Follow the Dot

Follow the dot, follow the dot
(Mama dey watch am for the phone)
Follow the dot, follow the dot

Follow the dot, follow the dot
(Mama dey watch am for the phone)
Follow the dot, follow the dot
(e don pass the sea, e dey come home)
Every inch of blue na my road
(every inch)
Every minute na my knock
(knock, knock)

Ehh, ehh, December, ehh
(follow the dot)
Ehh, ehh, I dey come, ehh
(follow the dot)
Ehh, ehh, December, ehh
(small plane, big love)
Ehh, ehh, I dey come, ehh
(follow the dot)

Seat thirty-one C, the window shut
I send the link before the wheels leave ground
Twelve years of video calls and half a face
Now Mama fit watch my whole self come round
Cousins go argue which side wind dey blow
Small pikin say the plane too slow
Auntie sweep the floor wey don clean before
Somebody iron the same shirt twice more
Mama cook for twelve and we be only four
She say hunger no be the reason, na hope
I put my phone on airplane, my heart on loud
And the dot dey crawl across the cloud

Abeg, no sleep, no sleep
Abeg, make dem no sleep
Whatever I carry, dem go see am enter
Abeg, make the dot no tire
Slowly, slowly, slowly

Follow the dot, follow the dot
(Mama dey watch am for the phone)
Follow the dot, follow the dot

Follow the dot, follow the dot
(Mama dey watch am for the phone)
Follow the dot, follow the dot
(e don pass the sea, e dey come home)
Every inch of blue na my road
(every inch)
Every minute na my knock
(knock, knock)

Ehh, ehh, December, ehh
(follow the dot)
Ehh, ehh, I dey come, ehh
(follow the dot)
Ehh, ehh, December, ehh
(follow the dot)
Ehh, ehh, I dey come, ehh
(follow the dot)
Ehh, ehh, December, ehh
(small plane, big love)
Ehh, ehh, I dey come, ehh
(follow the dot)

Immigration line long like Sunday service
The officer ask how long I go stay
I wan talk say since I leave, I never leave
But I say three weeks, and he wave me away
One word go out to the family group: landed
Thirty voices answer before I blink
Uncle send a voice note, only laughing
Mama write, I know, I saw the dot stop
I laugh for the belt and I no fit think
Taxi man greet me like we don meet
I tell am drive slow, I wan count the street
Every billboard still know my name
Every pothole don learn my feet

Abeg, no sleep, no sleep
Abeg, make dem no sleep
Whatever I carry, dem go see am enter
Slowly, slowly, slowly

The dot don stop, but the road no stop
Anybody fit stop a dot
Nobody fit stop a mother
Wey don stand for the gate since the cock crow
Every wave I cross, she cross am first
Every prayer I carry, she don pack am pass

Leave the dot, leave the dot
(Mama dey for the gate o)
Leave the dot, come to the door
(e don reach, e don reach home)
Every inch of blue don turn to road
(every inch)
Every minute na her arms, her arms

Follow the dot, follow the dot
(Mama dey watch am for the phone)
Follow the dot, follow the dot

Leave the dot
Small plane, big love
Follow the dot
Follow the dot
Leave the dot