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=DEAR MR. PRESIDENT - PINK =

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LYRICS
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? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Can you even look me in the eye <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">And tell me why?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Dear Mr. President, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Were you a lonely boy? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Are you a lonely boy? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Are you a lonely boy? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">How can you say <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">No child is left behind? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">We're not dumb and we're not blind. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">They're all sitting in your cells <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">While you pave the road to hell.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I can only imagine what the first lady has to say <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">How do you sleep while the rest of us cry? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">How do you walk with your head held high? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Can you even look me in the eye?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Let me tell you 'bout hard work <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Minimum wage with a baby on the way <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Let me tell you 'bout hard work <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Let me tell you 'bout hard work <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Building a bed out of a cardboard box <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Let me tell you 'bout hard work <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Hard work <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Hard work <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">You don't know nothing 'bout hard work <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Hard work <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Hard work <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Oh

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">How do you sleep at night? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">How do you walk with your head held high? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Dear Mr. President, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">You'd never take a walk with me. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Would you?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">PERSONAL TEXT
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Even though Pink is not one of my favourite artists, I have to say that this song impressed me like not many songs have. It is, in fact, one of the most touching songs I have ever listened to.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The lyrics are the main reason for selecting this song. As you can see, it talks about how unfair life can be for some people and, overall, how the ones whose work is to avoid these things do not do their work properly. It is, therefore, criticising presidents and the little they do for these people who are in constant suffer.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">The song impressed me mainly because of the courage the singer has to have in order to not only create this song but include it in an album and sing it everywhere she goes. After having read about it, I discovered she has sung this song in most of the concerts she has given around the world, which are a lot.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">After knowing about this song I would have thought the singer would have got into trouble with the authorities for doing this, but she hasn’t. And the reasons why she hasn’t caught my attention. I don’t know why exactly, but the only thing I can think of is that the song made presidents and so on think about what it said making them not want to do anything about it to avoid problems with fans and society defending the song.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">I admire how she is the first one to do something like this. It is true that many other singers have produced songs like these before, but of the ones I know, this one is clearly the most direct and because it is not careful about what it says, it can express its message more easily.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Every verse is thoughtful and true, but what really made me stop and think was the end of the song (and therefore the beginning, because they are linked). The song is introduced with the following:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">“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.”

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Right from the beginning we can appreciate how Pink is already ‘making fun of’ presidents in general, by saying ‘let’s pretend you’re not better than me’, meaning that presidents usually feel superior to other people when they really are not. They make others feel less important than them by being too distant, for example.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">It is linked to the last verses of the song: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">“Dear Mr. President, you’d never take a walk with me”.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">With its semi-hidden meaning, this verse in indisputably powerful. It creates the image of how a president would never take a walk with someone who is not of his importance. To me, this verse is the perfect and exact conclusion needed to a song like this one.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">MAIN POINTS OF THE PRESENTATION
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">§ Introduction.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">§ Main reason for selecting this song.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">§ What is impressing?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">§ Possible problem with authorities?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">§ Linking between first and last verses – why are they so vital for the song.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">ACTIVITIES
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">1. Finish the sentences:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">- What do you feel when you see all the _ _ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">_ _ _ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">- We’re not dumb and we’re not <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">_ <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">_? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">- What kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were ? <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">- Minimum wage with a baby on the <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">- Building a bed out of a _ _

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">2. Reorganize the lines.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Sleep how at do you night.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">With high head do walk you how your held.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Bombs away rebuilding took house your after them the.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Long come whiskey way you’ve cocaine a from and.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%;">Sitting your in all they’re cells.