Lyrics
The lights on the Brixton Tower blink on at seven sharp.
The cool of the tile through my socks on the kitchen floor.
I watch you at the counter, a shadow playing a part.
We haven't spoken since you walked through the door.
[Chorus]
If we change the parts, my love, are we still the same thing?
Or a new house built on top of an old frame?
[Verse 2]
"I see the old you," you said in the Highveld heat of July.
A ghost in the glare from a passing car's headlight.
Did you mean it as a comfort or was that a way to say goodbye?
Did you mean the boy I was, one restless Friday night?
[Chorus]
If we change the parts, my love, what's left of the whole name?
Just two quiet strangers playing a long, familiar game?
[Bridge]
Like a river that carves a new line through the stone,
Year after year, eroding us right down to the bone.
[Chorus]
We changed all the parts, my love, but we kept the last name.
And the first drops of summer rain on the glass sound just the same.
[Outro]
Just the same.
An old river's name.
About Leko Solani
Leko Solani was raised in Soweto to the sound of his grandmother's Sotho folk songs and the rhythms of a djembe taught to him by a neighbourhood elder. His brand of afro-tech is born from the tension between Johannesburg's relentless energy and the profound silence of the Karoo desert, a landscape that reshaped him on a solo bus trip at 19. His songs are love letters to his city, his long-term…
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