Verse
Palms find leather, worn and warm
Drum skin tight before the storm
Wrist goes loose after the tenth turn
Heat in the hand where the calluses burn
Sweat drops down to where the rhythm sits
Fingers stop counting, body just hits
Ten strikes deep and the ache goes soft
Hands forget the ground, keep reaching up and off
Pre-Chorus
Let the sting fade, let it blur
Skin on skin, no beat’s a stir
Palms gone numb but they won’t stop
Body plays where the mind gives up
Chorus
Skin on the beat
Hands don’t feel it, hands don’t feel it
Skin on the beat
Play right through it, play right through it
Skin on the beat
Palms and leather, one long heat
Skin on the beat
Rise up, rise up, rise up on the beat
Verse
Shoulders drop where the arms once shook
Muscle knows what the mind mistook
Twelve rounds in and the sound gets wide
Body’s the drummer, the hands just ride
Callus cracks where the rhythm bites
Bone keeps time past the falling light
Hands go slack but the beat stays true
Skin remembers what the will can't do
Pre-Chorus
Let the sting fade, let it blur
Skin on skin, no beat’s a stir
Palms gone numb but they won’t stop
Body plays where the mind gives up
Chorus
Skin on the beat
Hands don’t feel it, hands don’t feel it
Skin on the beat
Play right through it, play right through it
Skin on the beat
Palms and leather, one long heat
Skin on the beat
Rise up, rise up, rise up on the beat
Bridge
No more hands, no more skin
Just the pulse where the beat begins
Nowhere left the ache can hide
Body opens, lets the drum inside
Chorus
Skin on the beat
Hands don’t feel it, hands don’t feel it
Skin on the beat
Play right through it, play right through it
Skin on the beat
Palms and leather, one long heat
Skin on the beat
Rise up, rise up, rise up on the beat
