Dust on the Drum (Version 2)

Intro

Palms find the skin

Dust lifts like breath

Verse

Old drum leaning in the corner

Goatskin cracked but still it hums

Sunrise cutting through the shutter

Wakes the dust that never comes

Pre-Chorus

Feel it rising off the leather

Feel it settle on my wrist

Every hand that came before me

Left its print inside my grip

Chorus

Dust on the drum

Rising in the light

Dust on the drum

Waking with my hands

Verse

Courtyard warm, the circle gathers

Copper morning on the wall

Every strike sends up a shimmer

Gold that falls and falls and falls

Pre-Chorus

Feel it rising off the leather

Feel it settle on my wrist

Every hand that came before me

Left its print inside my grip

Chorus

Dust on the drum

Rising in the light

Dust on the drum

Waking with my hands

Bridge

It was quiet in the corner

Now it's breathing through the floor

Every beat I send it upward

It comes back to me once more

Outro

Dust on the drum

Rising in the light

Dust on the drum

Home in my hands