“Dear Mr. President”
by Pink, featuring the 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
- Topic: News & Comment
This gave me pause when I first heard it. I had to look up the lyrics to make sure I hearing correctly. It is simply amazing!
Thank you for the courage to express your option. No matter what the current administration might have us believe, it is our right to disagree with the decisions of our government without denigrating our troops. I am a veteran myself and offended when I hear that I can not disagree with decisions that our government makes without being made to feel that I am in some way less of a patriot than those that toe the party line.
Freedom of speech is our right.
I heard someone say this was a hate song. What I hear is love and pain for our country. It is our moral responsibility to ask our leaders to listen to and serve a goverment of the people, by the people and for the people. God Bless these women for giving us thought provoking truths. I feel no hate, just a whisp of hope he will feel it too. Thank you.
This song is amazing!!! I think she said what most of the people in this country are thinking but to afraid to say. Thanks for giving us a voice!
What does Pink know about “hard work”?
Why blame all Americas problems on one man, whom we voted in twice?
Dave: What’s this “we” shit, Kimosabe?
im english and altho dave is right i think this song is really moving,and it moves me i think its talking about povety and how people have diffrent problemes. i like this song and pink.!!!!
Ok, so Dave, I sincerely don’t think you can simply claim that Pink doesn’t know anything about hard work. Unless you happen to be her freakin’ life long pal, you really have no voice in that. And by the way, plently of people who voted for Bush only voted in his favor because they were too lazy to learn about the opposing canadite and figured, “Hey, he didn’t totally screw up the first round. Why not put him back in office?” And I love Pink!! (Just had to represent!)
Ha it makes me laugh hearing pink talk about hard work.George Bush could tell pink about hard work in the same way she says it to him.They both have worked very little but Bush has worked much harder than pink in his lifetime.It is a very tough job to be President of one of the worst countrys in the world,why does she complain about Bush when she couldn’t do half the job he did.Presidents can’t be tree hugging losers all the time,they simply won’t get work done.
Pink nice attempt to sell some records.
Barney — Is it the position of tea baggers that the United States is “one of the worst countrys [sic] in the world,” as you stated? George Bush was without a doubt the laziest president we’ve ever had. He is an aristocrat and never had to work a day in his life until he was elected.
I love this song and i think pink is so brave to speak to the president like that.
I think everyone Works hard… Just some info… Bush is the only president that kept going on Holidays mind you…
And when PINK writes the words HARD WORK… I don’t think she means it in that sense…
I think she’s just making him realize that this is what’s happening and What does hard work mean to him…
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Aria – Bush did not work hard. He took more time off than any president except maybe Reagan. Bush certainly did take off during the holidays, and he was on vacation when Katrina hit and sat on his ass in Crawford while an American city drowned.