[Verse 1]
I got dust in my lungs
And quiet in my chest
A valley full of echoes
And shadows of death
It's good versus evil
I'm catching my breath
'Cause I got dust in my lungs
[Pre-Chorus]
I'm not giving up
I, I'm rising up
(Rising up)
[Chorus]
Darkness fades and the skeletons shake
When you call upon His name
You bring these bones
To life, to life
Down in my soul
I prophesy
[Verse 2]
Your fire is the spark in my heart
In my spine
You bring these bones
To life, to life
[Verse 3]
I was a dead man walking
Barely alive
Just when my grave was calling
From the other side
Good versus evil
You showed me the light
[Chorus]
Darkness fades and the skeletons shake
When you call upon His name
You bring these bones
To life, to life
Down in my soul
I prophesy
[Verse 4]
Your fire is the spark in my heart
In my spine
You bring these bones
To life, to life
[Bridge]
I'm not giving up
I, I'm rising up
I'm not giving up
(Ezekiel 37)
I, I'm rising up
(Prophesy to these bones)
I, I'm rising up
(And say to them, dry bones)
(Hear the word of the Lord)
I, I'm rising up
(And ye shall live)
I, I'm rising up
(And as I prophesied)
I'm not giving up
(There was a noise)
(A sudden rattle)
(Of the bones)
[Chorus]
You bring these bones
To life, to life
Down in my soul
I prophesy
[Outro]
Your fire is the spark in my heart
In my spine
You bring these bones
To life, to life
To life, to life
You bring these
Bones
To life, to life
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Bones
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Oct 9, 2026 updated
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Song Meaning
Colton Dixon builds this track around the prophet Ezekiel's vision of the valley of dry bones, and he doesn't leave the connection implicit. The bridge actually names Ezekiel 37 and layers spoken fragments over the rising refrain — dry bones, hear the word of the Lord, a sudden rattle — so the scripture becomes part of the song's texture rather than a footnote. The verses stay personal: dust in the lungs, quiet in the chest, a valley of echoes and the shadow of death, a man barely alive whose grave was already calling. Against that, the chorus answers with darkness fading and skeletons shaking at the sound of His name, and the repeated promise that these bones come to life. The image of fire as the spark in the heart and spine turns resurrection into something physical, felt in the body. The pre-chorus and bridge hold the same refusal — not giving up, rising up — which keeps the song from being only about deliverance and makes it also about the will to keep standing while it comes. It ends where it began, with breath and bone and the insistence that life is being spoken into both.
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