Verse
Basin water swirling
Suds like smoke on my palms
Washing line snapping rhythm
The wind already knows the psalm
Mielie dust in sunlight
Drifting soft past the fence
Grandmother hums in the courtyard
Still making perfect sense
Pre-Chorus
Can you feel the floor humming
Under the beat of the wash
Something holy is coming
Wearing the dust like gold
Chorus
Gold dust liturgy
Rising off my skin
Gold dust liturgy
Let the dance begin
Gold dust liturgy
Every breath a hymn
Gold dust liturgy
This is worship within
Verse
Corrugated shadows
Stretching long on the ground
Soap suds catch the morning
Turn to halos around
Aunties trading harmonies
Basins keeping the time
Every scrub becomes a verse
Every fold becomes a rhyme
Pre-Chorus
Can you feel the floor humming
Under the beat of the wash
Something holy is coming
Wearing the dust like gold
Chorus
Gold dust liturgy
Rising off my skin
Gold dust liturgy
Let the dance begin
Gold dust liturgy
Every breath a hymn
Gold dust liturgy
This is worship within
Bridge
I carry her hands in my knuckles
Her breath in the steam I exhale
No pulpit but this concrete courtyard
No scripture but sweat on my nails
Every basin becomes an altar
Every child a candle unlit
This is how we stay unbroken
This is how the dust stays lit
Chorus
Gold dust liturgy
Rising off my skin
Gold dust liturgy
Let the dance begin
Gold dust liturgy
Every breath a hymn
Gold dust liturgy
This is worship within
