Dust (Single)

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About Dust (Single)

“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.

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…

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

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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