This is one of the most moving songs i have ever heard. It is so beautifully crafted and the lyrics and harmony are astounding. The comparison to heartache in poverty to painful soles is poignant in that the woman in somalia probably never had new shoes and that despite that we can understand her pain. And the aspect of how she surrenders her life to the heavens above all her thoughts for her little girl. It is a song about the harshness of life and how we cannot choose our fate and family but have to each of us scrape for pearls in our lifetime to furhter our lives or in this case furhter our children's lives. She collects them for her girl notice not for her so you can interpret pearls as pearls of wisdom, money, food something that will help her child survive depite she is dying to survive....
@Tethys Yes, and about having to live a life you don\'t get to choose, the painful soles might also be a way of Sade saying that that\'s all some people will never know, they might never know the pain of not being able to find your next meal for you and your child.
@Tethys Yes, and about having to live a life you don\'t get to choose, the painful soles might also be a way of Sade saying that that\'s all some people will never know, they might never know the pain of not being able to find your next meal for you and your child.
This is one of the most moving songs i have ever heard. It is so beautifully crafted and the lyrics and harmony are astounding. The comparison to heartache in poverty to painful soles is poignant in that the woman in somalia probably never had new shoes and that despite that we can understand her pain. And the aspect of how she surrenders her life to the heavens above all her thoughts for her little girl. It is a song about the harshness of life and how we cannot choose our fate and family but have to each of us scrape for pearls in our lifetime to furhter our lives or in this case furhter our children's lives. She collects them for her girl notice not for her so you can interpret pearls as pearls of wisdom, money, food something that will help her child survive depite she is dying to survive....
@Tethys Yes, and about having to live a life you don\'t get to choose, the painful soles might also be a way of Sade saying that that\'s all some people will never know, they might never know the pain of not being able to find your next meal for you and your child.
@Tethys Yes, and about having to live a life you don\'t get to choose, the painful soles might also be a way of Sade saying that that\'s all some people will never know, they might never know the pain of not being able to find your next meal for you and your child.