Lyrics
(Sound of a phone dialing, one ring, then the voicemail beep)
(A soft breath in)
The egusi stain on your cuff tonight was shaped like a new moon.
I wanted to say that, but the words got tangled in my throat.
Now the heat is still sleeping in the pavement on Falolu Road,
And the air tastes of roasted corn and something I don't know.
[Chorus]
This is the unspoken weave, isn't it?
The thread I can't name but my body just fits.
This is the unspoken weave.
[Verse 2]
The generator's hum is a bassline for the whole street's dream.
"You think too much," you said, smiling over your chapman drink.
It's just past midnight, and the moon is pulling at the tide,
And I think maybe I don't think enough about what's right here inside.
[Chorus]
This is the unspoken weave, isn't it?
The thread I can't name but my body just fits.
This is the unspoken weave.
[Bridge]
(Music swells, vocals stack, pure emotion)
All my life I've been pulling threads, checking for the tear,
But you're not a fault line, not a knot of fear.
You are the colour that bleeds right through, making everything new...
[Chorus]
(Quieter, depleted, almost a whisper)
This is the unspoken weave... I guess.
The thread I can't name... in all of this mess.
[Outro]
(A soft sigh)
Anyway. I just... I wanted you to know.
(Sound of a key turning in a lock, the song cuts to the single sustained, unresolved chord)
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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