Hope for Haiti Now telethon

when the sky falls and the Earth quakes, we gon put this back together, we won’t break.
sa pa sé, my Port-Au-Princes, my Haitian Gods and all of my Princesses.
our condolences as you're fighting against this, we’re right by your side as we're trying to make sense of this.
so here’s my theory, the country’s already starving..so we sacrificed many to shed light on all of them. so lets get involved with them, hand to hand with them, arm to arm with them til they get strong again..can’t wait until tomorrow.
learn from the past, New Orleans was flooded, so we know we just can’t rely on the government.
the tears fall, and we fight back. tomorrow’s survivors gon carry on your name.
you live on inside us, your memory’s alive with us, you inspired us, to rebuild this country, you just guide us.
the people waiting, position vacant for hands to help, not just to pray.
..thanks jay-z


i really like dave matthews, i came across him after receiving a 4-set of cds from a live concert of his in NY from my brother one birthday a couple of years ago. at one point before a song he said to the crowd, 'if you love New York city, please, leave only your footprints.' ..good. so good.
the songs that he performs with his band are generally v different to the sound that he's produced here with Neil Young and are a whole lot longer with average 9-minute sets for each song when performing live and with a much larger and sort of more wholesome percussive and instrumental sound.
but i did nearly choke when i heard ~2:41 and some of the haunting melodies that they've seemed to wail out here, especially toward the end of the song. i can't go past a vocalist that sounds truly genuine about the words that theyre singing.


the altering of some of the lyrics to fit into the context is really lovely, as is Chris Martin from Coldplay being thrown into the mix to play the piano part.
i like how stripped back this song is, as well as when her voice is especially low and growly at the beginning.
somehow the repetition in this song never bothers me, especially not when presented as it has been here.

the performances by John Legend and Stevie Wonder deserve a mention as well. but then again, such men can hardly step a foot in the wrong direction.
there's so much raw talent that can be so easily overlooked or misjudged amongst the musicians that performed not-for-profit in the telethon in addition to those in Haiti performing journalistic duties so that the news and latest relief efforts are able to be heard across the globe, as well as the obvious incredible effort that is being poured into the most damaged areas via aid workers, the transport workers that are getting said relief to the places that it is most needy, the medical workers and others that are on-scene and on-tap just to help the weakened the survivors themselves.
its humbling to hear and to see.

its truly sad that a natural disastrous event like this needs to occur to publicise and promote such selfless efforts by individual people, but a message that was pointed out in the song that Jay-Z performed (alongside Rihanna and Bono) deserves to be highlighted: so many died and lost countless of their loved ones amongst the rubble in the Haiti earthquakes that the only reason that he can see for such a disaster was that the world is now collectively aware of Haiti's plight. even before the small nation was hit, poverty levels were so overbearing amongst the population. at least, now, aid is being poured into the nation and its people to help rebuild it as a stronger, more knowledgable and healthier nation than that that existed beforehand.
youve got to look for the reflection of the sun in the murkiest puddles sometimes, i think.