Yebba - October Sky (Live)
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Published 2021-06-11
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Production Company: Happy Place
Director: Francesco Carrozzini
Vocals: Yebba
Guitar: Charles Myers
Creative Producer: Tara Razavi
Line Producer: Allison Acevedo
Post Producer: Tony Stackhouse
Production Manager: Allison Gale
DP: Marz Miller
AD: Dwayne Logan
1st AC: Sean Collins / Geoff Storts
Art Director: Selby Knoblock
Audio Record and Mix engineer: Gloria Kaba
Key Grip: William Allmendinger
Gaffer: Andrew Babin
Styling: Kenn Law
Key Makeup: Jose Corella
Key Hair: Jhonatan Rendon
Post Coordinator: Jonathan Kimmel
Editor: Stephen Forner // Bonch
Color: Beau Leon // Framestore
Beauty: Arianna Shining Star
Post P.A.: Damian Giampietro
Management: Park Avenue Artists
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“October Sky”
Well she slid down the hall in her socks & yelled “come outside!...
No no no, nothings wrong
I just happen to have a surprise.”
So we fell through the door like the autumn leaves
And I wrestled my brother down to his knees
Just to watch as her rocket shot into the
So we fell through the door like the autumn leaves
And I wrestled my brother down to his knees
Just to watch as her rocket shot into the
October Sky
There’s a picture of us
In a layer of dust
On the mantle,
right by my cigarettes that I smoke
Since you left
Cause you said you had to fly
In your October Sky,
La da di da da da di
Now I work in the city & I blend into the crowd
& the people grieve with me since the towers came down.
You could cut the pollution with a butterknife
You could wake up at 2 and then party all night
But I’m missing my momma so I’ll stand on the street and get high.
There’s a picture of us
In a layer of dust
On the mantle,
right by my cigarettes that I smoke
Since you left
Cause you said you had to fly
In your October Sky,
La da di da da da di
Now I work in the city & I blend into the crowd
& the people grieve with me since the towers came down.
You could cut the pollution with a butterknife
You could wake up at 2 and then party all night
But I’m missing my momma so I’ll stand on the street and get high.
There’s a picture of us
In a layer of dust
On the mantle,
right by my cigarettes that I smoke
Since you left
Cause you said you had to fly
In your October Sky,
La da di da da da di
As I go back home to Memphis,
I remember days that I
Was outside shooting rockets
Almost as high
In your october...
Your October...
October..
In your October Sky,
La da di da da da di
#yebba #octobersky
All Comments (21)
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"As I go back home to memphis" - literally goes to memphis just to sing it in a field.
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Whats up yall its yebs. ima be in the comments when this thang premiers. see u in a little while. love
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October Sky builds a quiet symphony around a particularly potent memory of Yebba’s mother—a high school science teacher who sometimes brought home the bottle rockets her students had constructed for class. “I wrote this whole story about remembering her sliding down the hall and telling us ‘Come outside we’re shooting off bottle rockets,’” Yebba explains. “That memory came to me and the words just spilled out: this story of her and the promise that she broke, in a way, because she killed herself in October. I genuinely feel like she was standing there in the room with me as I was writing it, in my studio apartment in Brooklyn.”
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Mrs. Yebba my son Joshua died last week. He was humble, respectful, and loving. He was homeless in L.A. . He was found in a sleep position. Joshua was an October baby. This is all I hear since I got the news. I wish I can sing this song for him. This is my son's song. Thank you Mrs. Smith
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2016: I cannot WAIT for her debut album 2021: I cannot WAIT for her debut album
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There is not one song from Yebba that doesn’t leave me with goosebumps. This song is so beautiful. So much love for you 🤎🥂
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Yebba soothes the wounded child in me that just misses her mother.
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As a mother. This song brings me to tears every time. I am a suicide survivor and it’s is just so beautiful to see this woman perform with so much heart and strength. I wish I could comfort her the way I comfort my own, but nothing will ever replace the loss. I just know her mom is so Fucking proud of her. 😭 I am a river of tears and I will replay this song till I’m dried out. Because crying is healing ❤️🩹
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Yebba, I know you're reading this so wanted to let you know Evergreen helped me process my grandpa's passing in 2017. He's my lucky penny. Anywho, I love you.
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This live version is just on another level. Bonkers.
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My mother also committed suicide recently. This is just... So much. I don't really have the words. I feel that pain and confusion and betrayal and sadness wrapped up in this song. Yebba, your music makes me cry and those tears are such a release. Thank you for your artistry, vulnerability, and strength
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Everything you do is a masterpiece!
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Yebba, your voice is like a spiritual transportation into another universe. Every single song. Every single time.
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the "Alone" part is FIREEEEE!!! WOWWWWWW
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I'm 62 and my chronological musical discography has been T-Rex, Elton John, Bowie, Jazz-funk
, Jazz, all the greats from Miles Davis, Coltrane, to more contemporary artists like Chris Potter and Snarky Puppy, Robert Glasper along with many R&B artists like Jill Scott, Mary J, Erykah Badu, etc but my favorite genre has to be Jazz because of its ability to fuse all the aforementioned styles. However, 2 bands/singers Yebba and Hiatus Kaiyote have opened up a whole new genre that has given me joy listening to them and renewed my thirst for original, new, exciting music. -
Yebba’s voice makes me spontaneously cry in gratitude that I ever had the opportunity to bare witness to the infinite power of her voice to express dimensions of emotion and existence I haven’t experienced this entire lifetime. What a fucking tremendous blessing to receive. And to think how the pain of her mother’s passing was transmuted into such powerful healing and beautiful word sounds being spread far and wide for us all. I fuck with Yebba forever.
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there isn’t a single song from Yebba that i will not play on constant repeat
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Yebba, how do you get through this song without crying? You really are a Warrior and We truly thank you f or the shedding it takes to sing, from a place of Transparency. Much Love & May God continue to Bless you & pour Abundant Favor unto your Life ❤️❤️❤️
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The way she sings "butterknife" just blows me away every time I hear it
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this is pure medicine
