Chasing dust Revised

**Verse 1**  
You breathe like I breathe,  
Bleed like I bleed,  
And die like I die,  
Why do you feel so entitled, walk upon this earth as though you rend it asunder,  
I wonder.

**Chorus**  
What gives you the right,  
To be so haughty,  
In spite of being just dust and bones?  
No throne can place you higher,  
We’re all just shadows,  
In this world alone.  

**Verse 2**  
You walk with pride,  
But beneath the skin,  
We're all the same,  
Where do you begin?  
With every breath taken,  
And every heart that breaks,  
We’re bound by our fate,  
What difference does it make?

**Chorus**  
What gives you the right,  
To be so haughty,  
In spite of being just dust and bones?  
No throne can place you higher,  
We’re all just shadows,  
In this world alone.  

**Bridge**  *female*
In the silence of the night,  
We all face the same fight,  
Echoes of our dreams,  
Fading into twilight.  
What legacy will we leave,  
When the dust settles down?  
In the end, we’re all but whispers,  
Lost without a sound.

**Verse 3**  
So stand on your mountain,  
With your arrogance displayed,  
But know that time is fleeting,  
And all will soon decay.  
Your power is an illusion,  
A flicker in the dark,  
For beneath the gilded surface,  
We all bear the same mark.

**Chorus**  
What gives you the right,  
To be so haughty,  
In spite of being just dust and bones?  
No throne can place you higher,  
We’re all just shadows,  
In this world alone.  

**Outro**  
So let the world remember,  
We’re woven from the same thread,  
In the tapestry of existence,  
Where all our fears are bred.  
When the final curtain falls,  
And the echoes fade away,  
We’re just dust chasing dust,  
In the silence where we lay.

New Orleans blues, organ, creole style, male