Everybody Hurts

I remember when this song came out. It was ground breaking in a way that nobody had quite been able to show visually that each and every person has pain. It’s cinematic-ally very simple. Cars and people, thoughts on a page. One lone man steps up and declares his pain, and then everyone stands up with him. Deceitfully simple, but such a foreign concept to so many.

It has been used a number of times to show solidarity for causes, or people in pain in movies and TV shows. Now it’s been used for the Help For Haiti campaign with great effect.

Watch the Videos, all three of them if you have the time. They all are inspiring and hopeful in their own way. Or, just read the lyrics if you scroll down just a bit, they may help you through your next bad day.

Video for REM’s Everybody Hurts -

Video for Help For Haiti’s Everybody Hurts – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts1HxVopG2k – Very Graphic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zugOJU8bds – Not as graphic but JUST as powerful…

Just as an aside, please don’t forget that people in Haiti still need our help and donations to the Red Cross for food and services. Help is also needed with the Gulf Oil spill.

Close to home, SO much help is needed with the Oil Spill on the Kalamazoo River. More than 800 gallons of crude oil has pumped into the river.

Support your local Red Cross by donating or volunteering.

http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.1a019a978f421296e81ec89e43181aa0/?vgnextoid=c788a0c29f32a210VgnVCM10000089f0870aRCRD

When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone,
When you’re sure you’ve had enough of this life, well hang on
Don’t let yourself go, ’cause everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes

Sometimes everything is wrong. Now it’s time to sing along
When your day is night alone, (hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go, (hold on)
When you think you’ve had too much of this life, well hang on

‘Cause everybody hurts. Take comfort in your friends
Everybody hurts. Don’t throw your hand. Oh, no. Don’t throw your hand
If you feel like you’re alone, no, no, no, you are not alone

If you’re on your own in this life, the days and nights are long,
When you think you’ve had too much of this life to hang on

Well, everybody hurts sometimes,
Everybody cries. And everybody hurts sometimes
And everybody hurts sometimes. So, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Everybody hurts. You are not alone

Song compliments of REM

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