Someday, yeah

Sometimes, when pain and suffering are all around you, there's just nothing adequate to say.
More layoffs today. I'm supposed to be an optimist. But today I don't feel like trying.
It's times like this that I'm grateful for music--specifically my favorite comfort song of all time, "Ooh, child." I've put together a little sampler from the YouTube. Let's hope that someday we really will walk together in the rays of a beautiful sun.

First, the Five Stairsteps. Whatever happened to them?




Nina Simone




Hall & Oates. Wait...Hall & Oates did a version?





And finally, Cundi Lauper and Destiny's Child



It helps. But only a little.