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Kora Sunset
from Dust & Gold
Kora Sunset is track 8 of the album Dust & Gold by Lia Nova (Afro House, 2026). Available on Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music.
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Lyrics
Gold pours from twenty-one strings
The griot sits beneath the baobab
His fingers speak in centuries
Each pluck a page from Africa's book
Kora sunset a thousand years in every note
Kora sunset a thousand years in every note
Every note
Every note
The children dance in circles small
Their feet draw patterns in the dust
The elders nod to rhythms they
Have carried since before the rust
The kora does not play the sunset
The kora is the sunset strings of light that fall and rise and fall again
Kora sunset a thousand years in every note
Kora sunset a thousand years in every note
Every note
Every note
The savanna stretches gold on gold
A baobab casts its upside crown
The kora counts the colors down
From amber through to underground
The last light finds the lowest string
And makes it glow like heated wire
The griot smiles and does not stop
The darkness only feeds the fire