Bamidele (Follow Me Home)
Asa's Bamidele is a strongly written and content heavy-laden lyrical construction of poignant verses. This song moves something in me. It's almost as though I can envision what she's feeling, what emotion she's trying to evoke in the listener. I used to listen to this song without lyrical translation. The simple melody of her voice along with the musical flow of the lyrics and instruments moved me with an element of awe and imminent devastation of the character she was singing about. Initially, I never understood what she was singing but I was sure it had been about something sad, a man and a woman and love. I used to think it was about a generic story of love gone wrong. Yet once I caught hold of the lyrics and listened to the song along with the words she was singing, the combination of an eloquent story she was singing and the sorrow in her voice seemed to have only spoken to me played. The music flowed on the empathy of ...