The Cranial Bones

[Intro] There's a vault you've never seen Eight pieces locked around the one thing That makes you you, and it never opens [Verse 1] Frontal up front, that's your forehead Two parietals form the roof up top Two temporals hold your hearing on the sides Occipital in the back where everything exits Sphenoid dead center, touching almost all of them Ethmoid thin and small between the eyes [Pre-Chorus] Cranial bones wrap around the brain Facial bones build the face you show Don't mix them up, that's where people slip Eight up here, fourteen down there [Chorus] Eight bones locked around your brain Frontal, occipital, standing alone Sphenoid, ethmoid, single too Parietal, temporal, those come in twos Four singles, two pairs, that's the count Eight bones sealing the vault [Verse 2] Occipital holds the foramen magnum That's where the cord runs down and out Sphenoid cradles the sella turcica That's the seat the pituitary sits in Ethmoid holds the cribriform plate Olfactory nerve threads through those holes [Bridge] Thinnest spot on the whole skull sits right here Pterion, where four bones meet Middle meningeal artery runs underneath Break it there and the bleed won't wait [Chorus] Eight bones locked around your brain Frontal, occipital, standing alone Sphenoid, ethmoid, single too Parietal, temporal, those come in twos Four singles, two pairs, that's the count Eight bones sealing the vault [Outro] Four alone, two in pairs, eight total Cranial protects, facial defines Cord through the occipital, gland in the sphenoid Pterion's thin, that's where it gives [End]