Sting performed a powerful rendition of his appropriately chosen Police song “Driven To Tears” during the Hope For Haiti Now telethon on January 22, 2010 along with Mark Whitfield on guitar, Chris Botti on trumpet, Clark Gayton on trombone, Ira Coleman on bass, and members of the band The Roots. You can always count on Sting to lend a helping vocal during a crisis, and the lyrics to “Driven To Tears” were poignantly relevant to the desperate situation at hand:
Hide my face in my hands, shame wells in my throat
My comfortable existance is reduced to a shallow meaningless party
Seems that when some innocent die
All we can offer them is a page in some magazine
Too many cameras and not enough food
Cause this is what we’ve seen“Driven To Tears” Sting
Thanks for the info. For me, the best version of Driven after the Blue Turtles Era.
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Mark Whitfield is perfect for this song. (probably is perfect for every song
Agreed, Mark Whitfield’s performance here is simply electrifying! Hearing this fantastic version of Driven To Tears was a nice surprise since I was expecting something more commercially successful (meaning overplayed) like Message In A Bottle or Fragile.