Lyrics
The Tuesday fan on the chest of drawers just sighs.
His work shirt, a faded blue, hangs on the line to dry.
She sees the pocket, the seam giving way from the strain,
A cheap machine stitch, couldn't hold against the afternoon rain.
[Chorus]
(LEAD) He stirs and asks, "What's that you're doing there?"
(HARMONY) *(doing there)*
(LEAD) "Just a loose string," she lies, and doesn't meet his stare.
(HARMONY) *(meet his stare)*
[Verse 2]
The Ikoyi house he cleans smells of lemon and cold glass,
A world away from the dusty Gbagada traffic he must pass.
Today the madam clicked her tongue at a thumbprint on the chrome,
A small humiliation he carries all the way home.
[Chorus]
(LEAD) He sees the needle, asks "What's that you're doing there?"
(HARMONY) *(doing there)*
(LEAD) "Just a loose string," she lies, and doesn't meet his stare.
(HARMONY) *(meet his stare)*
[Bridge]
His fingers, rough from bleach, now trace the new, tight line.
A perfect, hidden knot, a silent, stubborn sign.
(A soft, whistled melody enters, carrying the emotional weight)
[Outro]
Just a loose string, on a Tuesday in July.
(Whistled melody fades out)
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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