The Skeletal System

[Intro] Started out not knowing where to look Now you can run the whole body top to bottom and name every piece on the way down [Verse 1] Twenty-two in the skull, eight of them cranial Fourteen more building out the face Twenty-six running down the vertebral column Twenty-five closing up the thoracic cage Seven in the hyoid and the ossicles That's eighty, the axial is done [Pre-Chorus] Now everything that hangs off that frame Four in the pectoral, two in the pelvic Sixty up in the arms, sixty down in the legs One twenty-six, the appendicular [Chorus] Two hundred and six, the whole body Eighty in the axial, one twenty-six in the limbs Skull, spine, thoracic cage, hyoid Girdles, arms and legs, hands and feet Support, protect, and let you move Two hundred and six, the skeleton's complete [Verse 2] Bone isn't dead weight sitting still It banks your calcium and releases it back Red marrow's building the cells in your blood Long, short, flat, irregular, sesamoid Breaking down and rebuilding your whole life Living tissue from the first day to the last [Bridge] Two hundred and six is the adult number A newborn starts with closer to three hundred Sacrum, coccyx, and cranial bones fuse The count drops as the body grows [Chorus] Two hundred and six, the whole body Eighty in the axial, one twenty-six in the limbs Skull, spine, thoracic cage, hyoid Girdles, arms and legs, hands and feet Support, protect, and let you move Two hundred and six, the skeleton's complete [Outro] Eighty holds you, one twenty-six moves you Two oh six grown, close to three hundred at birth Bone is alive, it banks calcium and builds blood Skull to foot, the whole body's mapped [End]