"Dear Mr. President"(feat. Indigo Girls)
Dear Mr. President,
Come take a walk with me.
Let's pretend we're just two people and
You're not better than me.
I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly.
What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street?
Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep?
What do you feel when you look in the mirror?
Are you proud?
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Can you even look me in the eye
And tell me why?
Dear Mr. President,
Were you a lonely boy?
Are you a lonely boy?
Are you a lonely boy?
How can you say
No child is left behind?
We're not dumb and we're not blind.
They're all sitting in your cells
While you pave the road to hell.
What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away?
And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay?
I can only imagine what the first lady has to say
You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine.
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Can you even look me in the eye?
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
You don't know nothing 'bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
Oh
How do you sleep at night?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Dear Mr. President,
You'd never take a walk with me.
Would you?
I chose this song for a song that relates to social awareness because I think that it truly socially touches a lot of different topics. In this song, Pink is talking to supposedly a "higher" figure than her, but he's not being the bigger person. In the first verse, the lyrics talk about how they see homeless people, how people pray, or what they pray for, and how this person that she's talking to see's them sef as a human being, and what their interpretation of their personality is. In the chorus, the lyrics are angrier, and it's basically talking about how this person just sits around and goes about their grand life, while people are suffering and dying, and why they would hold their heads high even when they are doing something so horrible.
I can really empathize with Pink, or whoever felt this way towards this person. I agree, that this all symbolizes the problems in the world: war, death, poverty, homelessness, prejudice and persecution. And that whoever is being talked to, that they symbolize many people in the world, people that are ignorant, and don't even care about these poor people, these people that are suffering, while you're just going on with your life, and making believe that you're still doing the right thing. But that's completely wrong. People should think they're doing the right thing by actually doing the right thing- helping those in need, and not making your life better when its already good, when you can make someone who has a worse life can get a smidgen better, just because you can.
This song makes me really think about not just other peoples lives, but also my life. I often take things for granted, like buying new clothes sometimes, or going on a vacation with my family. But I've realized now that I really shouldn't take these things just for granted, because some people are a lot less fortunate than I am, and they have maybe one shirt, let alone can't go shopping frequently. I've realized that I should be doing more in the world to help those in need and make their lives better, because I'm sure any one of us would appreciate it as much as someone else would.
Dear Mr. President,
Come take a walk with me.
Let's pretend we're just two people and
You're not better than me.
I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly.
What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street?
Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep?
What do you feel when you look in the mirror?
Are you proud?
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Can you even look me in the eye
And tell me why?
Dear Mr. President,
Were you a lonely boy?
Are you a lonely boy?
Are you a lonely boy?
How can you say
No child is left behind?
We're not dumb and we're not blind.
They're all sitting in your cells
While you pave the road to hell.
What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away?
And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay?
I can only imagine what the first lady has to say
You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine.
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Can you even look me in the eye?
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
You don't know nothing 'bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
Oh
How do you sleep at night?
How do you walk with your head held high?
Dear Mr. President,
You'd never take a walk with me.
Would you?
I chose this song for a song that relates to social awareness because I think that it truly socially touches a lot of different topics. In this song, Pink is talking to supposedly a "higher" figure than her, but he's not being the bigger person. In the first verse, the lyrics talk about how they see homeless people, how people pray, or what they pray for, and how this person that she's talking to see's them sef as a human being, and what their interpretation of their personality is. In the chorus, the lyrics are angrier, and it's basically talking about how this person just sits around and goes about their grand life, while people are suffering and dying, and why they would hold their heads high even when they are doing something so horrible.
I can really empathize with Pink, or whoever felt this way towards this person. I agree, that this all symbolizes the problems in the world: war, death, poverty, homelessness, prejudice and persecution. And that whoever is being talked to, that they symbolize many people in the world, people that are ignorant, and don't even care about these poor people, these people that are suffering, while you're just going on with your life, and making believe that you're still doing the right thing. But that's completely wrong. People should think they're doing the right thing by actually doing the right thing- helping those in need, and not making your life better when its already good, when you can make someone who has a worse life can get a smidgen better, just because you can.
This song makes me really think about not just other peoples lives, but also my life. I often take things for granted, like buying new clothes sometimes, or going on a vacation with my family. But I've realized now that I really shouldn't take these things just for granted, because some people are a lot less fortunate than I am, and they have maybe one shirt, let alone can't go shopping frequently. I've realized that I should be doing more in the world to help those in need and make their lives better, because I'm sure any one of us would appreciate it as much as someone else would.
Nice copying my song -_-
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