Gold Hour Over Soweto (Version 2)

Verse

Coal smoke curls off the tin

Amber catching on my skin

Zinc fence warm where my palm lands

Dust rising soft from dancing feet

Brick walls blushing, wide awake

Streetlights dimming, day breaks

Spaza shutters rolling up

Gold spills into every cup

Pre-Chorus

Light finds the marks we made

Every step, every trade

Body holding what's been passed

Morning came to make it last

Chorus

Gold hour over Soweto

Gold hour over Soweto

Every window, every echo

Gold hour over Soweto

Verse

Washing lines stitched with fire

Sheets like flags on every wire

Bicycle spokes throwing light

Kids outrun the fading night

Church bell humming through the haze

My chest keeps time, my chest obeys

This street remembers how to glow

It's in my blood, it's in my bones

Pre-Chorus

Light finds the marks we made

Every step, every trade

Body holding what's been passed

Morning came to make it last

Chorus

Gold hour over Soweto

Gold hour over Soweto

Every window, every echo

Gold hour over Soweto

Bridge

My mother swept this yard at five

Same broom, same song, still alive

I move the way her shoulders moved

Same sun she rose to, proved

I am the dust and I'm the shine

Every dawn is doubly mine

The road still hums where she once walked

Her silence sings through everything I've got

Chorus

Gold hour over Soweto

Gold hour over Soweto

Every window, every echo

Gold hour over Soweto