Dead Reckoning

[Verse 1]
The rust on the bollard by Wharf Road still dey my thumb.
Just past midnight and the stillness has come.
The air taste of harmattan and the engine oil,
And I trace your name on a condensation coil.
My shadow too long under this one streetlamp,
Like a memory my discipline cannot clamp.

[Chorus]
If I no remember your laugh,
Is that a new epitaph?
If I lose the plot of your face,
E mean say I kill you again?

[Verse 2]
You trace the new tattoo I get for my neck that day,
You whisper, "Bayo, all this water go wash you away."
Your voice was the only true latitude I could find,
Now I'm just searching out on the horizon line.
This quiet room get too much pressure for one man,
Following a chart you never finish, a ghost of a plan.

[Chorus]
If I no remember your laugh,
Is that a new epitaph?
If I lose the plot of your face,
E mean say I kill you again?

[Bridge]
They say a man must hold his bearing, must stand his ground.
But without your signal, what kind of sound?

[Chorus]
(Key change)
If I no remember your laugh!
Is that a new epitaph?
If I lose the plot of your face...
E mean say I kill you again?

[Outro]
Kill you again...