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Serengeti Dawn
from Dust & Gold
Serengeti Dawn is track 14 of the album Dust & Gold by Lia Nova (Afro House, 2026). Available on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music.
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Lyrics
Horizon bends in every direction
The grass extends beyond my sight
A nyatiti plucks the morning open
String by string the dark gives way to light
Serengeti dawn the earth remembers its first morning
Serengeti dawn the earth remembers its first morning
Its first morning
Its first morning
Giraffes move slow as breathing trees
A zebra herd shifts like a wave
The lion yawns and shakes the dust
From shoulders wider than a grave
Standing in a space so wide your eyes forget what walls are for
The sunrise paints three hundred sixty degrees of gold
Serengeti dawn the earth remembers its first morning
Serengeti dawn the earth remembers its first morning
Its first morning
Its first morning
The dust the herds kick up at dawn
Hangs golden in the early light
Each particle a tiny sun
Suspended in its own slow flight
The nyatiti falls into a phrase
That sunrise and the lyre have shared
Since someone first sat in this grass
And found a way to play the air