We have already established that Bones is autistic. She doesn't really understand emotions or psychology, humans have been a mystery to her ever since she was little.
This is why she started studying anthropology. Maybe if she could connect to the human experience, if she understood every culture and knew how we used to be, maybe she could understand humans now. If she could understand how we were, she would understand how we are. She doesn't trust psychology or emotions because people can lie; her parents showed her that. The bones don't lie to her, she can understand how people lived and died, but she can never find out why.
She has incredible amounts of knowledge about humans, the way we behave and the reasons we came to be, but the body could never tell her why. She became an anthropologist so she could relate to people, maybe if she studied people hard enough she could become one of them. If she read enough books, took enough classes and studied enough lives, maybe she could connect to others. The Autistic Experience, if you will. But she couldn't. No amount of studying could tell her why.
Booth taught her how to love, he taught her that you don't need an answer to everything. There is a mystery to life.
Angela taught her how to live, how to take it easy and allow yourself to have fun without feeling like you don't belong.
Cam taught her that no matter how many people think appearances are everything, they are just that. Appearances.
Sweets taught her that there is no single human experience, her life doesn't need to be lived by the books.
Zack taught her that even the smartest people can be wrong, even the smartest people have faults in their logic.
All of the people in her life taught her something that she couldn't learn from studying. You can't rationalise the human experience and you don't need to. She might not understand humans the way that she has always longed to, she can still experience what it's like to be connected and loved.
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OH i have strong ideas about this . the lead singer of TMG is catholic and their music is FULL of catholic imagery (every song from The Life of The World To Come is named after a bible verse- my fav song from that album is hebrews 11:40 i fucking love that song) !! and a lot of their music focuses on survival, recovery, shitty pasts, and addiction so . VERY booth . this turned into deep booth character analysis through TMG so it's below the cut since it's long as hell
cotton: this is one of the top three songs of all time for me and is sooo booth-coded to me.
this song is for the soil / that's toxic clear down to the bedrock : booth thinks there's something fundamentally wrong with him because of his childhood. he is terrified of becoming his father and continuing that cycle of abuse
this song is for the people / who tell their families that they're sorry / for things they can't and won't feel sorry for : booth has... a lot of guilt engrained within him. he needs to make things right for everyone, needs to make sure that he is perfect and can never hurt anyone again. he feels the need to fix things he hasn't even done, make up for things he couldn't help but do.
this song is for the cars / that are right now headed silent down the highway / and it's dark and there is nobody driving / and something has got to give : this lyric reminds me a lot of young booth- hurtling toward something dangerous, knowing that really, the only way for this to stop is for either him or his father to die. something has got to give, and it's going to be him.
genesis 30:3 : this song is soooo booth being in love with brennan and loving her no matter what, wanting to do the best for her because she does the best for him.
talked about the days they said were sure to come / had a hard time believing : both of them grew up accepting that they were never really going to be happy. brennan believed she'd never be in love, and booth accepted that he'd never get to be with the woman he loved. this line specifically feels like late season 6 b&b to me, post hannah breakup but pre b&b getting together, in that weird sad self aware era (which is where we get some of my favourite b&b moments ever- blackout in the blizzard my BELOVED)
for several hours we lay there, the last ones of our kind / harder days coming, maybe i don't mind : the two of them find peace together once they *finally* stop chasing each other down. they know their lives are both hard, they know there will still be pain and hurt, but they love each other, and that's enough for now.
open up the promise of the day / drive the dark things away / i will do what you ask me to do / because of how i feel about you : booth would literally do anything to see brennan smile, to heal her from all the hurt she's experienced. she showed him what love and joy and safety felt like, and he wants her to feel the same. he would without a doubt, do anything for her.
spent gladiator 2 : this song is angry booth. it's his trauma, his hurt. the anger and betrayal he tries to keep inside of him but just... can't.
like a spent gladiator / crawling through the dust / who can count on his remaining limbs / all the people he can trust : booth really has never had anyone in his life. before brennan, the only people in his life he could genuinely trust to care about him were probably his pops and cam. he almost feels like he deserves it- like this is who he is, like it's his job to be alone and be hurt.
like someone who's found a small town to escape to / keeps one eye on his abandoned former self : even when he's started to heal (or... "heal"- sure, he isn't so outwardly angry, but he's not happy), he is terrified of becoming that person again. he's terrified of going back to that dark place, where he didn't care about anyone, because he really didn't care about himself.
stay in the game / just try to play through the pain : booth will never express his emotions, or let them get in the way of his work. he's always fine, no matter how miserable he is. he's always had to work through the pain, just live through it, because acknowledging it wouldn't make it stop, it'd just make it more real.
