Lyrics
EmmaOMG – Ko’rin Iyin Lyrics
Emi a yin Oluwa o
Tor’ola mbere orin mi o
Mo korin si O
Oh my God
Okan mi k’orin iyin
K’o k’orin ope
Jo s’otun s’osi
S’Oluwa o
Tor’ola Re mbere orin mi
Ni gidigan se
So ti m’ba se bayi
Aramoda
S’Atobiju
Iwo Okan mi k’orin o
Okan mi k’orin iyin
K’o k’orin ope
Jo s’otun s’osi
S’Oluwa o
Tor’ola Re mbere orin mi
Ni gidigan se
So ti m’ba se bayi
Aramoda
S’Atobiju
Yin Oluwa o
Okan mi o
Ara mi o
Gbogbo aye mi ṣa ma
K’orin iyin
S’Olugbala re
S’Oluwa o
Eni t’o fe ọ
T’o gba ọ la
T’o ra ọ pada kuro lowo iku
Iwo okan mi ṣa ma
Jo s’ọtun s’osi
Ma a rababa eh
S’Atobiju
Oya f’emi imore han e
Okan mi k’orin iyin
K’o k’orin ope
Jo s’otun s’osi
S’Oluwa o
Oun l’ọpẹ ati iyin ye
Tor’ola Re mbere orin mi
Ni gidigan se
So ti m’ba se bayi
Aramoda
S’Atobiju
Oya iwo okan mi o
Yin Oluwa o
Eni t’o fi ohun daradara
Tẹ ẹ l’ọrun o
K’orin iyin
S’Oluwa o
S’Oluwa to n da e lare
T’o n se idajo fun gbogbo awon
T’o fẹ ni ẹ lara
Jo s’ọtun s’osi
S’Atobiju
Okan mi k’orin iyin
K’o k’orin ope
Jo s’otun s’osi
S’Oluwa o
Tor’ola Re mbere orin mi
Ni gidigan se
So ti m’ba se bayi
Aramoda
S’Atobiju
Yin Oluwa yin Oluwa
Okan mi k’orin iyin
K’o k’orin ope
Jo s’otun s’osi
S’Oluwa o
Tor’ola Re mbere orin mi
Ni gidigan se
So ti m’ba se bayi
Aramoda
S’Atobiju
Oya o
E yin Oluwa gbogb’eyin omo Rẹ o
Eyin ti ẹ nse ti ifẹ Rẹ
Yin Oluwa gbogbo ise ọwọ Rẹ o
Nibi gbogbo ninu ijoba Rẹ o
Oya ẹ yin Oluwa o
Ẹ yin Oluwa gbogb’eyin omo Rẹ o
Ẹyin iranse Rẹ ti e nse ti ifẹ Rẹ
Eyin ti ẹ nse ti ifẹ Rẹ
E yin Oluwa
Yin Oluwa gbogbo ise ọwọ Rẹ o
Nibi gbogbo ninu ijoba Rẹ o
Yin Oluwa iwo ọkan mi o
Okan mi k’orin iyin
(Ọjọ aye ọmọ eniyan dabi ti koriko)
K’o k’orin ope
Jo s’otun s’osi (Eniyan a si ma gbile)
S’Oluwa o
Tor’ola Re mbere orin mi (Sugbon bi afefe ba ti fẹ kọja lori re)
Ni gidigan se (A re danu)
So ti m’ba se bayi
Aramoda
S’Atobiju
Sugbọn titi aye ni ifẹ Oluwa ti kii yẹ
Okan mi k’orin iyin
K’o k’orin ope (si awa ti o beru Rẹ)
Jo s’otun s’osi
S’Oluwa
Yin Oluwa Oluwa wa (Tor’ola Re mbere orin mi)
Ododo Rẹ kii yẹ (ni gidigan se)
L’o fi jẹ pe
So ti m’ba se bayi
Aramoda
S’Atobiju
Ko ko ko ko korin si Ọ
Ko ko ko ko korin si Ọ
Ko ko ko ko korin si Ọ
Ko ko ko ko korin si Ọ
Oh my God
Song Meaning & Explanation
Ko'rin Iyin doesn't announce itself with subtlety — it announces itself with a command. "Emi a yin Oluwa," EmmaOMG opens: I will praise the Lord. Before we've even settled in, the song has told us exactly what it intends to do for the next several minutes, and then it does that one thing with a single-mindedness that becomes the whole point.
This is a worship song built less on narrative than on instruction — the singer keeps turning inward, addressing "okan mi" (my heart, my soul) directly, coaxing it into motion: "k'orin iyin," "k'o k'orin ope" — sing praise, sing thanks. That repeated imperative does real work. It's not just filler; it dramatizes the act of talking yourself into gratitude, which anyone who's had to summon praise on a hard day will recognize. The physical instruction to "jo s'otun s'osi" — dance right, dance left — grounds the abstract command in the body, which is a nice touch; this isn't praise as concept, it's praise as movement.
The song's strongest moment arrives late, almost as an aside in parentheses: a paraphrase of the psalmist's image of human life as grass, scattered the instant wind passes over it, set against the claim that God's love never fades the same way. It's the one place the lyric reaches for something bigger than its own chorus, and it lands — mortality against permanence, framed simply but effectively. The closing chant, "ko ko ko ko korin si Ọ," stutters like a heartbeat finding its rhythm before breaking into full song, a clever structural choice that mirrors the whole song's arc from hesitation to full-throated praise.
Where it falters is in its economy: the chorus recurs so often that the writing leans on repetition rather than earning fresh images each time, and outside that one psalm-echo, the vocabulary of praise stays fairly conventional. Still, as a piece of devotional songwriting, it knows its job and does it with conviction. 7/10
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