Pearls
India Arie"Pearls" is a song by India Arie, released in 2009 in the Pop genre. The song is 3:46 long and contains 36 lines and 212 words.
Lyrics
0:11There is a woman in Somalia
0:16Scraping for pearls by the roadside
0:21There is a force stronger than nature
0:26Keeps her will alive
0:31That is how she lives her life
0:36She is dying to survive
0:41I don't know what she's made of
0:46But I would like to be that brain
0:50She cries to the heavens above
0:55There's a stone in my heart
0:59She lives a life she didn't choose
1:04And it hurts like brand new shoes
1:10Yes it hurts like brand new shoes
1:20And it hurts like brand new shoes
1:26There is a woman in Rwanda
1:36The sun shows her no mercy
1:41The same sky we lay under
1:46It burns her to the bone
1:51Long is afternoon shadows
1:56It's gonna take her to get home
2:01Each gray carefully wrapped up
2:06Pearls for her little girl
2:10Hallelujah Hallelujah
2:20She cries to the heavens above
2:25There's a stone in my heart
2:30She lives a life she didn't choose
2:34And it hurts like brand new shoes
2:41Yes it hurts like brand new shoes
2:50And it hurts like brand new shoes
3:01There was a womanin Somalia
3:06There was a woman in Rwanda
3:11There was a woman in xizang
3:16There is a woman in a Congo
3:19And she hurts like brand new shoes
3:31Hallelujah Hallelujah
3:46Hallelujah Hallelujah
There is a woman in Somalia Scraping for pearls by the roadside There is a force stronger than nature Keeps her will alive That is how she lives her life She is dying to survive I don't know what she's made of But I would like to be that brain She cries to the heavens above There's a stone in my heart She lives a life she didn't choose And it hurts like brand new shoes Yes it hurts like brand new shoes And it hurts like brand new shoes There is a woman in Rwanda The sun shows her no mercy The same sky we lay under It burns her to the bone Long is afternoon shadows It's gonna take her to get home Each gray carefully wrapped up Pearls for her little girl Hallelujah Hallelujah She cries to the heavens above There's a stone in my heart She lives a life she didn't choose And it hurts like brand new shoes Yes it hurts like brand new shoes And it hurts like brand new shoes There was a womanin Somalia There was a woman in Rwanda There was a woman in xizang There is a woman in a Congo And she hurts like brand new shoes Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah
Translation
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