Lyrics
That Saturday, January 26th, at Maryland Bus Stop,
you saw the whole world woven, didn't think the weave could drop.
The air was thick with harmattan, a dusty golden thread,
you brushed the grit from off your cheek, ignored the words unsaid.
The asphalt breathed its heat up through your worn-out soles,
a city holding its breath, making spirits whole.
[Chorus]
Oh, the January calm.
You thought the tremor in the ground was just another psalm.
[Verse 2]
"Fine girl, buy your pure water," the woman by the road said.
Her smile was tired at the edges, a fraying piece of thread.
You dropped the coins into her palm, couldn't read her face,
a million lives about to rip, leaving no trace.
You bought two sachets, never knew the dye was set to bleed,
a future tangled at the root, a suffocating weed.
[Chorus]
Oh, the January calm.
You thought the tremor in the ground was just another psalm.
[Bridge]
(BEAT SWITCH)
And damn you, standing there so whole, a pattern still complete.
Damn you for the easy way you walked down Mabo Street.
You just turned up your Walkman, humming to the beat,
didn't feel the city tearing underneath your feet.
[Outro]
The sky was a loom about to snap...
then nothing.
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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