[Verse 1] A hundred thousand years of walking out of Africa Is coiled inside the muscle of my thigh Every ancestor who ran down an antelope Is cheering in the chambers of my spine [Pre-Chorus] We were built for this before we built anything [Chorus] Signal fires on the hills of the body Passed from peak to peak to peak The message hasn't changed in forty thousand years: Keep moving — keep moving — don't sleep [Verse 2] The pavement doesn't know it's not savanna My lungs don't know the mammoths are all gone The oldest software running on this hardware Boots up clean the moment I'm gone — gone down the road, gone into rhythm [Chorus] Signal fires on the hills of the body Passed from peak to peak to peak The message hasn't changed in forty thousand years: Keep moving — keep moving — don't sleep [Bridge] Persistence is the only gift we're given Persistence is the whole inheritance
