Lyrics
The Aso-oke you bought me on Ojuelegba road
Has a single gold filament I never saw before.
It catches the light from the TV, a dangerous code,
Your shadow is stretched on my concrete floor.
[Chorus]
Don't you pull on it, don't you dare.
This whole damn fabric could tear.
One wrong thread, hanging in the air.
One wrong thread, and we're not going back there.
[Verse 2]
The ceiling fan above us clicks out a two-four time.
My fingers are tracing the grain on my jeans.
"It's just the NEPA cut," you said, your hand brushing mine.
You always did know how to rearrange the scenes.
[Chorus]
Don't you pull on it, don't you dare.
This whole damn fabric could tear.
One wrong thread, hanging in the air.
One wrong thread, and we're not going back there.
[Bridge]
(A crowd of whispered vocals enters, a rhythmic, percussive layer: "don't… don't… pull… don't…")
All these years a perfect, steady dye.
Now the color's bleeding past the line.
[Chorus]
(Key change up a minor third)
Go on and pull on it, I almost dare.
Let this whole damn fabric tear.
That one wrong thread, shimmering in the air.
That one wrong thread, and we're never going back there.
[Outro]
Never going back there.
No.
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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