Lyrics
The roll of guinea brocade you touched that Tuesday.
Sunlight cutting strips on the Balogun market floor.
Then the faded cotton, threadbare by the fold,
Aso-oke for a wedding I was never told.
[Chorus]
This is how I worship,
Watching you choose your colors.
This is my testimony,
Measured out for another.
[Verse 2]
A bolt of black lace, so much silence in your hands.
Then nothing, 'til the rains washed over the lands.
You came back with the harmattan haze on your shoulders,
And bought the velvet with the gold-dust dye smolders.
You smiled so quiet, said, "This one is just for me."
[Bridge]
My scissors know the tension just before the cut.
The weight of it, a new beginning in my gut.
[Outro]
Your lips part, a breath to tell me what it’s for, and—
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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