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Cathedral Knees

Donny Hayworth
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Donny Hayworth
R&B / Soul3:04April 28, 2026
0:00 3:04

Influenced by Donny Hathaway, Bill Withers, Roberta Flack, Stevie Wonder. Donny Hayworth never planned to be a musician. Raised in Baltimore's Roland Park, he was halfway through a Public Health degree at Johns Hopkins before he finally surrendered to the songs he heard in his head, swapping a stable future for $60,000 in student debt and a vintage Wurlitzer. His intimate, conversational soul music is a direct line to his life now: grappling with a recent breakup, talking to the houseplant his ex left behind, and trying to make sense of his choices in the quiet of his Hampden apartment.

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Hey. It's me. Voicemail.
It's 11:18 on a Wednesday night.
I was walking past the Clay Co-op on Maryland Avenue,
and the window was fogged from the kiln's heat inside.
I saw your silhouette shaping the gray,
a prayer I didn't know I needed to find.

[Chorus]
Got me on my cathedral knees.
Watching you make a god out of the clay.
Yeah, you got me on my cathedral knees,
and I don't know what else I'm supposed to say.

[Verse 2]
Remember you told me, "It's all in the centering"?
Your head was bowed, hair falling in your face.
I swear to god I saw the dust motes stop their dancing,
hanging holy in that consecrated space.
And for a second, my student loan felt distant.

[Chorus]
Got me on my cathedral knees.
Watching you make a god out of the clay.
Yeah, you got me on my cathedral knees,
and I don't know what else I'm supposed to say.

[Bridge]
All my songs are just me picking at the roots,
trying to see what's rotten, what's alive.
But you pull a whole new world up from the earth.

[Chorus]
(Key Change)
Got me on my cathedral knees!
Watching you make a god out of the clay!
Yeah, you got me on my cathedral knees,
and I don't know what else I'm supposed to say.

[Outro]
Anyway. I just... I had to tell you.
(click)

About Donny Hayworth

Donny Hayworth never planned to be a musician. Raised in Baltimore's Roland Park, he was halfway through a Public Health degree at Johns Hopkins before he finally surrendered to the songs he heard in his head, swapping a stable future for $60,000 in student debt and a vintage Wurlitzer. His intimate, conversational soul music is a direct line to his life now: grappling with a recent breakup…

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