Verse
Tin roofs catching first light
Taxi horns start the hymn
Bare feet on the red road
Waking something within
Smoke curls off the braai stand
Grandfather's boots by the door
Every step I'm taking
Somebody walked before
Pre-Chorus
Can you feel the street breathing
Under the weight of the sun
Something ancient is rising
Every heartbeat becomes one
Chorus
Dust rising over Soweto
Dust rising off my skin
Dust rising over Soweto
This is how we begin
Verse
Kwaito bass through the fence line
Old speakers wrapped in wire
Neighbors step out their gates now
Dancing lifts like a fire
Concrete holds all the footprints
Layers deep in the ground
Every corner remembers
Every name, every sound
Pre-Chorus
Can you feel the street breathing
Under the weight of the sun
Something ancient is rising
Every heartbeat becomes one
Chorus
Dust rising over Soweto
Dust rising off my skin
Dust rising over Soweto
This is how we begin
Bridge
My mother swept this same yard
Her mother swept it too
Now the broom leans in the corner
And the dancing carries the truth
We don't need to remember
The ground already knows
Every grain that lifts skyward
Is the way the spirit goes
Chorus
Dust rising over Soweto
Dust rising off my skin
Dust rising over Soweto
This is how we begin
