Dust and Ashes is about starting over and rebuilding. It is about piling up everything endured and struggled and letting it burn. The ashes become fuel to create something meaningful. In the combustion you’re purified and emptied out enough to start over and build from what has crumbled.
“When I looked in the depths of my hands I could see I was blind, now it seems all the answers I had are the hardest to find, and I need to know tonight what the dust and the ashes have fashioned inside."
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lyrics
LYRICS
V1
So I burned all the old days down
On a funeral pyre
And I stood with my arms stretched out
Like a pillar of fire of fire - of fire
In the coals of a wordless sound
I am here to inquire
I need to know tonight (tonight tonight tonight)
CH
What the dust and the ashes
Have fashioned inside
(Ooh ooh)
What the dust and the ashes
Have fashioned inside - inside
V2
Well I carried it down to the sea
And I held it up higher
Yeah I fell on my bended knees
And I beckoned the tide - the tide
Oh take this away from me
On your fathoms of brine
‘Cause I need to know tonight (tonight tonight tonight)
CH
What the dust and the ashes
Have fashioned inside
(Ooh ooh)
What the dust and the ashes
Have fashioned inside - inside
REFRAIN
Ooh ooh
Ooh ooh
V3
And when I looked in the depths of my hands
I could see I was blind
As the glow of the day now was wrapped
In a cloak of the night - the night
Now it seems all the answers I had
Are the hardest to find
And I need to know tonight (tonight tonight tonight)
I need to know tonight (tonight tonight)
CH
What the dust and the ashes
Have fashioned inside
(Ooh ooh)
What the dust and the ashes
Have fashioned inside - inside (2x)
REFRAIN
Ooh ooh
Ooh ooh
credits
from Fault Lines,
track released April 2, 2021
Written, recorded and produced by Samuel Robertson
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