[Verse 1] I came upon the bone-white rows, Under a sky gone brown and blind, Ribs stuck up like broken posts, Skulls full of rain and borrowed time. No little stones, no grieving hands, No names scratched into sunburnt clay, Just miles of what had once been man, All gathered where the light decays. [Pre-Chorus] Is this where the road bends? Is this what the body knows? All our fire and all our wanting Poured into the undertow. [Chorus] Here in the boneyard, Nothing sings aloud, Every jaw hangs open wide, Empty as a thundercloud. Here in the boneyard, Where the daylight thins, I saw the end of every face Grinning through its skin. [Verse 2] Hear me now, the ground keeps score, Better than the mouths of men, Some came crawling toward the door, Some were dragged and dropped again. No bright breath moved the brittle rows, No angel shook the iron air, Just the old root-truth exposed: What we bury still grows there. [Pre-Chorus] Who heaped the pale harvest? Who walked away unbound? Who planted all this silence In the belly of the ground? [Chorus] Here in the boneyard, Nothing sings aloud, Every jaw hangs open wide, Empty as a thundercloud. Here in the boneyard, Where the daylight thins, I saw the end of every face Grinning through its skin. [Instrumental Solo] [Verse 3] I knelt beside a twisted spine, Warm dust rising through my hand, Felt no curse and found no sign, Just the grammar of the land. If there’s a sermon in this place, It don’t climb toward the sky, It says the body loses shape, But never tells you why. [Pre-Chorus] Who keeps breathing? Who gets bone? Who names the hour When the blood lets go? [Chorus] Here in the boneyard, Nothing sings aloud, Every jaw hangs open wide, Empty as a thundercloud. Here in the boneyard, Where the daylight thins, I saw the end of every face Grinning through its skin. Here in the boneyard, Where the black roots creep, Every throne and beggar’s bowl Sinks into the deep. Here in the boneyard, No lash, no law, Just a field of final witnesses With winter in the jaw. [Outro] Boneyard, hush and hold, Boneyard, marrow-cold. Boneyard, take the flame, Boneyard, leave no name.
