Sinners Move First

You can always tell the guilty ones. They never stop moving.

Verse 1 Saw a man hold the back wall like a sin Drink not touched, eyes counting how they came in Innocent men, they sit, they spread, they stay A clean conscience never learned to sway But the floor knows who washed their hands tonight Knees that bounce, a jaw that's wound too tight He don't dance because he's having fun He dances 'cause his stillness gives him up

Pre-Chorus Watch the feet Not the face Guilt's a thing That can't stay in place

Chorus Sinners move first The clean ones can sit a whole night through A still hand never lied, a still hand never knew The guilty keep dancing 'cause the music's all that's left

Verse 2 Preacher's son out there spinning like a top Smiling hard at a beat that will not stop He confessed to nobody, told the floor instead Every shuffle is a thing he never said Me, I came in slow and I came in loose But my heel gave a tremor like a noose So don't trust the man who can't stand still That's not the rhythm — that's the bill

Pre-Chorus Watch the feet Not the face Guilt's a thing That can't stay in place

Chorus Sinners move first The clean ones can sit a whole night through A still hand never lied, a still hand never knew The guilty keep dancing 'cause the music's all that's left

Bridge I have not been still since nineteen-ninety-one There's a porch in Alabama and a thing that I done Don't ask me to sit down Don't ask me to sit down Sinners move first The clean ones can sit a whole night through A still hand never lied, a still hand never knew The guilty keep dancing 'cause the music's all that's left

Outro The music's all that's left

Find this song on YouTube