Sweat & Salt Sermon (Version 2)

Verse

Collarbone slick where the low end lives

Tongue finds salt like the body forgives

Spine keeps time with the kick drum's law

Shoulders unlatch every bolt and flaw

Knuckles unclench on the count of four

Kneecaps humming against the floor

Throat tilts back for the air to pour

This is the pulpit, this is the door

Pre-Chorus

Let the salt line spell your name

Let the burn turn into flame

Give the body back its say

Preach it out the only way

Chorus

Sweat is the sermon

Rolling down the spine

Sweat is the sermon

Read it line by line

Sweat is the sermon

Skin will testify

Sweat is the sermon

Amen with the sigh

Verse

Jawline drips where the hi-hats climb

Ribcage opens on borrowed time

Wrists go loose like the choir's hands

Body answering the beat's demands

Hairline soaked, the sermon's read

Nod of the neck where the verse is said

Palms turn up like an offering plate

Nothing left now to hesitate

Pre-Chorus

Let the salt line spell your name

Let the burn turn into flame

Give the body back its say

Preach it out the only way

Chorus

Sweat is the sermon

Rolling down the spine

Sweat is the sermon

Read it line by line

Sweat is the sermon

Skin will testify

Sweat is the sermon

Amen with the sigh

Bridge

No words left, just the drip and the drum

Congregation of the overcome

Every drop is a verse we keep

Preached out loud while the body speaks

Chorus

Sweat is the sermon

Rolling down the spine

Sweat is the sermon

Read it line by line

Sweat is the sermon

Skin will testify

Sweat is the sermon

Amen with the sigh