Dear Mr. President - Pink ft. 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 think this song is pretty self-explanatory as to why I chose it, however I'll do my best explaining it. This song is exactly the opposite about what we do. "Let's pretend we're just two people and you're not better than me" The Charter says that everyone is equal no matter what. Doesn't matter if you're the prime minister, a teacher, a CEO of an important company, or just an average person on the street. Everyone is equal no matter their race, religion, age, etc. We all have the freedom to think whatever we want and freedom of speech. This goes with the line "I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly". We have the freedom of speech. We can say what we want no matter where we are. Something that often we take for granted. This song hit me in a number of different ways, everything from working hard with just a minimum wage and a baby on the way, to building homes when they've been bombed. But the one thing that hit me the most was the last line in the song: "You'd never take a walk with me, would you?" Everyone always thinks they're better than everybody else, when really we're all the same. We're all equal with the same rights as everyone else. We don't see that though, we just see someone who has something that we don't have ... an accent, a different hair colour, different skin colour, we can't see past that. It's almost as if there's a glass in front of you and that person. You can see in them, see how nice they are, the good things they want to do, but you can't get past that glass of color, or accent, etc. We have the power to change so many things, but we always get shut down. By "we" I mean students, teenagers, whatever you want to call us. They say that we're not discriminated because of age, but yet we're not allowed to go into certain stores because there's "too many of us". Isn't everyone supposed to be treated the same? I think instead of teaching us about equality rights, they should teach adults, 'cause quite frankly, they have more learn than we do. At least we're not discriminating people around us for no reason. Still, this song was for me what the Charter is about. Or, theoretically, the Charter is the opposite of what the song says.

"Be unique. The last time someone tried to make everyone the same, eleven million people died." - Anonymous