[Christie] (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} xsullen_girlx) wrote,@ 2006-11-28 01:42:00 |
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| Current music: | Hanson: Great Divide |
Great Divide
Note: (Even if you do not like Hanson, please take a moment to read this. Not for me or for the band Hanson, but for all of the children in Africa dying from the AIDS virus as we speak.)
"Months after "Great Divide" was written we found ourselves sitting in the conference room of a small technology company in Tulsa, Oklahoma with a few friends. They were going to South Africa to give away their software to the largest hospital in the southern hemisphere – Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa. The primary use for the technology was to enable better treatment and research for AIDS and HIV. We didn't know what role we could play, but there was something fortuitous about the whole experience. We would go to Africa, and we would bring our music with us.
The things we saw in Africa were both joyful and sobering. The trip was about learning. We saw as much as we could in a short time trying not to blink, so that the pictures would be ingrained in our minds. But the biggest impact come from what Africa did to our music.
We were able to record two children's choirs while we were there; one in South Africa, the other in Mozambique. Watching them sing reminded us why we make music in the first place. They sing with such joy it made us stop and wonder how children with so little could possibly sing about hope. It was chilling. It was changing.
Through the song "Great Divide" we hope that some of the conviction we have will translate to whoever hears it. All the proceeds we receive from the iTunes downloads will go to the Perinatal HIV Research Unit of the hospital; people who are creating REAL HOPE. We know that a song and a T-Shirt will only do so much, but we are doing what we can with what we have.
Awareness must become a resolve to make a difference.
-Isaac, Taylor, and Zac Hanson
Click the link below to watch the music video Hanson made while in Africa, to download the song, or to listen to it for free.
http://www.flashenhanced.com/hansonecar
The Great Divide
(I.Hanson, T. Hanson, Z. Hanson)
The earth is shaking under siege
And every breath will meet its fate
Still we hunger for a moment of freedom
Even though the hour is late
I find hope and it gives me rest
I find hope in a beating chest
I find hope in what eyes don't see
I find hope in your hate for me
Have no fear when the waters rise
We can conquer this great divide
This great divide
When every eye is one the fortune
It can only breed contempt
They say blood is thicker than oceans
Still we box our brothers in
I find hope and it gives me rest
I find hope in a beating chest
I find hope in what eyes don't see
I find hope in your hate for me
Have no fear when the waters rise
We can conquer this great divide
And we're gone, and we're gone
And we're gone, and we're gone
And we're, holding on
And we're, holding on
I find hope and it gives me rest
I find hope in a beating chest
I find hope in what eyes don't see
I find hope in your hate for me
Have no fear when the waters rise
We can conquer this great divide
This great divide
