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Ascendance
03:27
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Ascendance
Ascendance aint nothing but higher ground
When your caught up in your undertow
And life can bring you all so low
Into the chasm where you might find some semblance of something
Just like Ascendance
Ascendance yeah aint nothing but
Nothing but
Nothing but
Nothing but higher ground
Your heart strings break they’re pulled so tight
You’re rolling in the dead of night
Say when the nightmare becomes a sweet dream
Of something just like ascendance
Ascendance aint nothing but
Nothing but
Nothing but
Nothing but higher ground
Ascendance is not hard to find
it’s just freedom in your state of mind
To choose the highways and byways to vistas of new life
And something just like ascendance
Ascendance yeah aint nothing but
Nothing but
Nothing But
Nothing but higher ground
Repeat
Ascendance yeah
©Ayo Bamidele 2020
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Navy Blue
03:02
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Navy Blue
Hey Navy Blue
Mother nature never got a hold on you
Where’d you come from?
Hey Navy Blue
Did you come here from another realm?
On a spaceship with you at the helm
Hey Navy Blue
You enter hearts at a tender age
And in those hearts there you stay
Older folks want to thank you too
You stayed true Navy Blue
Hey Navy Blue
I get a sense of security
Some semblance of certainty, melancholia and healing too
There’s warmth down in the roots of you – Hey Navy Blue
I’ve got a feeling that there might be
A universe I could crawl to
Through a worm hole so I can see where our origins might be
And of you too Navy Blue
Hey Navy Blue
Mother nature never got a hold on you
Hey Navy Blue
Where’d you come from?
Hey Navy Blue
©Ayo Bamidele 2021
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Birds Fly South for The Winter
Birds fly south for the winter,
They look for warmer climes
They take their lives at their command
They are not tide to just one land
Birds fly south for the winter
They don’t wait for need and hunger
Through cross winds west and east
For harvest for a feast
Oh sweet soul of mine
Won’t you learn to clime
When I reach those times
I need some peace of mind
Birds fly south for the winter - yes they do
Birds fly south for the winter – oh yes they do
Birds fly south for the winter - they do, they do, oh yes they do
Birds fly south for the winter to drink from pure clean lakes
Oh they fly as one
To find that healing sun
Oh sweet thirst of mine
Won’t you be satisfied with some pure clean water
To sooth this soul of mine
Birds fly south for the winter - yes they do
Birds fly south for the winter – oh yes they do
Birds fly south for the winter - they do, they do, oh yes they do
Birds fly south for the winter - yes they do
Birds fly south for the winter – oh yes they do
Birds fly south for the winter - they do, they do, oh yes they do
©Ayo Bamidele 2021
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Promises
02:51
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Promises
You’re stuck in a moment and you can’t escape
You came here for just a while but it’s a permanent state
Your leaning tower of lies fell down
Your people disappeared long before it even hit the ground
Promises – lies like butterflies have upped and flown
Promises – words not worth the paper they were written on
Promises - they washed us down
Promises - we drank them down empty
And it’s a long long road
but you won’t get there You’re stuck here
Promises - like an hourglass that can’t be flipped
Life slips away in the depths of it
The time you stole can’t be replaced
But there’s such relief on everybody’s fsace
Now you’re gone
Promises - on your deceit a light was shone
The power that you had is gone
Promises - your leaning tower of lies fell down
Your people disappeared long long before it even hit the ground
Promises - words like butterflies have upped and flown
Promises words not worth the paper they were written on
Promises
Promises
©Ayo Bamidele 2021
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The Journey's The Prize
02:53
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The Journey’s the Prize
It came down to me like a bolt from above
How blessed we have been with this path before us
We travel together not as two but as one
And pray that this journey will never be done
The journey’s the prize yes it is
The journey’s the prize yes it is
With no destination loves our guiding light
We are surrounded by beauty
So let’s take in the sight
Days disappear and time never slows
As years go by the more we come to know
The Journey’s the prize yes it is
The Journey’s the prize yes it is, yes it is
The road may be long
Let’s walk it together
With no end in sight
Let’s walk it for ever
The Journey’s the prize yes it is
The Journey’s the prize yes it is
©Ayo Bamidele 2021
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The Man Who Stole the Sun
The posse left here just yesterday
loaded their guns saddled up and now they’re on their way
They are going to find him come what may
Who stole the warmth from everyone
The light that shone since time began
Now they call dark times
Now they call it dark times
Who stole sun
Who stole the sun
In every doorway every alley way
He can run but he can’t hide
There are going to find him come what may
And when they find him woe woe betide
Who stole the sun
Who stole the sun
Who stole the warmth from everyone
The light that shone since time began
Now they call it dark times
Dark times – who stole the sun
Who stole the sun
©Ayo Bamidele 2021
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7. |
On Flows The River
03:54
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On Flows the River
I took my dive many years ago
Don’t know where it come from
Don’t know where it goes
But where it takes me that’s where I will go
Can’t stop the river so let the river flow
Don’t know where it come from
Don’t know where it goes
I know the pain I’ve felt it just stems the flow
So I guess I’ll just have to let it go
Can’t stop the river
I lay on my back and just enjoy the view
Blessings fall on me like pure mountain dew
I don’t know where it comes from don’t know where it goes
But where it takes me that’s where I will go
Can’t stop the river so let the river flow
Can’t stop the river so let the river flow
Can’t stop the river so let the river flow
Can’t stop the river so let the river flow
Repeat
©Ayo Bamidele 2021
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8. |
Good To Be Alive
02:47
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Good To Be Alive
I awoke one wonderous morning at sunrise
Light filled the room and choral voices they sung to me
Said it’s good to be alive, it’s good to be alive
So I went for walk and heard the wind rustling leaves
In top of the trees and sunlight seeped through
All glistening white and it spoke to me
Said it’s good to be alive
it’s good to be alive
It’s good to be alive
I only hope I always feel inside
A sense of thanks
For this sweet earth and all it provides
it’s good to be alive
It’s good to be alive
Ain’t it strange how the simplest things can shine so brightly
Like point cut diamonds in lines of gold
it’s good to be alive, it’s good to be alive
it’s good to be alive, it’s good to be alive
©Ayo Bamidele 2021
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9. |
Once Was A Seeker
02:14
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Once was a seeker
Once there was a seeker sought this world to find
All they thought they needed
Didn’t know that they were blind
Walked this earth in circles only to find
All the thing the needed were there at their side
Once there was a seeker searched this world to find
All they thought they needed
Didn’t know they were blind
Walked this earth in circles only to find
All the thing the needed they had left behind
Once there was a seeker
Once there was a seeker
©Ayo Bamidele 2021
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Late To Be Wise
03:25
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Late to be wise
It’s clear to see that you think the world’s on fire
And you’re running low on desire
But way we live here today brings so much more than yesterday
And you have hope in tomorrow yeah
You have hope in tomorrow yeah
And we won’t be late to be wise
It’s clear to see the weight of the world on your shoulder
But you’re looking strong and bolder
Cause way we live here today brings so much more than yesterday
And you have hope in tomorrow yeah
in tomorrow yeah
You have in tomorrow
And we won’t be late to be wise
We won’t be late to be wise
You still have in tomorrow
In tomorrow yeah
©Ayo Bamidele 2021
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Ayo Bamidele London, UK
Acoustic folk and soul artist that has played his own original material for over 25 years. Often compared to artists such
as
Richie Havens, Tracy Chapman, Labi Siffre and Nina Simone. Early Influences include The Jam The Clash and The Specials, a social conscious streak is still evident in his music today. Expect soulful vocals, delicate guitar work and songs of life’s loves, losses and joys.
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