Chai,chai!

[INTRO — EXACTLY 8 SECONDS]

[DEEP MALE VOICE]
Chai…

[SWEET MELODIC WHISTLE]

Chinekeeeee…

[SHORT OGENE HIT]

[FULL GROOVE]


[VERSE 1 — MALE]

The world wears a thousand faces…
[FEMALE, softly]
Yes, ooo…

But tonight I only see yooouuurs…
[FEMALE]
Uuuulala…

You wear the kind of beauty
that makes silence stare…

Ị bụ onye m hụrụ n'abalị a…

I left my worries at the door,
came dressed in rhythm tonight.

The earth remembers every foot
that finds its rhythm.

No be every fire dey burn the same…

Ma ọkụ a na-enwu n'ime m…

My roots know the language of the drum.

I buried my yesterday beneath the DRUUUUM!

[BIG DEEP DRUM HIT]


[PRE-CHORUS — FEMALE]

Let the night wash the dust from our hearts…

Let the moon forget the shape of our scars…

Ka nsogbu niile laa…

Tonight, my heart remembers how to breathe…

[BIG RISING VOCAL]
Breeeathe…


[CHORUS — BOTH]

EVERYBODY GET RHYTHM IN THE BLOOOOD!

[BAM! BAM! BAM!]

Ọ dị n'ọbara!

Rhythm in the blood!

EVERYBODY GET RHYTHM IN THE BLOOOOD!

[BIG DRUM HIT]

RHYTHM IN THE BLOOOOD!

[CROWD — ONE BIG RESPONSE]
RHYTHM IN THE BLOOD!


[SHORT PARTY GROOVE]

[MALE — PLAYFUL]
Ooo-oya… ooo-oya…

[FEMALE — MELODIC]
Ooo-oooh… aaah-aaah…

[MALE]
Chai… chai…

[SWEET WHISTLE]


[VERSE 2 — FEMALE]

I walked into the night
with a heart full of weather…

And the drums began
to clear my sky.

Your eyes found mine
through a thousand people…

And suddenly the room turned slow.

Tonight, the river
carries yesterday away.

Ị bịara dịka nzuzo abalị na-eche…

You look like a secret
the night kept waiting…

[MALE, softly]
Chai…

I buried my sorrow
where the red earth sleeps.

No be money, no be diamond…

Ọṅụ a abụghị ihe ego pụrụ ịzụta.

Tonight I let my heavy heart flyyyyy…

[FEMALE — VOCAL FLOURISH]
Fly-aa-aa-aa…


[SHORT HOOK]

[MALE — CALLING FROM A DISTANCE]
You got rhythm in your bloooood!

[FEMALE — ANSWERING]
I got rhythm in my so-o-ooul!

[BOTH]
Ọ dị n'ọbara!


[SHORT CHORUS]

EVERYBODY GET RHYTHM IN THE BLOOOOD!

[BAM! BAM! BAM!]

Ọ dị n'ọbara!

Rhythm in the blood!

RHYTHM IN THE BLOOOOD!

[CROWD — ONE RESPONSE]
RHYTHM IN THE BLOOD!


[DEEP VIOLIN BREAK — EMOTIONAL SIGNATURE]

[PARTY GROOVE DROPS COMPLETELY]

[DEEP, WARM, SOULFUL VIOLIN]

[VERY SUBTLE RIVER AMBIENCE — ONLY 8 SECONDS]

[MALE — VERY LOW, INTIMATE, TREMBLING]

I built a fortress…

around my heaaart…

[VIOLIN ANSWERS]

So I could forget…

the judgments of the world…

[LONG VIOLIN PHRASE]

Tonight…

my heart makes the rules…

Obi m…

[SOFT, TREMBLING]

Ị na-abiaaa…?

[FEMALE — VERY SOFT]

Ị na-abịa…?

[TINY PAUSE]

[MALE — ALMOST WHISPERED]

Ị na-abiaaa…?

[FEMALE — EMOTIONAL FLOURISH]

Ị na-abiaaa…?

[TINY SILENCE]

[MALE — DEEP]

Chai…

[SWEET WHISTLE]

Chinekeeeee…

[HIGHER SWEET WHISTLE]

[ONE FINAL VIOLIN PHRASE]


[FINAL EXPLOSION]

[MASSIVE DRUM HIT]

[BAM! BAM! BAM!]

[OGOENE + EKWE + UDU + FULL AFROBEAT DRUMS + DEEP BASS + HIGHlife GUITAR]

[MALE — DEEP, JOYFUL, POWERFUL]

I BURIED MY YESTERDAY
BENEATH THE DRUUUUUM!

[BIG DRUM HIT]

[FEMALE]

AND TONIGHT WE RISE AGAIN!

[MALE]

No be yesterday!

[FEMALE]

NOT TONIGHT!

[BOTH — BIG RISING VOCALS]

WE GOT RHYTHM IN THE BLOOOOOD!

[CROWD — ONE HUGE RESPONSE]

RHYTHM IN THE BLOOD!

[MALE — DEEP, JOYFUL]

Chai! Chai!

[TWO SWEET WHISTLES]

[FEMALE — SOARING]

Chinekeeeee!

[BOTH]

Ọ dị n'ọbara!

RHYTHM IN THE BLOOOOD!

[FINAL OGENE + MASSIVE DRUM HIT]

[END]