Lyrics
The N2 highway bleeds ink under her thumb.
After the last train rattles the windowpane,
she unfolds the Shell map from nineteen-ninety-one.
The kitchen table is cold, smelling of evening rain.
[Chorus]
(Vocalist 2) Redraw the line, redraw the line.
From the Eastern Cape coast to the city mine.
[Verse 2]
Each suburb's a grid, a neat and guarded square.
Her breath fogs the gloss on the paper's cheap veneer.
'You can't go back,' the letter says, a black line where
a name should be. She traces the border of a forgotten year.
[Chorus]
(Vocalist 2) Redraw the line, redraw the line.
From the Eastern Cape coast to the city mine.
[Bridge]
(Vocalist 2) This is not a map to a place.
This is the shape of a face.
[Outro]
Ikhaya... redraw the line.
Ikhaya... the city mine.
About Miriam Makebay
She was five when her family vanished, relocated overnight into witness protection with a new last name. Raised in a house of secrets, with no baby photos and a past that was forbidden territory, she discovered the truth of her identity in a bureaucratic filing at age 19. She now performs under the name Miriam Makebay, a tribute to the exiled 'Mama Africa', using her kalimba and a voice steeped…
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