Composed and performed by Pink
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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?
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March 27, 2006 Tags: music.
From AlterNet: By Adam McKibbin
Every two hours, a young person commits suicide. To raise funding for this epidemic, some concerned musicians and activists have combined forces.
This month, an unusual assemblage will make a return pilgrimage to Capitol Hill, appearing before the press and logging face time with congressmen, all with one goal in mind — increasing funding for suicide prevention. On March 1, punk band Matchbook Romance — along with 11 other bands — and their Take Action! tour mates began a two-month trek across the country, raising money and awareness for a quiet, misunderstood epidemic.
While the names of the bands on Take Action! CDs are changing from year to year, two men behind the project are constants — the National Hopeline Network founder Reese Butler and Hopeless and Sub City Records founder Louis Posen. Butler and Posen will be speaking alongside Sen. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., during the conference on Capitol Hill, and their joint efforts have helped make the Take Action! tour a shining example of all the good that can occur when music and activism cross paths.
But nobody is resting on their laurels. How could they? Not with kids in the United States between the ages of 10 and 24 taking their lives at an alarming rate of one every two hours. The suicide statistics are alarming; the prevention statistics are infuriating. As recently as 2000, the federal government allocated zero dollars to fund suicide prevention programs. In part because of the public efforts of the Take Action! tour — and the 100,000 plus petitions the tour has brought back to Washington — Congress has finally put it into the budget. But, in the grand scheme of D.C. spending, the crisis is merely getting chump change thrown at it. [Read the rest of this article]
The Take Action Tour is coming to Columbus, Ohio on Friday, April 14th @ Newport Music Hall, tickets are $16 available from Ticketmaster.
July 8, 2003 Tags: music.
From the picture on the wall
To the bed post that touched them all
This is where I live
This is where I do my screamin'
How do you say I love you in so many other ways?
This is where I live
This is what I do best
Dreamin' with so much ugliness
Wakin' up to all this beautiful blue
Beautiful you
From the time I walked in
To the point that we're both arguin'
This is how I live
This is where I start screamin'
How do you say I've always felt this way?
This is where I live
This is what I do best
Dreamin' with so much ugliness
Wakin' up to all this beautiful blue
Is beautiful you
Dreamin' under this ugliness
Wakin' up to all this beautiful blue
Beautiful you
Beautiful you
-holly mcnarland
June 23, 2003 Tags: music.
“oh god, i want you to clear my mind, it's covered up with dirt. and i want to taste your skin, one time, before i taste the earth.”
elegia by k's choice single-handedly reaffirms my religious beliefs. meaning if i had to decide i would say music holds the power i look for in a religion. this song gets under my skin and holds on to me more than any organized religion ever has or could. it proves itself and heals me and that's what i need[ed].
“today i'd like to be a cell inside your vein. maybe tomorrow, i will return to you”
k's choice
June 10, 2003 Tags: music.
this is for a certain somebody who i wish i could heal. sometimes the answers are in other people's words, you just have to be willing to stop your own thoughts and read them.
“don’t wanna be nobody’s fool
but you’re playing me so cool
while i try to pacify the storm
inside of you
i feel it coming round the bend
you pull your love away again
leaving just a trace to tempt me
in the wind
i need some shelter from your storm
it’s taken me all this time to get it right
i ain’t trying anymore
you pull away
take me far, far away
from your storm
i feel your storm
this is a strange and subtle game
with an enemy i cannot name
sometimes i think i’m slowly going
insane
‘cause you are good, so good to me
when i bend my body and my mind
when i tiptoe carefully
there’s no telling what will set your storm in motion
that’s your mystery
but i made a pact when times were bad
i said i’d never let you take all that i had
and i’ve come full circle so the lightening and the thunder
are in my hands
and i’m amazed at the power in this rain
i am amazed at the power in this rain
i am amazed at my power when i rain
you would always bring me roses
but that only meant the thorns would cut my hands
my rain will wash away your empty promises
and i begin again”
-lisa hunter
storm
June 5, 2003 Tags: music.
brought to me by my personalized “songs to scream to” cd from judi, this is such a great song. fitting for quite a few moments in my life, and i could very easily dedicate it to some people as well… i'm not the only one who knows how hard it can be to break some habits.
Memories consume
Like opening the wound
I'm picking me apart again
You all assume
I'm safer in my room
Unless I try to start again
I don't want to be the one
Who battles always choose
Cuz inside I realize
That I'm the one confused
I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
I don't know why I instigate
And say what I don't mean
I don't know how I got this way
I know it's not alright
So I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit tonight
Cultured my cure
I tightly lock the door
I try to catch my breath again
I hurt much more
Than anytime before
I have no options left again
I dont want to be the one
Who battles always choose
Cuz inside I realize
That I'm the one confused
I'll paint it on the walls
Cuz I'm the one that falls
I'll never fight again
And this is how it ends
I don't know what's worth fighting for
Or why I have to scream
But now I have some clarity
to show you what I mean
I don't know how I got this way
I'll never be alright
So, I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit
I'm breaking the habit tonight…
March 7, 2003 Tags: music.
“I saw fireworks from the freeway and behind closed eyes I cannot make them go away
Cause you were born on the fourth of July, freedom ring
Now something on the surface it stings
That something on the surface it kind of makes me nervous, who says that you deserve this
And what kind of god would serve this?
We will cure this dirty old disease
If you've got the poison I've got the remedy
The remedy is the experience. It is a dangerous liaison
I say the comedy is that its serious. Which is a strange enough new play on words
I say the tragedy is how youre gonna spend the rest of your nights with the light on
So shine the light on all of your friends because it all amounts to nothing in the end.
I wont worry my life away.
I wont worry my life away.
I heard two men talking on the radio in a cross fire kind of new reality show
Uncovering the ways to plan the next big attack
They were counting down the days to stab the brother in the be right back after this
The unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophy
Dance with me, because if you've got the poison, I've got the remedy
The remedy is the experience. It is a dangerous liaison
I say the comedy is that its serious. Which is a strange enough new play on words
I say the tragedy is how youre gonna spend the rest of your nights with the light on
So shine the light on all of your friends because it all amounts to nothing in the end.
I wont worry my life away.
I wont worry my life away.
You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine and I'll tell you why
Because
The remedy is the experience. It is a dangerous liaison
I say the comedy is that its serious. Which is a strange enough new play on words
I say the tragedy is how you're gonna spend the rest of your nights with the light on
So shine the light on all of your friends because it all amounts to nothing in the end.
I wont worry my life away.
I wont worry my life away.”
-jason mraz
