Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)

[pegkerr]

I'd posted links to the previous videos that Matt did. This new one makes me smile even more; it just makes me hopeful and happy about the human race, and this beautiful world in which we live. The clip from Gurgaon, India, in particular, just slays me every time:

There was an article about this video in the Star Tribune recently, because the vocalist on this video (a Bengali immigrant by the name of Palbasha Siddique) goes to Fiona's high school!

Here is Nobel Prize-winning Rabindranath Tagore's English version of the lyrics to this song, titled "Praan" (you can buy it both at iTunes and at Amazon):

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures.

It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birth and of death, in ebb and in flow.

I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.

Lyrics adapted from the poem "Stream of Life" Gitanjali by Rabindranath Tagore. He also has written the national anthem of India.

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Comments

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

I love this video, and I love the song. I bought it from iTunes, and was immensely annoyed to find that the artist was listed as Gary Schyman, the composer. Even if he was one of the musicians or whatever, I think it's a crime to not list her name as the song's artist.

I changed the artist name in my iTunes to hers and moved whatshisname to the composer slot. Where he belongs.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I just went and bought it from iTunes, too (and put Palbasha Siddique's name in where it belongs.)

[inimue.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's so cool!

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

Hey, that means the singer is in R's class! I'll have to ask her if she knows the girl.