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NNEKA GOLD

Ceiling

Ex-gospel choir lead who found four-to-the-floor

style

  • afro house
  • deep house
  • tribal percussion
  • log drum
  • soaring female vocal
  • powerful belt
  • Swahili chants
  • euphoric
  • festival-ready
  • east african accent

the numbers

bpm
123
key
F minor
energy
0.73
dance
0.94
valence
0.51
vocal at
2.7s
length
3:48
language
En

lyrics

(Kesho!)

Twenty years of singing upward at a painted ceiling
Hands up, eyes closed, addressing a specific direction
Nobody ever said the ceiling was the destination
(the destination)
We just all faced the same way because the room was built that way

Now the ceiling is Ngong Road at five (Ngong Road at five)
Same hands, same eyes closed, no roof, no architecture

Ceiling
(ceiling, ceiling)
I did not lose my religion, I lost a building
Ceiling
And the singing did not notice the difference

Mama thinks I traded God for a nightclub, which is fair
It looks exactly like that from where she is standing
But I have watched four hundred strangers forgive each other at 5am
(at 5am)
And I know what that is. I was raised in the room that names it.

(a cappella, layered)
Same hands... same hands...
(CLAPS, DROP)

Ceiling
(ceiling, ceiling)
I did not lose my religion, I lost a building
Ceiling
And the singing did not notice the difference

(Kesho...)