Lyrics
(Lead Vocalist)
My thumb traces the spine on this copy of Fanon
Three-fifteen AM, and the city hum is a low drone
My stomach is a cold stone they dropped in a well
This ain't hunger for bread, it's a story the body must tell
[Chorus]
(Second Vocalist)
The body keeps the ledger, oh
Every debt and every ghost
Counts the cracks in the foundation
The ones that hurt the most
[Verse 2]
(Lead Vocalist)
I'm counting six heartbeats sleeping in the other rooms
Six futures balanced on the blueprint of these tombs
My father told me once, "Son, your spine must be the rebar."
Now every time I stand up straight, I wonder where you are
[Chorus]
(Second Vocalist)
The body keeps the ledger, oh
Every debt and every ghost
Counts the cracks in the foundation
The ones that hurt the most
[Bridge]
(Second Vocalist)
But this load is a strange grace, a pillar holding me upright
Wọn ní, 'Orí burúkú, kì í gb'ẹbọ,' but this head is still here in the night
[Outro]
(Lead Vocalist)
Still counting...
(Second Vocalist)
The measure...
About Fela Kuyo
Fela Kuyo was raised in the shadow of the University of Ibadan, the eldest of six siblings who became a parent at fourteen when his activist father was silenced. His only inheritance was his father's political library and an old saxophone, which he taught himself to play by listening to Fela Kuti records. Today, he still lives in his hometown, his sprawling Afrobeat epics telling the story of a…
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