Lyrics
The kalimba you gave me is cold tonight.
On the Maboneng windowsill, watching the headlights.
I saw Thabo down by the overpass,
his shadow moving through fractured glass.
[Pre-Chorus]
And this silence I keep is sedimentary,
another layer of red dust on the truth.
Another quiet Tuesday under this same tin roof,
building a wall of stone, grain by slow grain.
[Chorus]
Your son is breaking the rock you built.
And I just measure the fault line in this house of guilt.
[Verse 2]
She phoned me just past four, after her second shift.
Asked, "Did you know about the money? The gift?"
Her voice was a thin wire in the Joburg static,
my answer felt like a fossil in the attic.
[Pre-Chorus]
And this silence I keep is sedimentary,
another layer of red dust on the truth.
Another quiet Tuesday under this same tin roof,
building a wall of stone, grain by slow grain.
[Chorus]
Your son is breaking the rock you built.
And I just measure the fault line in this house of guilt.
[Bridge]
Do I shatter the granite to find the gold inside?
Or let the pressure build 'til there's nowhere left to hide?
[Outro]
Dust in the sunbeam...
On the Vilakazi fault...
About Azibo Clay
Azibo Clay learned to measure time by the way sunlight moved across a concrete floor. After serving 18 months in Johannesburg's 'Sun City' prison for a crime he didn't commit, he funnels that experience into a singular strain of deep-house-lounge. Using the kalimba his uncle gave him as a boy, he builds hypnotic, atmospheric tracks from the sounds of his Soweto upbringing. His music is the sound…
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Who is Azibo Clay?
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What genre is The Vilakazi Fault?
The Vilakazi Fault is Global Lounge.
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