Dust Rises Over Alexandra

Verse

Red path cracked beneath the taxi wheels

Alex morning, kettle steam

Bare feet find the rhythm in the gravel

Where my mother used to lean

Wire fence humming with the wind off Jukskei

Corner shop still counting change

Every step I take is someone older

Walking through me just the same

Pre-Chorus

Feel it rise up through the arches

Feel it climb into my chest

Dust remembers every dancer

Never learned to rest

Chorus

Dust rises over Alexandra

Dust rises over Alexandra

Gold in the evening air

Dust rises over Alexandra

Verse

Backyard speaker wired through the window

Bass line shaking corrugate

Aunties clapping on the concrete

Uncles keeping time and weight

Streetlight buzzing, kids still running

Shadow stretching down the lane

Same ground my grandmother was dancing

Same dust, same drum, same name

Pre-Chorus

Feel it rise up through the arches

Feel it climb into my chest

Dust remembers every dancer

Never learned to rest

Chorus

Dust rises over Alexandra

Dust rises over Alexandra

Gold in the evening air

Dust rises over Alexandra

Bridge

Not a ruin, this is temple

Every wall still holds a song

Every footstep laid the pattern

Long before I came along

Chorus

Dust rises over Alexandra

Dust rises over Alexandra

Gold in the evening air

Dust rises over Alexandra