Lyrics
Lagbaja's keys on the Calabar chalk,
cold against my palm for a minute too long.
(Lead) They no go open any door again.
(Harmonies) Tell me so, tell me so.
(Lead) Just a silver weight, a dead reckoning.
[Verse 2]
One blue receipt from the Eko Hotel,
faded now, says early December.
(Lead) You whispered, "Bayo, you dey think too much,"
(Harmonies) Oh, I know, oh, I know.
(Lead) and you kissed the pressure from my mouth.
[Verse 3]
Three kobo coin from 'ninety-four,
smooth like a stone from Bar Beach shore.
(Lead) Useless currency, perfect anchor.
(Harmonies) Hold me down, hold me down.
(Lead) Something solid on the kitchen counter.
[Bridge]
Used to plot my bearing by the satellite's hum,
now I measure patience from my thumb to my thumb.
(Lead) This quiet is the port I was running to.
(Harmonies) No more, no more.
(Lead) No more squalls on the radio.
[Outro]
I close the drawer, hear the soft wood knock.
The horizon line is the grout on the kitchen block.
About Bayo Verse
Raised by the hum of the Apapa ports in Lagos, Bayo Verse's smooth afropop was forged during his five years as a navigator in the Nigerian Navy. His songs are logbook entries from long-distance love, mapping the space between military discipline and romantic vulnerability. He left the sea to make music, but the horizon line—and the feeling of waiting for landfall—is still in every note he sings.
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