Dust (Single)

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Artist:
Jonathan Hadley

Release Date:
August 5, 2025

Record Label:
Abrasive Monologues

Writing Credits

Musical Composition:
J E Jackson

Lyrics:
J E Jackson

Musical Performance:
Jonathan Hadley – Guitars

Production Credits

Mixing:
Jonathan Hadley

Mastering:
Jonathan Hadley

Jon Hadley

Jonathan Hadley

Bio:

Jonathan Hadley is a musician and producer whose work explores atmosphere, texture, and emotionally direct songwriting. He is the founder of Abrasive Monologues, an independent artist collective and label, and releases music both under his own name and through collaborative projects within the roster.

Jon Hadley writes music like memories… out of order, half-lit, and sharper than it should be. As the founder of Abrasive Monologues, he builds sonic and narrative spaces where friction is never a flaw… it’s the point. His work moves between music, philosophy, and narrative realism, often circling themes of cost, love, and structural truth. When he’s not writing, he’s architecting systems that let other artists do the same… louder, cleaner, and with more control than the industry ever wanted to give them.

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About this track

“Dust” is a quiet descent into the spaces we inherit… both physical and emotional.A mixture of spoken word and raw vocals, it explores the grief of returning to a childhood home that no longer holds safety, only rot. It’s about what lingers when the walls stay standing but the people inside fell apart. This isn’t nostalgia. It’s a reckoning. A eulogy for innocence. A protest against forgetting. And a song for anyone who’s had to grieve the living.

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Lyrics

Though I told myself
I could go home again
I was wrong

The purest parts of who I am
Are covered in dust
On the walls

I never really expected her to truly understand why this affects me so badly.
Why walking into this house absolutely guts me, but it's because its a temple
to rot. Where I used to have a life. I don't think it's that much to understand.

All this time I spend awake
It's more than I can take
Leave all my stitches bleeding
Cut me while I'm awake
Cut me while I'm awake
All this dust that I'm breathing
Eats away at me
It eats away at me

Some of the things I hold dearest in this life I can't touch, because they're contaminated…
They're lost, in the dust, in the rot… There's not a damn thing I can do about it because
I'm not enough to push all of that back…

Guess what else is lost in the rot??? Me. I'm lost in the rot… in the dust.
I had to write a eulogy to my own damn childhood.

All this time I spend awake
It's more than I can take
Leave all my stitches bleeding
Cut me while I'm awake
Cut me while I'm awake
All this dust that I'm breathing
Eats away at me
It eats away at me

I get it… I get it a lot better than you think I do…
Dad left and instead of figuring out who you were, without him…
You started to fill that void with stuff…

You could have filled it with me… With people.

I guess I just wasn't all that important…

I'll always be Abrasive though.

All this time I spend awake
It's more than I can take
Leave all my stitches bleeding
Cut me while I'm awake
Cut me while I'm awake
All this dust that I'm breathing
Eats away at me
It eats away at me

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