“SKIN TO BONE (Instrumental)” is the ninth track off of LIVING THINGS (Acapellas and Instrumentals). It is also featured as the ninth track off of LIVING THINGS.

Chester Bennington said that many songs off of LIVING THINGS had started out as “hippie folk songs,” citing “SKIN TO BONE” as an example. Brad Delson would further elaborate on this folk influence in a 2012 interview:

I should also mention with the folk songs, one of our goals as Linkin Park was, “What can we do to make it relevant?” Rick really challenged us: “Well, if it has a folk DNA and you just present it as a folk song, that’s not adding anything to the conversation.” So with “SKIN TO BONE,” for example, none of those sounds are folk sounds, and what makes it interesting to me is the juxtaposition of the arrangement versus the identity of what that song is. I think that’s what makes it unique.