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Say Yes

by Iyeoka

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1.
The Yellow Brick Road Song 03:40 video
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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 prophecy 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
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Say Yes 03:24 video
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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
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This Time Around 03:28
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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
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Breakdown Mode 03:03
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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
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Millionaire 04:01
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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 season’s 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
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Simply Falling 03:58 video
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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 There my heart goes again In your arms I’m falling deeper And there’s nothing to break me away from this
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Testify 03:40
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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 your freedom Do you know where your body goes when you lose control? Get down Let the groove take over
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I Travel Home 03:36
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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
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Happily Ever After 03:42
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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
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I Am Descending 04:03
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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 you
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My Current Anthem 02:26
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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 line Remember the road is on time with your arrival And your next moment to shine flies on the horizon

credits

released November 9, 2010

Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo: Words, vocals, and percussion
David Franz: Drums, guitars, bass, keys, strings, horns, percussion
B © a p: MC on “The Yellow Brick Road Song,” “Millionaire,” and “Testify”
Francis Phan: Keyboards on “I Am Descending” and “This Time Around”
JJ Reichert: Guitar on “Testify”
Will Robertson: Upright bass on “Happily Ever After”
Ryan Perez-Daple: Horns on “Simply Falling”

All songs written by Iyeoka and David Franz, published by Iyeoka Music Publishing (ASCAP) / Underground Sun Music (BMI), except “This Time Around” and “I Am Descending” written by Iyeoka, David Franz, and Francis Phan, published by Iyeoka Music Publishing (ASCAP) / Underground Sun Music (BMI) / Phanai Music (ASCAP)

Produced, engineered, and mixed by David Franz at Underground Sun Studio
Mastered by Pete Doell at Universal Mastering Studios West
Artwork and Design by Dez Einswell
Photography by Jayson Fann
Big Business by Alex Beguin

Managing Executive Producers:
Francis Phan and David Franz

Executive Producers: Georgia Madway, Mikael O’Neil, Rob Shavell, Tina Hall and Jud Horner

Album Backers: Ino Okoawo, Bryan Calhoun, E.Scott Owen, Kim Howard, Pamela Gasek, Angie Reichert Hawkins, Danielle Veno, Phil Kasiecki, Pat Phillips, Benjamin Fahrer, Joyce Cunha, Jerilyn Hesse, Yokimbo, Hayami Arakawa, Justin Shatwell, Kelvin Knuckles, Kevin Chamberlain, Mary Ward, Dawn Smalls, David Kay, Jessi Colund, Paula Fuga, Smita Sane, Robert Bannister, Dave Ring, Deborah Frieze, Richard Wilson, and David Robertson. Thank you all so much for your support via Kickstarter! You made this album possible.

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Iyeoka Boston, Massachusetts

Nigerian-American recording artist, poet and TED Fellow from Boston, MA. Iyeoka’s powerful vocals melt like better over an eclectic mix of afrobeat, pop, jazz, dance and rock.

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