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Lagos, Nigeria

Ijapa And Fairy Tales Track 2 - Promises

Updated: Oct 9, 2022

The second track of the EP is a song about betrayal.


The lyrics explained


The song tells the story of a deep betrayal. The betrayed directly addresses the betrayer revealing how this experience feels like. The lyrics express the deep pain, disbelief and anger about the betrayer violating the trust of the betrayed. The betrayed is devastated and cannot cope with the loss yet.


See all of the things you do Shatter my heart in two I no believe say na you be the One wey go make me bleed

The betrayed slowly starts to realise that the relationship with the betrayer has been nothing more than a lie and illusion, that the betrayer deliberately hurt the betrayed out of selfish reasons while the choice could have been a different one.


Shey na like this You go dey look me o All of the promises You made nko

About the artwork

Orisa Oya, Yoruba weather deity

The Yoruba deity Oya is a warrior and often portrait in the battlefield and in the paths of full adventure.


The orisa controls the spirit of the ancestral dead with her irukere, a liturgical instrument made by a ponytail locked into a bone. She also carries a short sword in a shaft.


Oya is associated with the colors brown, dark red, burgundy or the colors of the rainbow.


Oya is referred to as the goddess of weather and can call forth lightning, storms, tornadoes and earthquakes.


Once angered, she can destroy villages and communities with floods and any other natural disaster she deems fit. She is fierce because she hates lies and injustice and would not refrain from pouring her wrath on those who dare her.

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