Verse
Water tank rattling on the rooftop floor
Steel drum burning by the stairwell door
Pigeons scatter when the bassline hits
Gold dust settling on my fingertips
Corrugated iron catching amber light
City spread out like a coal field tonight
Grandmother's beadwork tied around my wrist
Every ancestor moves when my hips twist
Pre-Chorus
Can you feel it climb the stairwell
Rising past the water tank
Every spark knows where it's traveled
Every step lands where they sank
Chorus
Ashes and amber, this groove in my bones
Ashes and amber, never alone
Ashes and amber, the drum finds home
Ashes and amber, we rise and we glow
Verse
Washing lines swaying with the midnight breeze
Redbrick stairwell holds the memories
Footprints in soot where my mother stood
Same rooftop, same fire, understood
Skyline flickers like a thousand drums
Township lights answer where the echo comes
Soot on my ankles, embers in my chest
Fire never sleeps, it just takes a rest
Pre-Chorus
Can you feel it climb the stairwell
Rising past the water tank
Every spark knows where it's traveled
Every step lands where they sank
Chorus
Ashes and amber, this groove in my bones
Ashes and amber, never alone
Ashes and amber, the drum finds home
Ashes and amber, we rise and we glow
Bridge
Hold my palms up to the sparks that scatter
Every name that came before still matters
Rooftop turns to open sky above me
Ash remembers everyone who loved me
Chorus
Ashes and amber, this groove in my bones
Ashes and amber, never alone
Ashes and amber, the drum finds home
Ashes and amber, we rise and we glow
