Playlist Iyeoka

iyeoka - i travel home

I travel home to remember the sound of morning
I choose the evening to pray I remember this as it is
For when the city returns
When the sound of the green-line trolley cars and skyscrapers
Surround my senses diminishing this version of my imagination

I will remember this
The silence and the night time
I will remember red sand on bare feet
My skin sticky glistening in the sun
My hair like untamed wool
I will remember the air thick of africa

I will remember my mother in the night
And the children she cares for
I will see them once more as they play
Peeking at me from the crack in the doorway

I will remember my aunti-- her famous jeloff rice
Asking me in flawless ishan native tongue
"ofure...onegbe?"...how is everything...you're too skinny"
And I, struggling to keep up, clumsily responding
"butayay aunti?" that means, I don't know what you just said

I will remember the market place
The women selling smoked corn and plantain
The taste of moy-moy and egusi
The sound of doris pounding yam
Fresh oranges from the arrimogiga farm

When boston city lights mask the majesty of my favorite constellations
I will remember the moon...
Pregnant and smiling
Because I am a poet
As if she knows that I am
Invested enough to write about it
Perhaps because I am a poet
I will remember the unseen

The homeless and the beggars, the roadside wanderers,
People just trying to survive
Children roadside selling cell phones and unwanted trinkets
I will remember the local roads
Beaten and eroded by rain and time
Huts built beside a 15 story hotel skyrise
So many having so much
Neighbors with others living with nothing
But the hand-me-downs on their backs
And the realities of poverty crushing their
Promises of tomorrow

I leave behind my rose colored glasses
In my grandfather's village
Because when my plane finally lands back in boston
I want to believe that nigeria changes me every time
These moments teach me how to recognize what we take for granted
Constant electricity and clean water
Hospitals on every corner
The opportunity to rise beyond our native borders
These are the details that risk a fate of becoming lost or forgotten
Like sounds of the morning
For when the city returns
When the sound of the green-line trolley cars and skyscrapers
Surrounds my senses diminishing this version of my imagination
I will remember this
I need to remember this

iyeoka - breakdown mode

I've been living on a rebound
Stuck here for too long
You used to take my mind off of
All the ways love can make you go crazy

My emotions taking over
Every time I try to leave
I spin around to find
All the ways you could be better for me

It's like a merry-go-round we go
This love is making trouble with the highs and the lows
I need to take control
Before my heart goes to breakdown mode

All of my vision is spinnin' inside
I can't get off this ride
When will I find closure
If my heart is galloping, galloping for ya

I'm in trouble - too many nights alone
Too many days without you
Round and round we go
Singing the same song, same song

iyeoka - happily ever after

I am young, I wear no armor
No ability to become stone
You will abandon me when I am broken
You will abandon me when I an old
You will betray me, you will betray me
On more twilights than I deserve
Dancing on the graves of our yesterdays
Diggin down, down the bones of our love

I am young, I wear no armor
No ability to become stone
You will betray me, you will betray me
On more twilights than I deserve
You will discover that I am not the girl
I am not the girl you thought I was
You have found a way to strangle her
Burying this sweet little girl into the ground

Break down, break down down
The walls of happily every after

You will leave the girl
You will leave this girl behind
Slowly detaching from the memories
Of ever knowing a love like mine
I will get up in the morning
I will avoid wasting these days
I will find a way to revive the woman I loved
Before I chose to love you that way

I am young, I wear no armor
No abilities to become stone
My eyes will reflect everything about me
That you will never know

iyeoka - i am descending

I am descending
I am binding time
I'm trying to hold on to
Our sweetest memories

I can still feel you
Your lips on all of me
Your skin in between the silk
Still moving me

You are

You are validating
That my search for love
Is closer to you to me
Souls separated by six degrees

You are the fire inside of me
The blue sky in a sea of dreams
You are the ripples in ecstasy
That pales all fantasies

You are my tomorrow
You are my every yesterday
I am trying to hold on to
These words we used to say
I love you...

But where are we now
Where are we now

Until tomorrow comes
I wait for all of your love
I am trying to hold on to
These words we used to say

I am descending
You are still my rising sun
We are, we are the in between of love
The never failing... the hallelujah of love
We are, you are, you are
I am trying to hold on to
These words we used to say

I love u

iyeoka - millionaire

It's a traveling day
I'm on the road tonight
Trying to make it back home to you
You're probably worried, waiting up like you do
It's a beautiful thing
To think of you like I do tonight
With all the things that you want to give me
All I need is your love to be the star that guides me

I ain't rich, I know, oh I know
But I feel like I am a millionaire
I feel like I am a millionaire

Late november on an indian summer's afternoon
Leaves are brown and the seasons are changing
And all that I can think of is the love we're making
All that I need is to be in your arms tonight
Take a pass on the diamonds and things
To make it there beside you I'd give everything

It really doesn't matter to me
If the world was mine, filled with material things
A fancy car, or a first class ticket to bali
If I have not love than I have nothing

I ain't rich, I know, oh I know
But I feel like I am a millionaire
I feel like I am a millionaire
Because I got you

iyeoka - my current anthem

I believe that we have 365 days to change
To change our altitude our attitudes
To rise, to fly, to realign, to get right
I believe that we have
365 days to journey to be amazing
To uplift from the solitude that contributes to dragging us down
So this is my current anthem
This is my destiny of moments,
This is the song speaking from my heart so fearful of wasting days
And I want to get there
Right here, right now on this stage
Because lord knows getting up here isn't always easy
So deliver me from my constant expectations of life
Deliver me from trespassing in a trance
I want to wake up and resurface
From my subliminal sanctuary of mental hibernation
I want to transform as I go
I want to travel as an eagle
Wings spread like freedom painted magnificent
Catching wind in unison with spirits parallel to the heavens
Because today will mark the resurrection of the road
And this streetcar named desire lead me home
Always guiding me from the 5 shades of my blues
Back to the direction that I believe I am supposed to be living in
And right back to my anthem

And if the world we know shall crumble
And when the stars fall out of sky
Remember the road is on time with your arrival
And your next moment to shine flies on the horizon

iyeoka - say yes

You said you love me
But you won't come down
So I'm leaving tomorrow

I'm a traveler making my way around the world
Airplanes and automobiles carry me away
I got my whole life ahead of me, but
I want to make you my priority
I got my eyes on you
I could be ready to settle down real soon

Oh love!
I see you up in the air, Love!
I know how much you care, Love!
But if you stay up there for too long
I know I will be gone

You said you love me
But you won't come down
So I'm leaving tomorrow

And when the long road is calling me
Like a smile that comes with a summer breeze
I know somewhere down here
There's a place for you and me

Oh love!
I see you next to the moon, Love!
I know how much you care, Love!
But if you stay up there for too long
I know I will be gone

But if you Say Yes, to following your heart
Yes! To keeping me on
Your mind and in your arms tonight
Where I can celebrate
The day that you will ask for me to stay

iyeoka - simply falling

There goes my heart again
All of this time I thought we were pretending
Nothing looks the same when your eyes are open
Now you're playing these games
to keep my heartbeat spinning
You show me love, you show me love
You show me everything my heart is capable of
You reshape me like butterfly origami

You have broken into my heart
This time I feel the blues have departed
Nothing can keep me away from this feeling
I know I am simply falling for you

I'm taking time to envision where your heart is
And justify why you're gone for the moment
I tumble sometimes, looking for sunshine
And you know this is right when you look into my eyes
You show me love, you show me love
You show me everything my heart is capable of
And now I can't break away from this fire that we started

You have broken into my heart
This time I feel the blues have departed
Nothing can keep me away from this feeling
I know I am simply falling for you

There my heart goes again
In your arms I'm falling deeper
And there's nothing to break me away from this...

You have broken into my heart
This time I feel the blues have departed
Nothing can keep me away from this feeling
I know I am simply falling for you

There goes my heart again...
You have broken into my heart
Oh, I'm falling deeper, I'm falling deeper...

iyeoka - testify

Testify you will
Here, on the dance floor
When the dj plays your favorite song
This is when we lose it

Get down, get down like a gryphon in wonderland
Just as you crave the tempo of this song
Just as your body spells trouble in the disco

Serenade your soul
Spin the music through the door
Sink in the spirits of harmony
Becoming one with the sun behind the beat

Tonight you will drink and dream of love
You will throw down your cupid arrows
Hypnotized you feel your body in the middle of the dance floor

You're dancing day and night
You recognize this feeling
You're taking back, you're taking back you're freedom

Do you know where your body goes when you lose control?
Get down... let the groove take over

More is less is the momment that leads you high
Transcend catch the melodie that conditioned
Spins energy reaction to the limited eye
Manifest come,
Practice the live by
Transcend that build try to fortify
Communicate throught the body moving you

Serenade your soul
Spin the music through the door
Sink in the spirits of harmony
Becoming one with the sun behind the beat

Testify

iyeoka - the yellow brick road

I see this fantasy taking me from kansas to serenity
These dreams that seem to come from somewhere over the rainbow
These days seasons change just as quickly as a harmony
I need to escape to awaken a believable journey...

I know how possible we are
We can go and achieve the inconceivable
I know just how possible we are
We can follow our own yellow brick road

Pressing on in the eyes of a wise man's conspiracy
I come alive to achieve the spoken prophesy
My friends wonder how I know when the storm is coming
And I'm grateful for the moments that we build to become the
Creators of shakers and movers of the melody
We building our community... yeah!

There's no tornado that can stop us now

Pressing on in the eyes of the child that's inside of me
I believe the time has come for us to choose our unity
Each moment that we walk on the path that will guide us to our dream
We can sing another song that makes us feel we belong

Yeah, this is where we belong
We belong on this yellow brick road

So possible/this is where we belong
There's no tornado that can stop us now

iyeoka - this time around

If the only sun shining for me now
Is over a mountain or around a hill
If all I ever needed in this lifetime of unfamiliar
Was freedom from a wishing well

If we could ride a storm for a thousand years
Hands picking cotton till we all remembered how to heal
No matter what the song says, no matter what the soul says
This time around we're gonna know exactly why we came here

This time around the days are changing like never before
This time around all the world may never know
What happens if we stop dreaming

He remembers stepping out the front door into a storm of rain
She remembers feeling empty chasing old memories of better days
As simple as the air we breathe coming in a little cleaner
Take a moment to sing for love to bring on a new season for this change

This time around
(gonna watch the sun rise)
The days are changing
(take a moment to sing for love)
Like never before

Move your soul to let more love in
Find the door is finally open
See the dawn of a new day breaking
This time around

Take a moment to sing for love

iyeoka - hum the bassline

Imagine the world, the world, the world without a song
Without a bass, a bass, a bass without a drum
Can you imagine the night, the night, the night without the moon?
And when the daylight comes, it comes but it comes without you

See you are the song, the bass, the drum, the moon
You are the song to remember me, remember you, discover you
And the world is and we are so in move

So this is the place that always seems to be better than where you have been
So you run towards the new day rising in the distance
And you walk away from the days that found and fought you
You always seem to hear God when it comes
Even when it comes from the millions of voices that call to you
You make me want to listen for him a little bit harder too
You are a rose that blooms for a second chance on the all of the seasons
A wave that breaks on a shore left for decades deserted
You make me feel like you waited for us to exist
We are a translation of a perfection that just is
So take this hand from me
Show me to your world

Bring this dance alive
Your love can paralyze my feels of falling
Carry my heart slow, see
See, I swear where you go, I'll follow

See into my soul
And I will take you home to love you
'Coz this is a poem for love

Well, I can take one more day
Got to find my way with this one
To see the things I'm not great
All it leaves is a world falling apart
Falling into the deepest part of my heart
I can take my time
The life won't, won't just pass me by
I'ma stop tracing outlines
See this is the beauty of flowers growing underneath the sunshine
Knowing, water takes water to wine
Wine takes the grapes, grapes make the wine
And the wine breaks, breaks, breaks my veins
I see my, my name inscribing concrete walls
A day beyonds and centuries beyond
I can take myself away but not be gone
If I see my mind, hope on this time
Read the book each page and line by line by line
I can take my time or day to time
I speak my mind, I speak it all high
I speak this rhyme this time and never again, never again

Imagine the world, the world, the world without a song
Imagine the bass, the bass, the bass without the drum
Can you imagine the night, the night, the night without the moon?
And when the daylight comes it comes but it comes without you

See you are the song, the bass, the drum, the moon
You are the song to remember me, remember you, discover you
And the world is and we are so in move

Take this hand from me
Show me to your world
Bring this dance alive
Your love can paralyze my feels of falling
Carry my heart slow
I swear where you go, I'll follow
See into my soul
And I'll take you home to love you, love you, love you
I'll follow you yeah, I'll follow you yeah, yea
I'll follow you, I'll follow you, I'll follow you, I'll follow

iyeoka - poem for love

Imagine the world, the world, the world without a song
Without a bass, a bass, a bass without a drum
Can you imagine the night, the night, the night without the moon
And when the daylight comes, it comes, but it comes without you?
See you are the song, the bass, the drum, the moon
You are the song to remember me, remember you, discover you
And the world is and we are so in move

So this is the place that always seems to be better than where you have been
So you run towards the new day rising in the distance
And you walk away from the days that found and fought you
You always seem to hear God when it comes
Even when it comes from the millions of voices that call to you

You make me want to listen for him a little bit harder too
You are a rose that blooms for a second chance on the all of the seasons
A wave that breaks on a shore left for decades deserted
You make me feel like you waited for us to exist
We are a translation of a perfection that just is
So take this hand from me
Show me to your world

Bring this dance alive
Your love can paralyze my feels of falling
Carry my heart slow, see
See, I swear where you go, I'll follow
See into my soul
And I will take you home to love you
Coz this is a poem for love

Well, I can take one more day
Got to find my way with this one
To see the things I'm not great
All it leaves is a world falling apart
Falling into the deepest part of my heart
I can take my time
The life won't, won't just pass me by
I'ma stop tracing outlines
See this is the beauty of flowers growing underneath the sunshine

Knowing, water takes water to wine
Wine takes the grapes, grapes make the wine
And the wine breaks, breaks, breaks my veins
I see my, my name inscribing concrete walls
A day beyonds and centuries beyond
I can take myself away but not be gone
If I see my mind, hope on this time
Read the book each page and line by line by line
I can take my time or day to time
I speak my mind, I speak it all high
I speak this rhyme this time and never again, never again

Imagine the world, the world, the world without a song
Imagine the bass, the bass, the bass without the drum
Can you imagine the night, the night, the night without the moon
And when the daylight comes, it comes, but it comes without you?
See you are the song, the bass, the drum, the moon
You are the song to remember me, remember you, discover you
And the world is and we are so in move

Take this hand from me
Show me to your world
Bring this dance alive
Your love can paralyze my feels of falling
Carry my heart slow
I swear where you go, I'll follow
See into my soul
And I'll take you home to love you, love you, love you
I'll follow you yeah, I'll follow you yeah, yea
I'll follow you, I'll follow you, I'll follow you, I'll follow

iyeoka - soundtrack to life

I want to sing you a new song
I want to let go of old habbits
I wanna show the world how to embrace the day
With the soundtrack, with the sound track
To life

Lalala la la lalalalalalala lalala la la

One thousand mantras streaming in the background
With the message of the days saying all is well now
I wanna sing you a new song
I wanna let go of old habbits
I wanna break, wanna show the world
How to embrace the day
With the soundtrack, with the soundtrack
To life

Lalala la la lalalalalalala lalala la la

Playing in the background
With the trumpet of the day saying halleluja
I want to sing you a new song, a new song
I wanna let go of old habbits
I wanna break, I wanna break, I wanna show the world
How to embrace the day
With the soundtrack, with the soundtrack to life

Lalala la la lalalalalalala lalala la la

Let go baby, let go ooh
Let go baby, let go ooh
Lets go baby, lets go lalalala

I wanna you a new song
I wanna let go of old habbits
I wanna break, wanna show the world
How to embrace the day
With the soundtrack, with the soundtrack
To life

Lalala la la lalalalalalala lalala la la

One thousand mantras streaming in the background
With the message of the days saying all is well now

iyeoka - who would follow

Who Would Follow

If I were to fall, who would catch me?
I were to let go, who would follow?
I pray to see a grander scheme
I know I want it all, but what do I need?

I know I'm still chasing the pages
That turns from mediocre to amazing
From storm clouds to sunrises
I know we sometimes search for a hand
That could carry or feed us
But no other self can successfully
Define the freedoms of the mind
And the meanings of where I am supposed to be

I saw myself standing over the edge
Hoping something would hold me
Believing that someone would pull me back in
And then came the wind
Like a wave that chases miracles
I saw myself like a prayer that fulfills dreams
I saw myself standing there surviving everything

If I were to fall, who would catch me?
I were to let go, who would follow?
I pray to see a grander scheme
I know I want it all, but what do I need?

If I were to fall into a sea of oblivion
As I was walking on the sunny side of the street again
And I found myself surrounded by the
Darkness of my truest fears
I know without a doubt you would be there within
Arms stretched out pulling me near to the surface and
You remind me of dreams and aspirations
Calming my mind with no hesitations
Shed a tear for my tear search deep inside
Perfectly words will come to your mind
You combine the thoughts of your heart
Tell me when my head is too big
Like you do all the time

If I were to fall, who would catch me?
I were to let go, who would follow?
I pray to see a grander scheme
I know I want it all, but what do I need?

iyeoka