Verse
Nineteen floors above the taxi rank
Glass and steel where the elders sank
Into the beat through the speaker wire
Grandmother's hips in my own two feet
City lights like a thousand fires
Rising up where the smoke retires
Somebody's spirit moving through the crowd
I feel the old ones singing loud
Pre-Chorus
They climb the stairs behind my ribs
Riding the bassline, filling my hips
This rooftop breathing, this rooftop wide
Ancestors dancing on either side
Chorus
Ancestors at the rooftop bar
Under the same old northern star
They never left, they just came far
Ancestors at the rooftop bar
Verse
Ice in the glass and gold in the sky
Uncle's laughter in the wind gone by
Every skyline holds a hundred names
Every heartbeat carries what remains
Waitress moving like she knows the song
Something ancient telling her along
The city hums where the towers sway
Grandfather's rhythm won't fade away
Pre-Chorus
They climb the stairs behind my ribs
Riding the bassline, filling my hips
This rooftop breathing, this rooftop wide
Ancestors dancing on either side
Chorus
Ancestors at the rooftop bar
Under the same old northern star
They never left, they just came far
Ancestors at the rooftop bar
Bridge
I pour a little out for the ones who came
Water on concrete, whisper their name
No goodbye needed, no ending here
Just my body moving, they're always near
Chorus
Ancestors at the rooftop bar
Under the same old northern star
They never left, they just came far
Ancestors at the rooftop bar
