Ribs in rows, no breath, no beat
Dust for lungs and dirt for feet
Jaw to jaw, joint to joint
Hope reduced to brittle points
Every promise picked clean dry
Nothing left but stacked-up sighs
He said, "Son of man, can these bones live?
Son of man, what's left to give?
Son of man, speak if you dare"
Rattle the bones
Rattle the bones
Hear that sound
Rattle the bones
Rattle the bones
Oh, rattle the bones
(Rattle the bones)
Cartilage and cracked command
Hope held hostage in the sand
Every marrow memory gone
Silence singing funeral songs
Sendu snapped and sockets bare
Nothing moving, nothing there
But thunder rolls and prophet tone
Word hit stern like rolling stone
He said, "Son of man, breathe bone on bone
Son of man, call them home
Son of man, lift your voice"
Rattle the bones
Rattle the bones
Shake that ground
Rattle the bones
Rattle the bones
Oh, rattle the bones
(Rattle the bones)
Bone to bone, hear the knock
Graveyard ticking like a clock
Death don't dance, death don't decide
Not when heaven's breath collides
Wind from God, wild and wide
Fills the lungs of graves denied
What was lost begins to rise
He said, "Son of man, prophesy
Son of man, let breath arise
Son of man, don't whisper now"
Rattle the bones
Rattle the bones
Call them out
Rattle the bones
Rattle the bones
Oh, rattle the bones
(Rattle the bones)
He spoke and the dead stood up
He spoke and the dead stood up
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