Ian D’sa & Rwanda: Rises Up!
June 21, 2010
Everyone knows Ian D’sa as the oft big haired guitarist for the now Canadian vets Billy Talent – but what fans don’t know is what Ian and the rest of his BT boys have done to help great causes. While Aaron Solowoniuk raises funds & awareness for the MS Society, Ian has been a staunch supported of SFA from the get go. Participating in the first SFA doc back in 2007, Ian has continued to show his support of Song for Africa’s second project: Rwanda: Rises Up! Although he didn’t join Tim Edwards, Sarah Slean, Damhnait Doyle, & Steve Bays on this most recent trip to Rwanda, Ian has provided one of the stand out tracks on the sister album (released to iTunes June 22nd on Sony Music!!) entitled “Land of a Thousand Hills. The song is fantastic and Ian once again shows why he belongs to one of the great Canadian bands around these days. Check out the lyrics below and please support SFA and our programs by purchasing the iTunes album!
Land of a Thousand Hills
by Ian D’Sa
For love and for country, it’s never the same
To men of high power, the two don’t equate
When leaders of nations, and brokers of hate
Continue to play the most deadly of games
They shuffle their demons, and deal out their sins
Hand out their weapons, like candy to kids
Pull on their people, like puppets on strings
To play out their war, in the court of the king
And the fires keep burning in the middle of the night
The rivers keep flowing like the tears from your eyes
You can still hear the voices of all those who died
In the land of a thousand hills
We drank through the summer, and soaked in the sun
While over the ocean, the killing begun
They followed their leaders, and fired their guns
We had no idea, of what was to come
And the fires keep burning in the middle of the night
The rivers keep flowing like the tears from your eyes
You can still hear the voices of all those who died
They echo, they echo, like shots from a gun
They echo, they echo, like the rhythm of your drum
For one hundred days, you could never see the sun
In the land of a thousand hills
(Guitar solo)
And years will have passed, ‘til the world would find out
The truth of unthinkable violence, so loud
It shattered the heavens, and silenced the crowd
The highest almighty, cannot save us now
Oh my brother, oh my brother, tell me what have you done?!
We’ll hide in the church, ‘til the bulldozers come
There are men with machetes, and children with guns
We’ll never forgive you, for what you have done
And the fires keep burning in the middle of the night
The rivers keep flowing like the tears from your eyes
You can still hear the voices of all those who died
They echo, they echo, like shots from a gun
They echo, they echo, like the rhythm of your drum
The rest of the world will expose all their lies
And all those you silenced will once again rise
For one hundred days, you could never see the sky
In the land of a thousand hills
For one hundred days, you could never see the sky
In the land of a thousand hills
