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Jacaranda
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Jacaranda was released on October 16, 2026 by Independent as a part of the album Fishing is not about fishing
October 16, 2026
LabelIndependent
LanguageEnglish
BPM111
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

Music Video

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Lyrics

jacaranda, silly summer, everything is wet
hail stones bigger than my thumb
are piling up against the gate
andy's back to renting, says he can't afford to buy
reads the news and mourns his marriage, cancels flights
pigeons gather round my brother, set the table for one other
whiskey, tango, where's your mother? everybody fights
I don't know what I'm coming home to
and I don't know how to cry about it
we drive out to soweto on a double decker bus
and I meet you at the blue bar, sunset curling up with rust
joburg's like a canvas that I forgot to stretch
oh, such thin lines to colour, I've no sense of what is left
unfamiliar, migraine splitter, bree st gas line blew
I no longer hold your hand now when we cross fourth avenue
big abandoned building like the house that we once knew
I don't know what I'm coming home to
and I don't know how to could cry about it
hot december, friends remember, sweating with the land
lips sticky with green zambuk and the joy of finally feeling sad
drive the seven hours that it takes to touch the sand, thinking
are you still my mother if you're no longer with my dad?
"I swore I'd never leave my children,
swore I'd stick it out this time but god
we just can't do it, for your safety and for mine"
I don't know what I'm coming home to
but at least now I can cry about it
Written by: Ruby Mary Gill
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