Heartbreaking Song - PEARLS

I actually heard this song on Angelique Kidjo's album, Djin Djin, where she recorded it with Josh Groban - spectacularly beautiful & moving. (Turns out it was first recorded by Sade, on her album Love Deluxe.) It made me cry for these African women, their children, and my daughter-to-be. Check it out.

Pearls

There is a woman in Somalia

Scraping for pearls on the roadside

There's a force stronger than nature

Keeps her will alive

This is how she's dying

She's dying to survive

Don't know what she's made of

I would like to be that brave.

She cries to the heaven above

There is a stone in my heart

She lives a life she didn't choose

And it hurts like brand-new shoes

Hurts like brand-new shoes.

There is a woman in Somalia

The sun gives her no mercy

The same sky we lay under

Burns her to the bone

Long as afternoon shadows

It's gonna take her to get home

Each grain carefully wrapped up

Pearls for her little girl.

Hallelujah Hallelujah

She cries to the heaven above

There is a stone in my heart

She lives in a world she didn't choose

And it hurts like brand-new shoes