Sting dedicated this touching song called "Fragile" to the helpless 3 million Internally Displaced People (IDP) from Swat, Pakistan. He did this in collaboration with his friend Salman Ahmad from Junoon.
Background: Swati IDPs are a result of a military campaign that Pakistani military launched against Talibans in April '09 at US's behest. The basic sustenance for these people was farming, which was essentially completely destroyed by the time the fighting ended in July 2009.
One example of problems facing the IDPs: http://www.chowrangi.com/swat-idp-camp-uprooted-in-islamabad.html
A heartening story of a little girl and his family as IDPs: http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/10/10/world/1247465107008/a-schoolgirls-odyssey.html
A heartening story of a little girl and his family as IDPs: http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/10/10/world/1247465107008/a-schoolgirls-odyssey.html
Links mentioned by Sting:
Lyrics to the song "Fragile":
If blood will flow when flesh and steel are one
Drying in the colour of the evening sun
Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away
But something in our minds will always stay
Perhaps this final act was meant
To clinch a lifetime's argument
That nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are
On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are how fragile we are
On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are how fragile we are
How fragile we are how fragile we are
Drying in the colour of the evening sun
Tomorrow's rain will wash the stains away
But something in our minds will always stay
Perhaps this final act was meant
To clinch a lifetime's argument
That nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could
For all those born beneath an angry star
Lest we forget how fragile we are
On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are how fragile we are
On and on the rain will fall
Like tears from a star like tears from a star
On and on the rain will say
How fragile we are how fragile we are
How fragile we are how fragile we are
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Props to Salman and Sting!
ReplyDeletecant access the video = (
ReplyDeletebut the lyrics are lovely...
''lest we forget how fragile we are...''
beautiful!
I'm glad you guys enjoyed it.
ReplyDeleteHayaah, how come? It's just a youtube video.
A discouraging development in this story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091005/ap_on_re_as/as_pakistan
ReplyDeleteA heartening story of a little girl and her family from swat: http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/10/10/world/1247465107008/a-schoolgirls-odyssey.html
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