Lyrics
The exhaust from this Okada dey burn my ankle, it's Tuesday night.
I pull over by the Kaneshie station, under the one good light.
Just calling 'cause... chale, the silence in the car on the way back home.
It was louder than the tro-tro preacher screaming through his microphone.
I just wanted to say...
[Chorus]
This scaffolding we're climbing, it no go hold.
I see the cracks in the concrete, the story untold.
This foundation we stand on is borrowed land, babe, it's borrowed land.
[Verse 2]
Remember the welder fixing the gate for your mother's shop?
The flash of his torch was the only bright thing on the whole block.
You said, "It's nothing," but your hand was tight around your fork.
We dey build something beautiful with rotten wood and chalk.
It's like we...
[Spoken-word Interlude]
(A faint, distorted voice from a passing car radio bleeds into the call)
"...and the wise man builds his house upon the rock... while the foolish man builds his house upon the sand..."
[Bridge]
My phone screen dey show your face, your smile from last year's Homowo.
Before the rent went up, before my hustle got so slow.
We talk about everything except the weight that makes us bend.
[Chorus]
This scaffolding we're climbing, it no go hold.
I see the cracks in the concrete, the story untold.
This foundation we stand on is borrowed land, babe, it's borrowed land.
[Outro]
Ah, forget. My credit go finish.
I'll see you when I see you. (click)
About Kojo Duro
Kojo Duro was raised in the rhythms of Jamestown, Accra, where his father dispatched tro-tro buses and his mother sold kenkey. After a year of studying IT, he dropped out to chase the cadences he heard in the local boxing gyms and on his father's old Highlife cassettes. He writes his verses—sharp, empathetic portraits of his city—on a delivery bike, navigating Accra's traffic by day and recording…
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