A Song for Africa Documentary“It isn’t that hard to make a difference…all it takes is a little persistenceâ€.A professional video team lead by Generator Films, Savant Productions and Derek Horn have produced a television documentary about The Song for Africa project and its recent journey that has started to raise awareness among Canada’s youth about the AIDS pandemic and other developmental issues in Africa. Musicians such as Ian D’sa from Billy Talent and Damnhait Doyle who were involved in the project traveled to Kenya to capture the everyday stories that often do not get told. The artists assisted in various Free the Children and CAFAA projects in the Masai Mara region of Kenya in addition to taking part in some of CARE Canada’s recent initiatives in Kibera. The documentary will serve as a vehicle to present the AIDS crisis and Kenya itself in a different light to Canada’s young people.
Over the past several years, it has come to the attention of certain key industry players involved in the Canadian Music Industry, that the aids pandemic in Africa has become a worldwide call for concern. It is now a statistical fact that over 21.8 million deaths have occurred since the beginning of the aids pandemic. It has also become harsh reality and statistic to report that over 4.3 million children have been killed by the aids pandemic since its beginning. Furthermore, there are over 18 million orphan children living in the world who have lost their parents due to the aids crisis. It has also been suggested that over 6300 people are dying daily from this disease. These are just a few statistics that have been published in recent months suggesting that there is a real cause for worldwide concern.With the above facts in mind, representatives based in the Canadian music industry including top recording artists, writers, producers and media have felt the need to utilize their powerful influence in the Canadian popular culture and mass media to raise awareness and call Canadian citizens to action all over the country, those who are not aware of the aids pandemic occurring throughout the world, with a specific focus on Africa.
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Song For Africa Lyrics
spoken: " No war on the face of the earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic" (Colin Powell)
v1
Driving down the road
Billboards at the side
Sell you everything you want
To fill your easy life
And for now we'll be alright
For now we'll be ok
Cause we can watch the sunset on another perfect day
prech:
They say it's just the way it is
Nothing's ever gonna change
There's nothing we can do about it
ch:
I don't want to live my life in ignorance
People think it's safe to plead indifference
Why, do people have to die?
It isn't that hard to make a difference
All it takes is a little persistence
I, think we should try
v2
Thousands of people die
With millions unaware
We think it's cool to be cavalier
We ignore cause it's over there (for now)
We will be alright (for now)
And we will be ok (for now)
Cause we can watch the sunrise on another perfect day
prech 2
ch 2
Bridge:
Stop your crying
Their pain is
Our pain
Please start trying
Are we listening?
In the end we are all the same
Daughters and sons are
Suffering
Rap:
Now their pain is our pain
Their loss is our loss
Sometimes we forget
Cause it ain't happening on our blocks
But people dying out there
Got babies born with a cross to bear
Now sometimes we sit here say our days our boring
Over there some don't see next morning
And when they're a coughin'
That means a coffin
My heart is hurting we must do something
God bless the world
Man, woman and child
If you ain't done good in awhile...
ch 3 and 4
spoken:
"Where you live, should no longer determine whether you live." (Bono)
Written by: Darcy Ataman, Rob Wells, Simon Wilcox, Luke McMaster
Rap written by: Choclair
