Lyrics
The 4am train on the Yaba rust line
Shakes the dust from this cheap window blind
Streetlights bleed orange through the harmattan haze
I still trace the pattern of your collar for days
In the quiet, I hear my own blood in my ears
[Pre-Chorus]
Does the sound still cross the water to you?
Does it pull a single thread of indigo blue?
[Chorus]
And this wait is a long, slow weave
Just a rust line lullaby I still believe
[Verse 2]
Remember the heat rising up from the rail ties?
That smell of suya smoke blurring our eyes
You said, "This track runs straight to the morning"
My thumb was tracing the selvedge on your shirt's new awning
A promise whispered over the generator's hum
[Pre-Chorus]
Does the sound still cross the water to you?
Does it pull a single thread of indigo blue?
[Chorus]
And this wait is a long, slow weave
Just a rust line lullaby I still believe
[Bridge]
A single knot can hold the whole design
I am holding my end of the line
[Outro]
Holding the line...
...I still believe...
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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