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A huge hello to everyone in the @musiczone community. I hope you all are doing great and are as fine as can be.

It is another wonderful week of the Hive Music Festival–Week 186, Round 3, and I am particularly excited about the reunion I have prepared for this week's challenge. My rendition for this week's hive music festival entry is a country song that I really love titled FIRE AWAY.

Chris Stapleton is just so good at what he does and I am in awe of his talent and skill every time I happen upon his music. Fire Away is what I would call a country ballad, a slow-paced story told with the utmost emotion and narrated using all the right instruments necessary to convey the message that the song is screaming into the world – a tale of persevering, unconditional love, a tale of a kind of live that stays through hardships and difficulties.

This is best demonstrated by the official music video of the song, which I consider to be an absolutely brilliant creation. The video was released on YouTube 10 years ago now, but it remains as relevant today as it was all those years ago when it was first released.

This is the link to the official music video of the song.

https://youtu.be/ZI-aPHeUDlk?si=SCPT-Bdy6EG6fxCP

The original song itself does not have too many elements in it, but I sure had a great time stripping it down even further to just one instrument - the acoustic guitar, and my voice. With just a few chords, an entire life story is told. You can hear me straining a bit while vocalizing the high notes on 'fire away.' Lol. I do hope in time to improve my voice and get a wider and stronger vocal range out of my vocal cords.

Thank you so much for taking time out of your busy schedule to give me an audience.

Have a blessed day.

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A huge hello to everyone in the @musiczone community. It is another wondrous week to share and enjoy varied musical renditions from varied musical talents all across the globe. I look forward to watching some of the renditions by other members of the community.

This is week 185 of the Hive Music Festival and this week I have chosen to serve up a rendition of an old classic by an artist I would consider for the title of King of Soul. The song is titled Hit The Road Jack.

Ray Charles was a revolutionary musician, a Black-American Singer-songwriter and pianist who was almost singlehandedly responsible for the birth of soul music in the 1950s.

Although originally written by Percy Mayfield after a failed romantic adventure, the song was later recorded and released by Ray Charles in 1960 and it went on to top the charts and later win a Grammy for Best Rhythm and Blues recording.

I personally love this song so much because it has such a swingy jive feel to it. The moment I start playing it, I'm taken back in my mind to a dusty old ballroom in the Wild West or something😂. A pretty woman in my hands, a revolver sheathed in my waist, and a half-full bottle of whiskey on the table waiting for me to be done dancing.

There's just something about the upbeat rhythm of the chords that make it danceable on almost any instrument. The lyrics of the song also add a lot of depth to the song. A song about heartbreak will always be relatable anyways.

I hope to someday be half the musician that Ray Charles was.

There is a 2004 biopic about Ray Charles's life that starrs Jamie Foxx as Ray Charles, you should check it out and watch it. I promise you'll love it.

Here is a link to a live performance of the original song on YouTube, straight from the horse's mouth.

https://youtu.be/CyVuYAHiZb8?si=I3PgWE_J0N-6geK4

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=emmaba1/49ae3057
A short acoustic cover of a country song titled Joy and Despair, composed by Charles Noordewier.

Enjoy.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=emmaba1/ixcihazi
A huge hello from all my fellow musical hivers in this community. It is an absolute pleasure of mine to be here again to bring you this performance this week.

It is week 170 round 2 of the Hive Music Festival organized by the @musiczone community. I just want to say how awesome it is that amateur musicians like me have been given this stellar opportunity in the form of a neutral platform to share our talents and get recognized and rewarded for our efforts. And even though, I am not the most consistent person of this platform, it is still always an absolute pleasure whenever I'm able to get away from my day job and make an appearance here.

The song I will be performing this week is titled **It'll be okay** by **Shawn Mendez.** This song as far as I am concerned, is probably Shawn Mendez's magnum opus. It is a very heavy song with deep lyrics that most people will certainly be able to relate to. The slow pace of the song really allows ample time for the lyrics to sink into your soul and pierce even the thickest layers of protection, revealing that emotional being underneath.

The song is essentially about realizing the fact that a relationship is not going to ripen until death the way you'd initially imagined. But instead of freaking out with arms flailing in the air and tears welling up in your eyes till they block out the light rays, you just accept your fate in a stoic fashion. I suppose it is funny in a way, but only in retrospect, as someone who has actually been in such a situation before.

I love the lyrics so much, and I also particularly love the visual imagery in the official music video of the song, which shows Shawn Mendez alone walking down the street as he sings the song. I think it really depicts the aloneness and loneliness that stems from such a situation and how it would typically take a while to begin to feel whole again.

I do hope you thoroughly enjoy this song as much as I do.

**Here are the lyrics.**

Are we gonna make it?

Is this gonna hurt?

Oh, we can try to sedate it

But that never works

Yeah

I start to imagine a world where we don't collide

It's making me sick, but we'll heal and the sun will rise

If you tell me you're leaving, I'll make it easy

It'll be okay

If we can't stop the bleeding

We don't have to fix it, we don't have to stay

I will love you either way

Ooh-ooh, it'll be oh, be okay

Ooh-ooh

Oh, the future we dreamed of is fading to black

Oh

Oh, there's nothing more painful

Nothing more painful, oh-woah

I start to imagine a world where we don't collide

And it's making me sick, but we'll heal and the sun will rise

If you tell me you're leaving, I'll make it easy

It'll be okay (It'll be okay)

And if we can't stop the bleeding

We don't have to fix it, we don't have to stay (don't have to stay)

I will love you either way

Ooh-ooh, it'll be oh, be okay

Ooh-ooh

I will love you either way

It might be so sweet

It might be so bitter

I will love you either way

It might be so sweet

It might be so bitter (ooh-ooh)

Oh, if the future we've dreamed of is fading to black

I will love you either way

Source: LyricFind

Songwriters: Eddie Benjamin / Michael Sabath / Scott Harris / Shawn Mendes

**Here is a link to the official music video of the song.**

https://youtu.be/KrgJp7Z1Hv8?si=LPDOHvzNOw6gRry2

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=emmaba1/dzpbbcjg
This is my entry for The Song Challenge for the year 2025. Phase 2. This song is an original composition of mine titled HEALING BY FIBROSIS.

This song has a particularly interesting history because, first of all, it was not one of those songs that just burst out of me in one continuous, unbroken go. The song came together over a span of about 10-11 months, piece by piece, verse by verse, till I was left with one coalesced, tightly knit song that somehow felt like it indeed burst out of me in a singular moment borne by intense passion. Although, it didn't start out as a crazy, heartfelt, passionate song, in time, it came to be that way, and no other way.

The year was 2020, the month was January, and I was about one week away from my second professional medical board exams, or MB2, as we call it. I was in my room, revising a pathology slide which was titled WOUND HEALING, and I'm sure by now you can guess that that's where the title of the song came from, its birthing place. One of the ways a wound can heal is by fibrosis, that is when it leaves a scar.

Something sparked within me and I grabbed my guitar, and I began to sing what would eventually become the chorus of this song.

*This is healing by fibrosis

This is healing by fibrosis

This is healing by fibrosis

This is healing with a scar*

I then continued reading or went on to do whatever else it was I did that day. Months down the line, around July that year, it was the middle of the lockdown which was as a result of the corona virus pandemic and I had been writing a lot of poems and songs with all the free time I had. That particular day, I stumbled upon the voice recording of the chorus I had made in January, and decided to make it into a full song, so I got to work and wrote the first verse, which is more like four verses really. Lol. But I didn't finish it that day.

Another few months passed and we're in October or November by now, I came across the incomplete song in my songbook and finally decided to work up the courage to finish it up, so I wrote the second verse and the bridge. And voila, the song was finally complete.

Ultimately, this song of mine is the story of a guy who was heartbroken, healed with a scar, and now finds it hard to give in to love coz of the hurt it had given him in the past.

Don't be like him. Love with reckless abandon nonetheless. Be better.

Enjoy.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=emmaba1/nkjufpui
This is my entry for The Song Challenge for the year 2025. Phase 1. An original composition of mine titled CHANGE IS A CONSTANT.

I previously had no idea that this challenge even existed until just a few days ago, and how glad I was. I've never really had the opportunity to put any of my original songs out there, for many reasons. I have never been really financially bouyant enough to get any of them produced professionally. I also have the occasional bout of doubt and imposter syndrome in my abilities as a songwriter and musician generally, so much so that I often shy away from putting my work out there. But I realize that fortune only favors the bold so I've been dealing with that, and this platform is one of those that help me deal with that. Here, I have found acceptance for my beginner music and I am very grateful for that, beyond what I can fully express.

The song I play in this video post is an unreleased song of mine titled CHANGE IS A CONSTANT. I wrote the song early this year, sometime in late May. The song is mostly self-explanatory and is the summation of two to three major life events that happened to me around the time.

I had graduated last year October as a medical doctor. Early in April, I left my residential town of Ibadan, Nigeria to go commence my one year of compulsory housemanship or internship in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti state, Nigeria. This is how the song starts, and what the first half of the first verse talks about.

The rest of the verses detail some circumstances that contributed to me wanting to move. I had a huge falling out with my dad in February that led to him disowning me and me being unapologetic about anything and going willfully into exile. Before you go ahead and judge me, as I can sense some will do, remember, you don't know all the details. That some month in February, my girlfriend of over 6 months broke up with me, not coz either of us did anything, coz we were perfect for each other, but over differences in religious beliefs at the time. So much has been left unsaid but all of these culminated into the chorus.

The chorus, in conjunction with the bridge is a statement of acceptance. A choice not to wallow in self-pity or any other wasteful emotion. Something that says “I realize this is a change, and change is a constant, and with change being the only constant thing in life, the only choice left is to accept the changes while praying, hoping, and working you way better days.

I hope there is a lesson in here somewhere for anyone who listens to my song. Thank you.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=emmaba1/yydyfjvs
Hello, fellow musical Hivers.

Today, I would be posting a cover of one of my favorite **John Mayer** songs ever– **Dear Marie.**

Some John Mayer fans might not have paid attention to it, but I personally think that this is one of the saddest songs John Mayer has ever written. And there is story behind it. The story goes thus.

John Mayer has said the inspiration for the song came to him on a Sunday when he was surfing the net and searching for an old ex, who happens to have been his very first girlfriend ever who he met when they were both 15 years old.

I think it is simultaneously a very cute and very sad storyline.

Anyways, let's halt the long talk, enjoy the song.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=emmaba1/vnlcqcmj
Hello, my fellow musical hivers.

It's another beautiful day to share some beautiful music with you.

This time, I'm performing a classic country song that virtually everyone must have heard at one point or the other before. The song is none other than the famous **Country Roads by John Denver.** I especially love its use as a filmscore in the movie **Kingsman 2.** That scene before the final fight where Merlin switches places with Eggsy and blows up as he reaches the climax of the song, killing some of the antagonist's henchmen.

If you cannot relate coz you haven't watched the movie, here's a link to the scene of which I speak.

https://youtu.be/-9EGOup8cKU?si=46eO8FKhIwEyGDAx

Do enjoy my humble acoustic cover of this timeless classic.

Thank you.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=emmaba1/idwlmdwa
Hello, my fellow musocal Hivers.

It is my utmost pleasure to share this short spontaneous musical performance with you all.

I believe I first heard this song on YouTube via a random recommendation over a year ago. It has since become one of my favorite city songs ever.

Do enjoy my humble acoustic cover of this masterpiece.

Thanks, and see ya.

https://3speak.tv/watch?v=emmaba1/booenshn
**Hello, you beautiful Hivers.**

I'm more than excited to post some music here.

This is an acoustic guitar cover of one song that I have loved for a very long time now – DON'T LOOK BACK IN ANGER.

The first time I heard this song, I believe it was an instrumental version, an acoustic fingerstyle guitar version by someone I can't remember right now. I was so enthralled by the melody and harmony of the song that I had to go look for the original song, which just blew me away with it's classic rock vibe and beautiful lyrics. As a guitarist myself, the guitar solo in the original song is simply one of a kind. The kind of solo every guitarist should learn.

Well, here is my humble acoustic cover of a rock classic by an iconic band. Do enjoy it.

**Here are the lyrics of the song.**

Slip inside the eye of your mind

Don't you know you might find

A better place to play?

You said that you'd never been

But all the things that you've seen

Slowly fade away

So I start a revolution from my bed

'Cause you said the brains I had went to my head

Step outside, summertime's in bloom

Stand up beside the fireplace

Take that look from off your face

You ain't ever gonna burn my heart out

And so, Sally can wait

She knows it's too late as we're walking on by

Her soul slides away

But don't look back in anger, I heard you say

Take me to the place where you go

Where nobody knows if it's night or day

Please don't put your life in the hands

Of a rock 'n' roll band

Who'll throw it all away

I'm gonna start a revolution from my bed

'Cause you said the brains I had went to my head

Step outside, 'cause summertime's in bloom

Stand up beside the fireplace

Take that look from off your face

'Cause you ain't ever gonna burn my heart out

And so, Sally can wait

She knows it's too late as she's walking on by

My soul slides away

But don't look back in anger, I heard you say

So, Sally can wait

She knows it's too late as we're walking on by

Her soul slides away

But don't look back in anger, I heard you say

So, Sally can wait

She knows it's too late as she's walking on by

My soul slides away

But don't look back in anger, don't look back in anger

I heard you say

At least not today

Here is a link to the original song and its music video on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/cmpRLQZkTb8?si=S9oe4NH9fuI2B2oS