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