Dust Rituals at Dawn (Version 2)

Verse

Broom drags lines in red earth

Yard still holds the night's cold

Grandfather's boots by the fence post

Dust already knows my name

Pre-Chorus

Feel it rise before the rooster

Feel it climb before the sun

Every step I sweep uncovers

Something that's not done

Chorus

Dust rituals at dawn

We rise where the ground remembers

Dust rituals at dawn

Bare feet keep the drum in order

Verse

Sun cracks open on the tin roof

Gold falls through the settling haze

Every speck a small ancestor

Circling in the maze

Pre-Chorus

Feel it rise before the rooster

Feel it climb before the sun

Every step I sweep uncovers

Something that's not done

Chorus

Dust rituals at dawn

We rise where the ground remembers

Dust rituals at dawn

Bare feet keep the drum in order

Bridge

This yard is older than my body

This dust was dancing before I came

I only borrow the rhythm

Then I give it back the same

Chorus

Dust rituals at dawn

We rise where the ground remembers

Dust rituals at dawn

Bare feet keep the drum in order