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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?

  • Dear Mr. President

  • Were you a lonely boy?

  • Were 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

  • You don't know nothing bout hard work

  • Hard work

  • 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

Dear Mr. President

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P!nk - Dear Mr. President / 親愛的總統先生

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    VoiceTube posted on 2014/03/30
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hard

US /hɑː(r)d/

UK /hɑ:d/

  • adjective
  • Difficult to do; difficult to understand
  • (Of facts) not able to be misunderstood; clear
  • (Of alcohol) strong
  • Involving or requiring lots of work, effort, care
  • Being full of pain, trouble, and problems
  • Strong
  • (Of edge) clear; sharp
  • Difficult to bend, break or cut; solid
  • adverb
  • With lots of force, power, or impact
walk

US /wɔk/

UK /wɔ:k/

  • noun
  • An advance to first base awarded to a batter after four balls have been called.
  • Journey on foot done for pleasure or exercise
  • A journey on foot, especially for pleasure or exercise.
  • verb
  • To move at a regular and fairly slow pace by lifting and setting down each foot in turn.
  • To move with your legs at a slowish pace
sleep

US /slip/

UK /sli:p/

  • verb
  • To have enough beds for
  • To rest your body in bed, as at night time
  • noun
  • Substance in a person's eyes after waking up
  • Period of time during which a person is asleep
work

US /wɚk/

UK /wɜ:k/

  • noun
  • The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
  • Everything created by an author, artist, musician
  • Activity you do in order to make money
  • Place of employment
  • Final product or result of a some labor or effort
  • verb
  • To bring into a specific state of success
  • To be functioning properly, e.g. a car
  • To do your job in your company or workplace
  • To make an effort to do something
  • To operate a machine or device
  • adjective
  • Activity completed in order to make money
goodbye

US /ˌɡʊd'baɪ/

UK /ˌɡʊd'baɪ/

  • noun
  • Something you say when you leave someone
  • An instance of saying farewell.
  • other
  • A farewell remark; a way of saying farewell.
daughter

US /ˈdɔtɚ/

UK /ˈdɔ:tə(r)/

  • adjective
  • (Of a company) being a subsidiary of another firm
  • noun
  • A female child of someone
  • A country that originated from another country
  • A female descendant
  • A female child
  • A female person who is regarded with the affection of a daughter.
  • A female member of a religious community
head

US /hɛd/

UK /hed/

  • verb
  • To hit a ball with your head in a game
  • To be first or at the front or top (e.g. a list)
  • To travel or move toward a particular place; To go in a particular direction
  • To become the leader of something
  • To lead or be responsible for something
  • noun
  • Counter for the number of cattle
  • Natural mental ability or intelligence
  • Leader or person with the greatest authority
  • Mind; mental ability; mental state
  • Side of a coin with a head on it
  • Top part of your body with eyes and a mouth
  • Starting point of something, e.g. a river
father

US /ˈfɑðɚ/

UK /ˈfɑ:ðə(r)/

  • noun
  • A male parent
  • Man who is the first to do or invent something
  • verb
  • To create a child by making a woman pregnant
mother

US /ˈmʌðɚ/

UK /ˈmʌðə(r)/

  • noun
  • Female who has a child or children; female parent
  • verb
  • To take care of someone as if they were your child
eye

US /aɪ/

UK /aɪ/

  • noun
  • The part of the body that you see with
  • The skill to see the good and bad parts of a thing
  • Hole at the end of a needle
  • The organ of sight in humans and animals.
  • The ability to judge something; perception.
  • verb
  • Look at or observe (someone or something).
  • To watch or study something closely