Lyrics
The old generator on Bode Thomas hums your key
Stretching out the warp since the harmattan haze fell on me
*You never look up when you work.*
My knuckles are raw, just to get the tension true
[Chorus]
On this altar loom
I am weaving you
The colour of my ruin
In a shade of new
[Verse 2]
This kohl I bought at Balogun market bleeds if you rush it
One drop of you is enough, I don't need to touch it
*"Is it the pattern or me you're in love with?"*
Oh my sweet, you're the grain and the thread running through it
[Chorus]
On this altar loom
I am weaving you
The colour of my ruin
In a shade of new
[Bridge]
The selvage is locked now, the cloth has been cut
There's no unravelling, no 'if' and no 'but'
My whole devotion in a single knot
[Outro]
*Fola...*
(sound of a shuttle, fading into rain)
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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