Song commemorating Tsunami Victims in 2006 (Dec. 26th Anniversary)
Dear ones,
I heard this song…redone by the Used or Chemical Romance (They actually sang this in Buffalo, NY to remember the tragedy of the Dec. 26th, 2004 Tsunami) This song was originally Performed by Queen and a great version is with David Bowie and Queen.
I started crying…thinking of so much lost during the Tsunami that hit shores of India, Sri Lanka, E. Africa.
I don’t know if this goes under inspirational…just brought me back to such loss and the fact that we’ll be travelling to Sri Lanka soon to see where the Tsunami hit…amazing…and I’m feeling ahead of time=the loss of life, homes, land that was experienced…I guess the lyrics here that hit me the most are: WHY WHY WHY?
Under Pressure by David Bowie/Queen
Mm ba ba de
Um bum ba de
Um bu bu bum da de
Pressure pushing down on me
Pressing down on you no man (woman, child) ask for
Under pressure – that burns a building down
Splits a family in two
Puts people on streets
Um ba ba be
Um ba ba be
De day da
Ee day da – that’s o.k.
It’s the terror of knowing
What the world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming ‘Let me out’
Pray tomorrow – gets me higher
Pressure on people – people on streets
Day day de mm hm
Da da da ba ba
O.k.
Chippin’ around – kick my brains around the floor
These are the days it never rains but it pours
Ee do ba be
Ee da ba ba ba
Um bo bo
People on streets – ee da de da de
People on streets – ee da de da de da de da
It’s the terror of knowing
What this world is about
Watching some good friends
Screaming ‘Let me out’
Pray tomorrow – gets me higher high high
Pressure on people – people on streets
Turned away from it all like a blind man (woman, child)
Sat on a fence but it don’t work
Keep coming up with love
but it’s so slashed and torn
Why – why – why ?
Love love love love love
Insanity laughs under pressure we’re cracking
Can’t we give ourselves one more chance
Why can’t we give love that one more chance
Why can’t we give love give love give love give love
give love give love give love give love give love
‘Cause love’s such an old fashioned word
And love dares you to care for
The people on the edge of the night
And loves dares you to change our way of
Caring about ourselves
This is our last dance
This is our last dance
This is ourselves
Under pressure
Under pressure
Pressure
Swept Out-
I sit with myself today, truly
and I wonder how
it will be tomorrow
better, I hope-
And I feel a burning
a blaze and I don’t know-
should I put it out
or let it burn.
Oh Lord, why does one
go through these days
to what end-
this too shall pass?
My heart is not the only
broken one,
there is a paradise
where hope floats-
Some see it that way
others- despair despair…
Father, why
suffer so?
Is it to collect our hearts
in such a way-
to lend a hand
and many prayers,
I do not understand
at all.
Is faith a grain of sand
that’s been swept out
into the sea
where dreams drown
and shoreline blurs?
(I’ve never shared this before, but after the tsunami-wept in words and it came…seems fitting for this place.) Take care-
Thank you!!! :)