Ancestors Under Neon Dust

Verse

Rooftop concrete, warm through my soles

Taxi rank glow paints the wall gold

Bassline climbs up through the pipes

Same heartbeat my grandfather told

Streetlight scatters like fine red sand

Falling soft on lifted hands

Every step stirs up the ground

Old feet moving where I stand

Pre-Chorus

Feel them rise up off the tar

Feel them ride the strobe like stars

Skin remembers what the drum remembers

Close but far

Chorus

Ancestors under neon dust

Ancestors under neon dust

Dancing where the light meets us

Ancestors under neon dust

Verse

Warehouse windows, broken glow

Shadows move where the speakers throw

Grandmother's rhythm in my hip

Never left, I just didn't know

Sirens hum beneath the bass

Township lights on my face

Every crowd becomes a circle

Holding what won't erase

Pre-Chorus

Feel them rise up off the tar

Feel them ride the strobe like stars

Skin remembers what the drum remembers

Close but far

Chorus

Ancestors under neon dust

Ancestors under neon dust

Dancing where the light meets us

Ancestors under neon dust

Bridge

Not ghosts, it's rhythm

Not gone, it's grown

Every hand that ever moved here

Living on in bone

The city keeps their footprints

Under every flickering sign

Every beat that lifts this rooftop

Pulls them back to mine

Chorus

Ancestors under neon dust

Ancestors under neon dust

Dancing where the light meets us

Ancestors under neon dust