Skin Remembers 5

Verse

Bare feet in the sand at Idanre Peak

Cedar smoke on my neck from Grandpa's creek

Mother's hands call out across the square

Come eat before you walk the market air

Dust of cassava settling on my tongue

Every step I take, skin remembers one

Grown now but still that river in my chest

I'll find my way back where love first blessed

Pre-Chorus

Who can I call when the sun starts to dip

Where is home if not under grandma's rip?

Skin keeps what heart forgets

Follow your own compass yet

Chorus

Skin remembers, skin holds the key

Walk these streets and the past just finds me

Nothing leaves but the light it left behind

I keep walking till I come around in time

Verse

Bare feet on the water at Idanre Peak

Salt and sand, that's where my story speaks

Mother's hands call out across the shore

You're still a child running for more

Every step I take, skin holds the past

Not what you think but what your body casts

Dust of cassava settling on my tongue

Home is not the place but every song

Pre-Chorus

Who can I call when the sun starts to dip

Where is home if not under grandma's rip?

Skin keeps what heart forgets

Follow your own compass yet

Chorus

Skin remembers, skin holds the key

Walk these streets and the past just finds me

Nothing leaves but the light it left behind

I keep walking till I come around in time

Bridge

No names to tell the road where you've been

Just what the feet remember, nothing unseen

Keep that map etched on your skin so deep

That's how you'll find yourself back home when you creep

Chorus

Skin remembers, skin holds the key

Walk these streets and the past just finds me

Nothing leaves but the light it left behind

I keep walking till I come around in time