Verse
Concrete floor over old red clay
Feet find a pulse from a hundred years away
My spine remembers before my mind can try
Marrow keeps time when the drum goes by
Knees bend low like the ones before me
Dust on my ankles, the floor telling stories
Nobody taught me this turn, this sway
It lives in my hips, it never went away
Pre-Chorus
Something older than my own two hands
Wakes up slow, then it understands
Every joint in me starts to hum
Bones remember where the rhythm's from
Chorus
Bones remember the rhythm
Skin just carries the sound
Bones remember the rhythm
Long after we're gone from this ground
Bones remember the rhythm
Verse
Warehouse walls where the water pipes hiss
Elbows, shoulders moving like this
My grandmother's laugh in my own throat
Marrow humming a borrowed note
Sweat on the collarbone, salt on the tongue
The body keeps singing what the mouth left unsung
Every rib cage holding a hidden drum
Waiting for midnight, waiting to come
Pre-Chorus
Something older than my own two hands
Wakes up slow, then it understands
Every joint in me starts to hum
Bones remember where the rhythm's from
Chorus
Bones remember the rhythm
Skin just carries the sound
Bones remember the rhythm
Long after we're gone from this ground
Bones remember the rhythm
Bridge
Long after the amps go quiet
Long after the last light dims
Something stays inside the marrow
Passing on, passing on through skin
I feel it move from my mother's mother
Down through me to whoever's next
Nobody taught this, nobody wrote this
It just lives in the flesh
Chorus
Bones remember the rhythm
Skin just carries the sound
Bones remember the rhythm
Long after we're gone from this ground
Bones remember the rhythm
