Lyrics
The ink on this God Is Good receipt
is bleeding at the fold from 2017.
My wallet kept the warp of it pressed tight,
a faded draft we drew that rainy Tuesday night.
[Chorus]
We were weaving on a paper loom, oh
Stretching promises across the room.
Drawing futures in a borrowed pen,
Swore we'd never be that broke again.
[Verse 2]
Your jacket smelled of traffic and wet earth,
counting out the last coins to prove our worth.
"Fola, this time next year," you said with a grin,
"the whole of Alara will be begging us in."
[Chorus]
We were weaving on a paper loom, oh
Stretching promises across the room.
Drawing futures in a borrowed pen,
Swore we'd never be that broke again.
[Bridge]
The threads were always going to tear, you know?
That cheap pulp couldn't take the weight, and so—
The colors ran, the pattern dissolved to stains,
but god, I miss the feeling of the coming rains.
[Outro]
Just a ghost weave in my palm,
humming a generator psalm.
About Fola Ireti
Fola Ireti spent a decade as one of Lagos’s most sought-after textile artists, known for her intricate Adire indigo dyes. At 31, after a devastating business failure, she sold her looms and poured the language of her former craft—the weaving, the dyeing, the patient mending of threads—into music. These songs were written in her Surulere workshop, surrounded by bolts of unsold fabric. Her sound is…
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