Verse
Corrugated iron warm beneath my heels
Water tank humming a low steady tone
Washing line flags catching first light
Township waking, but I'm not alone
Verse
Bass climbs up through the steel below
Static and drum from the tower speaker
City still sleeping in the valley of smoke
My chest gets louder, my breath gets deeper
Pre-Chorus
Do I feel them in the wind now
Do I feel them in my spine
Rooftop turning into altar
Every heartbeat keeping time
Chorus
This is where the ancestors dance
This is where the ancestors dance
Feet on the tin roof
Sun climbing my hands
This is where the ancestors dance
Verse
Shadows stretch long off the water tank
Pigeons scatter when the drop comes round
Grandmother's rhythm in my ankle bones
Rising up through borrowed ground
Verse
Neighbors climbing up the fire escape
Circle widens as the light gets gold
Same roof where my uncles used to gather
Same sky holding all we hold
Pre-Chorus
Do I feel them in the wind now
Do I feel them in my spine
Rooftop turning into altar
Every heartbeat keeping time
Chorus
This is where the ancestors dance
This is where the ancestors dance
Feet on the tin roof
Sun climbing my hands
This is where the ancestors dance
Bridge
I used to think the sky was empty
Just wires and smoke and static air
Now I know it's full of voices
Dancing in the morning glare
Pass it down through moving shoulders
Pass it down, it lives right here
Chorus
This is where the ancestors dance
This is where the ancestors dance
Feet on the tin roof
Sun climbing my hands
This is where the ancestors dance
