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=**__DEAR MR. PRESIDENT __****- PINK **=



> > Pink is a 33 year-old American singer-songwriter, musician and actress named Alecia Beth Hart. She started with a group but produced her first solo __which achieved a great success.__
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 * About Pink
 * About Dear Mr. President
 * Why did I choose this song?
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 * Pink’s courage
 * The silence from the authorities
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 * __About Pink __****: **

It comes from Pink’s fourth album, “I’m not dead”. She said that it was one of the most important songs she had written. She wrote this song as an open letter to the president of the United States of America, George Bush, __to tell him her point of view of today’s situation.__ This song has gained many prizes although it hasn’t been released in the UUEE as it would have had caused revolutions.
 * __About Dear Mr. President: __**

This song __made a great impact on me__ the first time I heard it as I didn’t thought Pink would write such a touching song like this one. I don’t like Pink because her songs are more of a rocky style. However, I loved this song for all the different things it transmits and for __the way these are recollected__. She tells some of the different injustices __of the world__ without complexity, in order to leave everything clear to the president.
 * __<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Why did I choose this song? __**

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Dear Mr. President, <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Come take a walk with me. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Let's pretend we're just two people and <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">You're not better than me. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly.
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Lyrics __****<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">What do you feel when you look in the mirror? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Are you proud?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">How do you sleep while the rest of us cry? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">How do you walk with your head held high? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Can you even look me in the eye <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">And tell me why?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Dear Mr. President, <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Were you a lonely boy? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Are you a lonely boy? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Are you a lonely boy? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">How can you say <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">No child is left behind? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">We're not dumb and we're not blind. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">They're all sitting in your cells <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">While you pave the road to hell.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">I can only imagine what the first lady has to say <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">How do you sleep while the rest of us cry? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">How do you walk with your head held high? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Can you even look me in the eye?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Let me tell you 'bout hard work <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Minimum wage with a baby on the way <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Let me tell you 'bout hard work <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Let me tell you 'bout hard work <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Building a bed out of a cardboard box <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Let me tell you 'bout hard work <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Hard work <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Hard work <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">You don't know nothing 'bout hard work <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Hard work <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Hard work <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Oh

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">How do you sleep at night? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">How do you walk with your head held high? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Dear Mr. President, <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">You'd never take a walk with me. <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Would you?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The lyrics of this song __want to represent__ the injustice present in the world nowadays. Some of these are named throughout the song to show how unfair the world is for some people, but on top of everything, how the people who are responsible to take care of this, just do it worse. She criticizes these people as they don’t help the ones that are under constant suffering.
 * __<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Comment __****<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Many people think that this song is the same as the ones with same themes written by other artists. The problem is that they don’t say directly what they think, at least not like Pink does. This has a huge effect on the audience as they realize that it is all true.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The other interesting fact is the courage the singer has, not only to write it, but to sing it too. She has shown all the strength and bravery** which ironically is precisely that which is ** needed from the president for these types of things.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">A curious thing about this song is that the authorities haven’t said a ** single ** word in complaint. I think that this is because they thought about all the true things she says, and because they didn’t want to __make it a big problem from it__.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">This song is basically __formed by__ the honest questions that Pink asks the president. Some are to understand the president and how he can live with all he has done, others are to show him real life injustices and others are ironic questions that Pink asks him to emphasize that he is nothing compared to the world’s unfairness; for example, “ <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Are you proud?” or “How do you sleep while the rest of us cry?”.

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The continuous consonant rhyme throughout the entire song and the alliteration in, “head held high” just makes the song transmit the message more easily.

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Nevertheless, the characteristic that highlights the main message is the beginning and the ending of the song. At first she asks for him to walk with her, although she knows that he would never do it as she is not important. ** At the end she states clearly that she would not walk with the President?? ** This way of displacement links these parts creating like a sense of repeating the story. This means that the unfair world will always stay there, and so the will the unhelpful but superior people.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">1. <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">How can you say No child is left behind? We're not dumb and we're not blind. They're all sitting in your ………. While you ……… the road to ……...
 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Fill the gaps: __**

What kind of father would take his own daughter's………….. away? And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were ………..? I can only imagine what the first lady has to say You've come a long way from whiskey and ………...

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">2. <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Let me tell you 'bout hard work ……………………… with a baby on the way Let me tell you 'bout hard work Rebuilding your house after the bombs ……… them away Let me tell you 'bout hard work Building a ……….. out of a cardboard box Let me tell you 'bout hard work

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">3. Dear Mr. President, You………….. never take a walk with me. Would you?