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
