Dawn Ritual, Dancing Bones (version 2)

Verse

Courtyard concrete, bones still stiff

Cockerel calling past the tin roof line

Water tower drips its rusted gift

Onto shoulders waking up on time

Elbows crack like kindling in the cold

Knees remember roads I've never walked

Someone hums the songs the market sold

Long before these hands could learn to talk

Pre-Chorus

Feel it moving through the shoulder

Feel it waking in the knee

Every bone a door left open

Every door lets something free

Chorus

Dancing bones, dawn breaking

Dancing bones, dust waking

Something old is shaking loose in me

Dancing bones, dawn breaking

Verse

Barefoot on the washed-out concrete square

Steam is rising off the vendor's pan

Spine unrolls like smoke into the air

Carrying the weight of every gran

Hips remember dances lost to time

Ribs hold rhythm nobody wrote down

Sun climbs up behind the water line

Waking every sleeping street in town

Pre-Chorus

Feel it moving through the shoulder

Feel it waking in the knee

Every bone a door left open

Every door lets something free

Chorus

Dancing bones, dawn breaking

Dancing bones, dust waking

Something old is shaking loose in me

Dancing bones, dawn breaking

Bridge

Marrow keeps the count the drum forgot

Fingers find the beat before the thought

Grandfather's shuffle in my ankle bone

This body was never mine alone

Chorus

Dancing bones, dawn breaking

Dancing bones, dust waking

Something old is shaking loose in me

Dancing bones, dawn breaking