereo mix, recorded Mar-Apr 1996 at Konk Studios, Hornsey, London

To The Bone

Written by: Ray Davies
Published by: Davray Music Ltd.

In the back of a record rack 

There's a old double pack

Twelve inches and black 

With an old crumpled cover

But every track is stacked



And it takes me back 

To the one who caused this melancholy mood

And every single groove

Cuts me to the bone

Yeah, she rocks me to the bone


I took her back to my bachelor flat

While the stereo played for two

She unwrapped her gift 

And played me a riff

And said, "this old record was just made for you"



Then we danced to songs of passion and 

The singer's velvet tones

On the gramaphone 

While the record played

She rocks me to the bone

Knocks me to the bone



Those those rock n' roll romantic songs

Played all summer long

And she rocks me to the bone

Knocks me to the bone.



Yeah, she rocks me to the bone

Yeah, she rocks me to the bone



In dreams she's smiling in slow motion 

Devouring all of my emotion

Angels singing rock 'n' roll 

While demons take away my soul



Voices sound, her image fades

Every time that record plays

She rocks me to the bone

Knocks me to the bone



In my back room there's an old 45
That we played all summer long

Shakin the beams so loud it covered up the screams

When lover's harmony went oh so wrong



And in every word emotion is torn

And blood flows down the drain 

Like she opened up a vein

And cut me to the bone

Yeah, she rocks me to the bone



And now i'm just a prisoner 

In that stereo Hi-Fi jail 

The needle pierced just like a nail 

As she rocks me to the bone

Knocks me to the bone



Do do do do do do do

She rocks me to the bone



Yeah, she rocks me to the bone

Yeah, she rocks me to the bone

Produced by: Ray Davies

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[davlinful]

Ray said that the original title for this song was "12 inches and black" so he thought he ought to change it !!

[Ferdybroom]

agree with ladybrite1, a hidden gem of a song. Ray Davies can tackle everything from comic to satire to the sinister and dark, like this song. Makes my flesh crawl, we possibly all had a relationship like that at some stage in our lives.

[Slumpnasty]

Very good.

[add2718]

Thanks so much for uploading this song! Previously I had only found a poor quality video of it, this is so much better. Incredible song!

[Ladybrite1]

This is one on those Kinks songs that you rarely hear. Thanks for posting it.

LOVE THE KINKS and YOU TUBE for the chance to hear them. Can't even find this CD.