Verse
Warehouse floor, the paint half gone
Sweat on the pillars, breath on the glass
Bassline crawling up through the concrete
Finds my ankles, climbs to my ribs
Nobody taught me this exact turn
Someone before me left it in my hip
Streetlight through the broken window burns
Same gold my great aunt used to grip
Pre-Chorus
Feel it rising from the floorboards
Feel it moving through my spine
Every heartbeat is a hallway
Every hallway lets them in
Chorus
My bones know the rhythm
My bones know the rhythm
Long before I learned to move
My bones know the rhythm
Verse
Taxi rank silence, three in the morning
Neon bleeding on the wet tar road
Someone's grandmother hums a warning
Turns into the beat the speaker throws
My collarbone remembers being a drum
My wrist remembers being a door
Hands up now, the ancestors come
Dancing through me to the floor
Pre-Chorus
Feel it rising from the floorboards
Feel it moving through my spine
Every heartbeat is a hallway
Every hallway lets them in
Chorus
My bones know the rhythm
My bones know the rhythm
Long before I learned to move
My bones know the rhythm
Bridge
I didn't learn this from a mirror
I learned it in my mother's chest
Every scar my people carried
Turns to motion, turns to rest
Turns to motion, turns to rest
Chorus
My bones know the rhythm
My bones know the rhythm
Long before I learned to move
My bones know the rhythm
