Lyrics
This old shuttle in the Lawanson workshop
Still has your thumbprint smudged in the knot-stop.
They say I pull the weft too tight, same way you always did,
Leave a ghost of tension where the colour should have bled.
[Chorus]
But this crossed thread is the only map I own, Kole.
It's the rhythm in my blood, the warp of my bone.
[Verse 2]
Grandma said, "That temper's from the motherline, child."
Back in '98, before the NEPA signs all changed,
You threw a bolt of guinea brocade in the August rain.
I feel that same storm gathering in my own two palms.
[Chorus]
And this crossed thread is the only map I own, Kole.
It's the rhythm in my blood, the warp of my bone.
[Bridge]
Maybe a perfect cloth was never the whole story,
Just this beautiful mistake singing its own glory.
[Outro]
The shuttle sings your name, Kole.
My beautiful mistake.
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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