Lyrics
Nostrand Avenue hums a Sunday hymn, it's almost three.
And I'm carrying a secret that wasn't meant for me.
Saw his hand on her waist by the Gowanus Canal's edge,
And the promise he wove for my friend starts to fray at the ledge.
[Chorus]
Oh, Weaver, tell me which thread to pull now,
This whole garment's coming beautiful and terrible, somehow.
Let Your shuttle guide my hand through this loom,
'Cause silence is a shroud, and speaking is a tomb.
[Verse 2]
Her mother sent the wedding cloth, Kente from Kumasi.
The dye still smells of indigo, smells like our family.
If I speak, I tear the seam that holds their whole house together,
But this lie feels like borrowed clothes in bitter London weather.
[Interlude: Spoken Word - Crackly phone call, an older woman's voice, speaking Twi]
(Phone Voice) "Whitney, me ba, tie. Wɔse, ɔdɔ yɛ wu."
(Whitney, whispering) "She said, 'Love is a kind of death'..."
[Chorus]
Oh, Weaver, tell me which thread to pull now,
This whole garment's coming beautiful and terrible, somehow.
Let Your shuttle guide my hand through this loom,
'Cause silence is a shroud, and speaking is a tomb.
[Bridge]
Am I the one to hold this single stitch 'til it bleeds?
Or be the scissors to a garden full of weeds?
[Outro]
The shuttle's in Your hands now.
Amen.
About Whitney Hughes
Born in London to Ghanaian parents who ran a textile shop in Peckham, Whitney Hughes was supposed to be a barrister. Instead, after dropping out of law school, she found her voice on a dusty community centre piano, writing powerhouse ballads about the worlds she translates between. Her songs weave the raw emotion of 90s R&B with the intricate patterns of her heritage. Her prized possession is a…
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