Lyrics
The coals from the braai are grey on the Melville pavement.
We pass the phone around, a weight in the quiet.
A map to a river that's running somewhere else,
A season of rain for a handful of our dust.
[Chorus]
(And we feel the slow collapse)
(The city holds its breath)
(Underneath the overpass)
(A promise and a death)
[Verse 2]
The first minibus taxi hums up 4th Avenue.
The air tastes of winter, coming now-now.
"Just say yes," you whisper, "no one ever has to know."
A tremor runs through us, the oldest fault we've got.
[Chorus]
(And we feel the slow collapse)
(The city holds its breath)
(Underneath the overpass)
(A promise and a death)
[Bridge]
The jacarandas are shedding on the power lines,
Each one a soft purple ending, one at a time.
[Outro]
A promise and a death.
The city holds its breath.
About Leko Solani
Leko Solani was raised in Soweto to the sound of his grandmother's Sotho folk songs and the rhythms of a djembe taught to him by a neighbourhood elder. His brand of afro-tech is born from the tension between Johannesburg's relentless energy and the profound silence of the Karoo desert, a landscape that reshaped him on a solo bus trip at 19. His songs are love letters to his city, his long-term…
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