Verse
Mine dust settled in my father's palm
Gold he dug but never got to hold
Concrete towers built on hollow ground
Echoes of the shaft still turning round
I press my hand flat on the floor tonight
Feel the shimmer rising, feel it catching light
This city's veins run yellow underneath
My feet keep digging what the drum releases
Pre-Chorus
Something buried wants to breathe
Something golden wants to leave
Rises up through calf and knee
Dust becomes the light in me
Chorus
Dust, gold and dawn
Moving through my bones till the night is gone
Dust, gold and dawn
What they buried deep, I carry on
Verse
Headlamps flicker in an old man's eyes
Passed down stories, passed down sighs
Now the bassline digs where the shovels stopped
My hips remember every drop
Skyline glowing like a seam of ore
Every step of mine unlocks a door
Sweat runs gold along my collarbone
This ground was never empty, never alone
Pre-Chorus
Something buried wants to breathe
Something golden wants to leave
Rises up through calf and knee
Dust becomes the light in me
Chorus
Dust, gold and dawn
Moving through my bones till the night is gone
Dust, gold and dawn
What they buried deep, I carry on
Bridge
I am the shaft and I am the flame
I am the hand that still knows his name
Every grain of dust is a heartbeat spent
Turned to light through the way I dance and bend
Chorus
Dust, gold and dawn
Moving through my bones till the night is gone
Dust, gold and dawn
What they buried deep, I carry on
