Haiti Earthquake - 12/01/10 (16:57pm)

Source: Flame 21, originally uploaded by DeusXFlorida.

I'm not usually one to jump on my blog and write about this stuff, but I have been reading a bit about Haiti on the net over the last few days and I felt compelled to mark it somehow...however inadequately...

So from here, I'll hand it over to Chad Kroger (Nickelback) who always has a way a striking the exact right emotion at the exact right time. This was one of a couple songs from their concert where I had to fight back the tears. Nickelback playing their arses off with images of "Doctors Without Borders" and "Amnesty International" behind them.

I am not by any definition an activist, I am much more a passivist, but music from the likes of Nickelback, U2 and more than ever, Green Day, makes me think, makes me question...

If Everyone Cared - Nickelback
From underneath the trees, we watch the sky
Confusing stars for satellites
I never dreamed that you'd be mine
But here we are, we're here tonight

Singing Amen, I'm alive
Singing Amen, I'm alive

If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
We'd see the day when nobody died
And I'm singing

Amen I, I'm alive
Amen I, I'm alive

And in the air the fireflies
Our only light in paradise
We'll show the world they were wrong
And teach them all to sing along

Singing Amen I'm alive
Singing Amen I'm alive

If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
We'd see the day when nobody died
If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
We'd see the day when nobody died

And as we lie beneath the stars
We realize how small we are
If they could love like you and me
Imagine what the world could be

If everyone cared and nobody cried
If everyone loved and nobody lied
If everyone shared and swallowed their pride
We'd see the day when nobody died

We'd see the day, we'd see the day
When nobody died
We'd see the day, we'd see the day
When nobody died
We'd see the day when nobody died