Cobhams- Ordinary People

This morning, I was looking through my music playlist and a song signified its attention to me. Cobhams Asuquo is a name that we are very familiar with. This guy whom everyone loves has been making waves since he came into the limelight. Despite his condition, he is one of the renowned producers of Nigerian music. He featured in some episodes of the last MTN Project Fame.

Cobhams’s song under critic today is Ordinary People. Before I say anything about this song, I advise that if you don’t have this song already, then go on to get it. It’s the kind of song you would want to listen to every time. Quite inspirational and uplifting, the message it passes across is very

distinguishable. Let’s now look into the song and deduce for ourselves what Cobhams is telling us.

“A child in the distance, playing in the rain, sweet sound of water flowing away. Construction workers coming home from work. Parents and their children going to church. Happy little baby drools on your shirt, one extraordinary day.” All this are the normal activities we go through in our everyday life. Going forward in our routines or ritual, the particular way in which we do things. It might all seem to be the normal activity but there is always something unusual happening everyday which makes every day extraordinary.

Looking at the second verse of the song it says “ordinary Abraham, he was just a man. But he’d kill his son for the price of a lamb. Let us consider ordinary Job who lost it all but in God had his hope. Ordinary David, little shepherd boy, brought down the lion with a stone and a twine. Sweet little Jesus ordinary child, the carpenter’s first son humble and mild. If anybody told you he’d be Messiah probably he’d laugh it off I know.” This just opens more doors to people who had always lived an ordinary life and were human like you and I but something happened in their life which made them do things extraordinary. Abraham was only a man who resided among his people in Harran until he was called out by God to leave for a place he would show him. After all this happened, Abraham was not the same man as the one who left his people. Job also was a successful man having so many things but one fateful day he lost it all. He never for once let his trust in God waver. At the end God rewarded him for his perseverance. David also was a boy who looked after his father’s sheep but a moment came in his life when he had to make a decision and that was the extraordinary moment of his life starting. Jesus Christ was also born like every other man, bred like every other Jewish child but he grew up to fulfill his destiny of being the Messiah of the world.

The next set of verse we are looking at says “every little baby has the power to be great and every tall tree grew up from mustard seed. No ordinary children going off to war, no single leader is worth dying for. No ordinary mother would cry herself to sleep; no ordinary father would come home after three.” It shows here that everyone being in this world means there is that little opportunity we will get to make things extraordinary for ourselves. For us to become extraordinary we don’t have to wait till that moment of opportunity, let’s start from somewhere little. Not just anybody can face anybody can face kind of trouble; you have to be prepared for it. Everything that we do or go through is not always our own doing but the way we come out of it is ours to decide.

The chorus of this song says “let us have a world of ordinary people, living life the way God wants us to. If we have a world of ordinary people, extraordinary things will happen to me and you.” This just caps up all he had been saying. If we all try to live an ordinary life just following the principles lay down by God, then we can be sure of extraordinary things happening to us.

Just as I said in the beginning of this post, Cobhams is a great artiste and this song just proved it more how good he can be. Once again if you haven’t got this song, I advise that you go on to get it and I said in my review and critic of Asa’s Dead Again, listen to the music and you can come back to tell me if I had a good understanding of the music or I completely missed the point the song was talking about. You want to know what I generally think about secular music, check my post Here

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