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?
(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?
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?
(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?
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To all the people that think that Pink doesn't know anything about "hard work", do you have any idea what you're talking about? Sure, she may be a multi-millionaire, but have you seen the amount of charity work she does? The amounts of money she donates to different organizations is just amazing in my eyes.
On the topic of Pink being a hypocrite, go look up her website and read her bio. She says herself that each album that she makes is cathartic (emotionally freeing, for those that are too ignorant to know what it means), and that gives her major brownie points for me.
Supporters of Bush: I admit that even though I was only in 5th grade when 9/11 happened, I knew and understood what had happened and was in fact a supporter of fighting the terrorists. Okay, that's all done with. So why exactly are we there, 6 full years after the initial invasion? Saddam's dead, what are our reasons for staying?
And I'd just like to point out that if you've made it this far in reading my response, you'll notice that I haven't cursed a single time. It is in fact possible to get your point across without using obscene language.
MoonRider13, if you're reading this, you seem to have a good intelligent mind about the world and what's going on, and I think you should be congratulated for writing something like this, it's the product of a budding journalist, so kudos to you. ;)
And I do admit I have been guilty of the odd profanity here and there myself, though nothing too serious, but profane just the same, so I apologise; sometimes I get angry reading some of the posts on songs, if you could call those particular posts such.
not: you'LL never take a walk with me
but:
You'd never take a walk with me
i'm quite sure that this is right - and to me it sounds even better...
Let me tell you about hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you about hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you about hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box
Let me tell you about hard work
that just pisses me off cause you know what we think that everyone has had to work hard for what they got and that nobody but the president got stuff a little easyer this is just a song for all the stupid demacrats out there who hate the presidint and its not his fault that there are homeless i would rather him put armor and better weapons to protect our troops over in iraq then give the homeless $5.00 a week for food or some crap like that
and this song tells the truth about bush.
even though he's not in office anymore,
obama is NOT gonna do any better than him.
have you HEARD what he plans to do?!
HE'S GOING TO DESTROY US!
and she was on the streets. and poor before she was recognised. so she difinantly knows what she is one about when she talks about "hard work"
and even if i have never built a box as my bed. or have had to rebuild my house. or whatever, its called empathy. and its clear pink shows empathy and cares about the millions of other people despite her wealth and fame. unlike bush.
i agree with you gigglesxoxo. =)
also, america is in a lot of debt bc of bush and his stupid desicions.
thankgod bush is out.
he wasnt only ruining his own country. but other countries as well.
you have a lot to learn about war. it's not just 'our troops protecting our country'.
a single cruise missile costs $300,000. now, where does that money go? that money goes to the business that made that missile.
and do you think Bush pulls the money out of his own pocket? it's the PEOPLE who pay for all the big businesses that produce the oil that fuels the tanks, hummers and aircraft, the steel that reinforces the tanks, hummers and aircraft, the plastic that makes the weapons that the troops use to kill other people.
wars cost billions of dollars to maintain for extended periods of time, which is WHY there are homeless people on the street because more and more money is borrowed from the federal reserve bank to SPEND on your precious weapons and armour.
and that money has to be paid back, doesn't it. that's where WE the people come in. so you sit there and tell us to have some respect, while these big businesses and Bush himself are laughing all the way to the bank, saying that this is a war on TERROR. TERROR TERROR TERROR TERROR TERROR EVIL TERRORISTS TERRORIST TERROR TERRORISTS. the word is DRILLED into the people's heads until all of a sudden out of the womb of lies and deceit OUT POPS ugly fucked up sheep like YOU who think the war is good, that the war is helping us, that the EVIL TERRORISTS AND THE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION are gonna be wiped out and we'll be safe.
while we lose our jobs, lose our homes, lose everything, and trillions of our dollars simply get pumped back into the big companies that simply LOVE to try and make a war last AS LONG AS POSSIBLE to get as much money out of it as possible. it's all for their own wealth. but you're obviously too far gone, i'm sorry for the loss of your soul.
President Bush manages to screw up the economy which caused several people to loose their jobs so on the contrary it is parcially Bush's fault.
As far as giving the homeless 5$ a day. I think the money would be better spent on them, then to help kill people in Iraq. I'm all for the troops, but if we didn't have a war then we wouldn't have to worry about spending money to protect them now would we?
Oh and as a side note. Perhaps you shouldn't complain about how stupid Democrats are when you can't use proper grammer.
I suppose you agree with every desicion the president makes without questioning.
I't a great song. I'm glad someone mainstream finally had the guts to do it.