[Intro] My grandmother used to hum While the sink filled up with steam Same three notes every morning Like she was polishing a dream I never asked her where it came from She never said a word Just tapped her ring on the counter And let the whole house learn [Verse 1] Sunday shoes by the back door Radio low in the kitchen light Mama laughing through the screen door Daddy saying, “Baby, dance tonight” I was small enough to believe Nothing good could disappear That old song moved through the hallway And I followed it by ear [Pre-Chorus] Round and round The years would run But that little melody Kept holding on [Chorus] Change the rhythm Change the room Change the way the flowers bloom Change the weather Change the road Change the hands that carry home But underneath What time outgrew The same soul Comes shining through [Verse 2] By seventeen I had a jacket Too much pride and borrowed cologne A girl named Lena in the front seat Singing like the world was ours alone Streetlights slid across her cheekbone Summer leaning on the dash She caught those notes I never taught her And turned my future into glass [Pre-Chorus] Round and round The wheels would run But that little melody Kept holding on [Chorus] Change the rhythm Change the room Change the way the flowers bloom Change the weather Change the road Change the hands that carry home But underneath What time outgrew The same soul Comes shining through [Bridge] Then came rent Then came babies Then came jobs that wore us thin Then came silence In the places Where the music once walked in I found my father’s old records In a box beneath the stairs Dropped the needle Heard my grandmother And somehow She was there [Verse 3] Years got loud The city changed Bass got deeper Windows shook My son drove off in a used car With that same song in his hook He didn’t know it came from dishes Or a woman humming low He just nodded at the red light Like his blood already knows [Final Chorus] Change the rhythm Change the room Change the way the flowers bloom Change the language Change the sound Change the sky above this town But underneath What time outgrew The same soul Comes shining through [Outro] Now my granddaughter hums it While she colors on the floor Same three notes Different morning Same sunlight through the door I don’t ask her where it came from Some things don’t need to be proved I just tap my hand on the table And let the old song move
