Lyrics
The first green on the St. James huts catches the pre-dawn.
My hand on the cold of the brass handrail is your hand, somehow.
The 5:18 train rattles the track, a slow tectonic hum.
I walk the line the salt has drawn.
[Chorus]
This air is your last held breath.
Tidal ukuthula.
[Verse 2]
“The water always comes back, my boy,” you said on this same wall.
Your voice is a vein of quartz in the stone.
I trace it now, under it all.
Just smoothed-over glass, after the squall.
[Chorus]
This air is your last held breath.
Tidal ukuthula.
[Bridge]
(Ooh-ooh, aah)
The world is just water and light.
[Outro]
(Ukuthula...)
Your last held breath.
About Kaelo Inyanga
The son of a legendary Cape Town jazz bassist, Kaelo Inyanga initially fled his musical inheritance to study marine biology. After dropping out, he found his own rhythm leading tours of the coastal rock pools of the Cape Peninsula. From his small apartment in Kalk Bay, he now creates deep afro-house, using the marimba his father gifted him to translate the patient, powerful language of the tides…
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Who is Kaelo Inyanga?
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