Lyrics
Hello... it's me. This bottle of Star Radler is sweating on my palm.
I'm walking past the old Cocoa Board building, just a skeleton now.
I see the way you paint your lips a different colour every Tuesday.
And the new words you use, you are collecting them like currency.
[Chorus]
If I replace the wood, plank by plank, from bow to stern...
Is it still the same boat you stand in? When will I learn?
If I rebuild the wall, brick by brick, till nothing old remains...
Is it still the same foundation holding back the rains?
[Verse 2]
I count the new streetlights... one, two... they burn a different kind of yellow.
Not like the hazy harmattan of '09, when your voice was more mellow.
Last week you said, "Don't paint over the cracks, the story is in them."
But I watch you draw a new blueprint for yourself with a borrowed pen.
[Bridge]
(BEAT SWITCH)
Ah, forget the question. The architect is you, my dear.
And every single change you make, it banishes a fear.
Na your laughter be the cement, your spirit be the crane.
Build am again. Start am again.
[Outro]
Okay... I go call you in the morning. Bye.
(sound of a phone call ending abruptly)
About Fela Kuyo
Fela Kuyo was raised in the shadow of the University of Ibadan, the eldest of six siblings who became a parent at fourteen when his activist father was silenced. His only inheritance was his father's political library and an old saxophone, which he taught himself to play by listening to Fela Kuti records. Today, he still lives in his hometown, his sprawling Afrobeat epics telling the story of a…
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