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Haïti, mon pays
Wounded mother I'll never see
Ma famille set me free
Throw my ashes into the sea
Mes cousins jamais nés
Hantent les nuits de Duvalier
Rien n'arrête nos esprits
Guns can't kill what soldiers can't see
In the forest we are hiding
Unmarked graves where flowers grow
Hear the soldiers angry yelling
In the river we will go
Tous les morts-nés forment une armée
Soon we will reclaim the earth
All the tears and all the bodies
Bring about our second birth
Haiti, never free
N'aie pas peur de sonner l'alarme
Tes enfants sont partis
In those days their blood was still warm
Wounded mother I'll never see
Ma famille set me free
Throw my ashes into the sea
Mes cousins jamais nés
Hantent les nuits de Duvalier
Rien n'arrête nos esprits
Guns can't kill what soldiers can't see
In the forest we are hiding
Unmarked graves where flowers grow
Hear the soldiers angry yelling
In the river we will go
Tous les morts-nés forment une armée
Soon we will reclaim the earth
All the tears and all the bodies
Bring about our second birth
Haiti, never free
N'aie pas peur de sonner l'alarme
Tes enfants sont partis
In those days their blood was still warm
Lyrics submitted by drinkmilk, edited by alex284, Leffe, twoplanets
Haïti Lyrics as written by Win Butler William Butler
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I_LOVE_CAMP: sorry about all the hate you've been getting, but I feel the need to put in my two cents... I've been on missions trips to "less fortunate countries" as well (Mexico, Costa Rica) and okay, it's a wonderful experience and probably incomparable to anything else. however, living in the community I do with the social conscience it has, I don't think I would ever go again - not because it's a bad thing, but because there are so many better things you can do that will help more. the cost of the plane ticket to Haiti, accommodations, food... it's a waste when you consider that you could instead send to the money with a reliable organization - and I mean really reliable, like you've researched exactly where the money goes - and use it to hire the citizens of that country (who are desperately looking for ways to support their families) to help rebuild their cities after the earthquake and also to help out in rural areas. in that way, the country of Haiti may be simultaneously rebuilt and strengthened, and helped to make it out of the hole in which they've been for far too long. it's not fair to storm them with foreign aid that only brings in foreign workers and foreign influences, when we could be paying the people of the country to do what needs to be done; it's a win-win. we should be helping them to get back on their feet in a way that's going to be constructive in the future, not just today.
phew long post. sorry. I just felt that your sentiment was well-meant, but not well-placed.
I am a lower middle class graduate student living a married life, working an ass-kicking, spirit-lifting job (high school science teacher). I am also a native puertorrican. I get her, even though we here in the island have not experienced close to genocidical conditions in the pass 450 years, even though we have not experienced close to cataclismical events in the past month. I am a hispanicamerican living in the caribbean, and i am glad thad a song like this exists. It reminds me that there is an intense afrocaribbean spirit close to my home. This is a great band, refreshingly poetic. My favorite song in the album is Haiti, and right next to it Wake Up (It reminds me that life is a dialectical roller coaster, full of sweetness, sadness, despair, growth, strife, and bits and pieces of what is quite frecuently called happiness).