Pearls - India.Arie

[00:11.59]There is a woman in Somalia
[00:16.40]Scraping for pearls by the roadside
[00:21.47]There is a force stronger than nature
[00:26.49]Keeps her will alive
[00:31.61]That is how she lives her life
[00:36.43]She is dying to survive
[00:41.43]I don’t know what she’s made of
[00:46.61]But I would like to be that brain
[00:50.77]She cries to the heavens above
[00:55.42]There’s a stone in my heart
[00:59.99]She lives a life she didn’t choose
[01:04.39]And it hurts like brand new shoes
[01:10.33]Yes, it hurts like brand new shoes
[01:20.47]And it hurts like brand new shoes
[01:26.39]There is a woman in Rwanda
[01:36.48]The sun shows her no mercy
[01:41.74]The same sky we lay under
[01:46.80]It burns her to the bone
[01:51.65]Long is afternoon shadows
[01:56.33]It’s gonna take her to get home
[02:01.78]Each gray carefully wrapped up
[02:06.72]Pearls for her little girl
[02:10.93]Hallelujah, Hallelujah
[02:20.93]She cries to the heavens above
[02:25.36]There’s a stone in my heart
[02:30.78]She lives a life she didn’t choose
[02:34.33]And it hurts like brand new shoes
[02:41.42]Yes, it hurts like brand new shoes
[02:50.86]And it hurts like brand new shoes
[03:01.61]There was a womanin Somalia
[03:06.49]There was a woman in Rwanda
[03:11.86]There was a woman in Tibet
[03:16.49]There is a woman in a Congo
[03:19.45]And she hurts like brand new shoes
[03:31.83]Hallelujah, Hallelujah
[03:46.33]Hallelujah, Hallelujah