lifeblood: songs: backgrounds: from haiti

amy ray quote from 2012-01-17: indigo girl focuses on 'power of ... mystery' in solo career, red and black

"[that song is] a lot about countries where we've tapped for resources and we've used in one way or another," she said. "the positive thing is that we've tried to help or influence in some way, but there's always a kind of hidden negative agenda too. i was thinking about that disaster and just how strong the people were there and that we had a lot to learn from them and from other people in other areas that go through such big monumental disasters and are able to pull themselves up."