Unity

This video shows not only the rich ethnical and cultural diversity of my beautiful metropolitian country of Trinidad and Tobago, but it shows the richness of our music and how we as a people live in unity and harmony with one another, despite "creed and race".

METRIC

I know my posts these day's have become shorter and shorter, but that is due to me wanting to keep up with posts while juggling time spent with class assignments, facebook, and most important sleep. I just wanted to share one of the most amazing bands I have ever encountered

METRIC - Help I'm Alive

So it's been awhile since I posted anything, but I think this song epitomizes my life this past month

La Chanson Du Jour/ The Song Of The Day: Arcade Fire - Haiti

This is probably the most heartfelt song I have seen written in recent times, an elegy sung by Régine Chassagne(one of the founding members of the group Arcade Fire) of her once beautiful homeland,from which she was driven out during the reign of Haiti's exiled leader Jean-Claude Duvalier.

I like the live version of this song best because its seems to portray the raw emotion, the sadness, anger, frustration in which this song was penned.

LYRICS:

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'arrete nos esprits.
Guns can't kill what soldiers can't see.

In the forest we lie 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.

Haïti, never free,
n'aie pas peur de sonner l'alarme.
Tes enfants sont partis,
In those days their blood was still warm


Original album version

The Machine breathes on

Yup I'm talking about the one and only Florence + the Machine.... A British singer which I fell in love with way back 2008, long before she had the stardom she is privy to nowadays, who's style of music was as enchanting as it was heartfelt, who's lyrics were sweet but yet still deep. This new found love caused me to buy their debut CD Lungs right in their hometown London,England....an experience I will always cherish.

This is the first song I ever heard by Miss Florence Welch: