So here i am at work today working hard at the butchers, hosing random body parts and blood off the ground. And all of a sudden, that pink some comes on.
You know, the one called "Dead Mr Presdient" or whatever the hell it is. To cut a long and boring song short, here are the 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?
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?
So youll notice i hightlighted some things in bold. Here is my wrath.
What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street? (what about you pink? do you stop and pull over in your half a million dollar limo or imported mercedes/bmw/ferarri and offer them a ride? or a sponge bath?)
Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep? (not the same people that you do pink, that is, the thousands of people who pay rediculous amounts to come and see you shout random rebelious lyrics into a microphone, and at the end you've just earnt more money than most of the people in the audience do in a year? 'oh please, let more people cram my concerts, i need a new solid gold house!')
What do you feel when you look in the mirror? (what about you pink? what do you feel when you look in the mirror and see your bathroom that is worth more than most peoples houses? or the diamonds you had attached to your teeth? no thats not a joke folks, she actually has diamonds attacthed to many of her teeth, she said so on some tv show)
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry? (US? sorry, you included yourself in that group? yes pink, im sure you cry yourself to sleep, surrounded by your millions of dollars and platinum records hanging on the walls and your sheets made from 100 dollar bills. yes, im sure you cry while the president sleeps)
How do you walk with your head held high? (what, and you dont? your successful singing career? your mountains of money? that doesnt leave your head held high? if all that cash still leaves you depressed, you got problems. hand it over pink, i know people that would hold their head high with that sort of cash!)
We're not dumb and we're not blind. (again, stop using 'we'. you are not part of that group pink.)
You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine. (yes, im sure youve never tried drugs or alcohol in your life pink! oh sorry, maybe you should change the lyrics to vodka and dope you hypocrite!)
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry? (again with the us! your still crying are you? what is it pink? you dont know how to spend your money? oh i can see how that would bring a person to tears!)
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way (sorry? you want to tell ME about hard work? is singing hard work is it? oh damn...i guess ive got it easy after all...apparently singing is HARD work. minimum wage...pfft...who hasnt copped that at some point in their life. a baby? PINK HAS NO KIDS!)
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away (shit, im sure ive never heard about your house getting bombed pink. i think i would have herd that on the news or something)
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box (pink, you have it all wrong. thats not carboard, they are 50 dollar notes! silly pink...)
You don't know nothing 'bout hard work (what, and you do?)
How do you sleep at night? (what about you pink? how do you sleep at night? here ill take a guess...you walk into your room which is bigger than most apartments. you take off your designer clothes and check your diamonds attached to your teeth one last time. then you get into your bed so big it doesnt even have a size, and fall asleep whilst hearing the gentle rustling of thousands of dollars that you sleep with)
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STATEMENT OF INTENTION
I did this for a few main reasons.
1, to vent some anger.
2, to have a bit of a laugh.
3, to prove that some people are hypocrites.
4, to try and understand why pink honestly thought she was one of those people making a bed out of cardboard boxes or building her house again after it got bombed. alas, i couldnt achieve this one.
I UNDERSTAND what she is saying may be true, but my point is, she aint the one to say it. the other thing is, yeh there are problems with the world, but there is no quick fix. she expects to just have someone snap their fingers and change it all in an instant. sorry pink, it aint gonna happen. next time you go to have another diamond fitted somewhere in your teeth, why not stop and think about changing some of those things yourself? hey? stop blaming all the shit in the world on your president, when it comes down to it, its up to the people.
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Feel free to comment, laugh, add, and flame. But beware, if you flame, i dont go down without a fight.
Well played sir. You sound like Carlos when he destroys those chain letter things on myspace;). Nice rant, and I totally agree with you. She's a damn hypocrite.
*breathes deeply and blinks lots of times really fast*
HMM!! good job there roo. you make your old man proud.
you forgot one thing, the part about minimum wage. i dont think she's worked for minimum wage for at least 10 years.
one tip. for laughs, you blow it out of proportion, like really exagerate things.
one more thing, ill be posting the myspace rants in a thread here tonight. hope people can enjoy them. very nice job jarhead. too bad i didnt hear the song first, i would have been furious.
What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street? (what about you pink? do you stop and pull over in your half a million dollar limo or imported mercedes/bmw/ferarri and offer them a ride? or a sponge bath?)
Indubidoubly, my good friend. I certainly don't think there's anything wrong with rich people speaking out against poverty, but there is something wrong with being self-righteous about it. And if she's not donating money to help the homeless, how is singing about it in a pop song gonna make a difference. It's not like all her teeny bopper listeners are gonna go take to the streets.
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Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep? (not the same people that you do pink, that is, the thousands of people who pay rediculous amounts to come and see you shout random rebelious lyrics into a microphone, and at the end you've just earnt more money than most of the people in the audience do in a year? 'oh please, let more people cram my concerts, i need a new solid gold house!')
It is indeed unfortunate when on a whim, a pop singer decides to go political. Her credibility isn't exactly high. Her target audience doesn't care for her whiney music, and her actually audience doesn't give a crap about politics.
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What do you feel when you look in the mirror? (what about you pink? what do you feel when you look in the mirror and see your bathroom that is worth more than most peoples houses? or the diamonds you had attached to your teeth? no thats not a joke folks, she actually has diamonds attacthed to many of her teeth, she said so on some tv show)
Well maybe she only cares about poor people in the U.S. And not the ones in Africa who are forced to work in diamond mines that fund rebel armies. The same rebel armies who force male children to work as rebel guards and the female children to work as sex slaves. The same rebel armies that raze entire villages and terrorize inhabitants into submission. Pink probably thinks Sierra Leone is a clothing line.
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How do you sleep while the rest of us cry? (US? sorry, you included yourself in that group? yes pink, im sure you cry yourself to sleep, surrounded by your millions of dollars and platinum records hanging on the walls and your sheets made from 100 dollar bills. yes, im sure you cry while the president sleeps)
Maybe the "us' was referring to other rich pop stars who cry because they only own five to seven sports cars instead of a lofty ten.
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How do you walk with your head held high? (what, and you dont? your successful singing career? your mountains of money? that doesnt leave your head held high? if all that cash still leaves you depressed, you got problems. hand it over pink, i know people that would hold their head high with that sort of cash!)
Yes, well, obviously by now we're establishing what a self-righteous ho bag she is.
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We're not dumb and we're not blind. (again, stop using 'we'. you are not part of that group pink.)
This reminds me of many of my tutoring sessions where the writer continues to write in 2nd person. They're saying, "How would you like it if..." or "We all need to realize..." And I'm like, why are you pointing the finger at me? Or us for that matter?
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You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine. (yes, im sure youve never tried drugs or alcohol in your life pink! oh sorry, maybe you should change the lyrics to vodka and dope you hypocrite!)
God, what politician hasn't done drugs or alcohol in their life. And cocaine aside, what the hell is wrong with whiskey? Brownest of the browns....
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Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way (sorry? you want to tell ME about hard work? is singing hard work is it? oh damn...i guess ive got it easy after all...apparently singing is HARD work. minimum wage...pfft...who hasnt copped that at some point in their life. a baby? PINK HAS NO KIDS!)
While I'm sure she does work hard while she's touring, I doubt she stays up late working hard on any of her songs. A semi-talented child could come up with those riffs and funky beats, I'm sure.
Quote from "Jarhead89" »
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away (shit, im sure ive never heard about your house getting bombed pink. i think i would have herd that on the news or something)
She should have narrowed the thesis of her song. This is called "biting off more than one can chew". It's also called "sweeping generalizations".
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Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box (pink, you have it all wrong. thats not carboard, they are 50 dollar notes! silly pink...)
LOL And besides, I doubt setting up a cardboard box so you can sleep on it is all that difficult.
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I UNDERSTAND what she is saying may be true, but my point is, she aint the one to say it. the other thing is, yeh there are problems with the world, but there is no quick fix. she expects to just have someone snap their fingers and change it all in an instant. sorry pink, it aint gonna happen. next time you go to have another diamond fitted somewhere in your teeth, why not stop and think about changing some of those things yourself? hey? stop blaming all the shit in the world on your president, when it comes down to it, its up to the people.
I think for the most part you're right. Even for the sake of spreading awareness, her delivery was horrible. The lyrics lack subtlety. I've heard some really great politically driven songs in my life. And most of those songs don't just come right out and declare their message. They're crafty with their words, they leave a dose of ambiguity in them, they leave it more to the listener to interpret and discuss the lyrics.
Indubidoubly, my good friend. I certainly don't think there's anything wrong with rich people speaking out against poverty, but there is something wrong with being self-righteous about it. And if she's not donating money to help the homeless, how is singing about it in a pop song gonna make a difference. It's not like all her teeny bopper listeners are gonna go take to the streets.
[/size][/size][/font]It is indeed unfortunate when on a whim, a pop singer decided to go political. Her credibility isn't exactly high. Her target audience doesn't care for her whiney music, and her actually audience doesn't give a crap about politics.
[/size][/size][/font]Well maybe she only cares about poor people in the U.S. And not the ones in Africa who are forced to work in diamond mines that fund rebel armies. The same rebel armies who force male children to work as rebel guards and the female children to work as sex slaves. The same rebel armies that raze entire villages and terrorize inhabitants into submission. Pink probably thinks Sierra Leone is a clothing line.
[/size][/size][/font]Maybe the "us' was referring to other rich pop stars who cry because they only own five to seven sports cars instead of a lofty ten.
[/size][/size][/font]Yes, well, obviously by now we're establishing what a self-righteous ho bag she is.
[/size][/size][/font]This reminds me of many of my tutoring sessions where the writer continues to write in 2nd person. They're saying, "How would you like it if..." or "We all need to realize..." And I'm like, why are you pointing the finger at me? Or us for that matter?
[/size][/size][/font]God, what politician hasn't done drugs or alcohol in their life. And cocaine aside, what the hell is wrong with whiskey? Brownest of the browns....
[/size][/size][/font]While I'm sure she does work hard while she's touring, I dbout she stays up late working hard on any of her songs. A semi-talented child could come up with those riffs and funky beats, I'm sure.
[/size][/size][/font]She should have narrowed the thesis of her song. This is called "biting off more than one can chew". It's also called "sweeping generalizations".
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LOL And besides, I doubt setting up a cardboard box so you can sleep on it is all that difficult.
[/size][/size][/font]I think for the most part you're right. Even for the sake of spreading awareness, her delivery was horrible. The lyrics lack subtlety. I've heard some really great politically driven songs in my life. And most of those songs don't just come right out and declare their message. They're crafty with their words, they leave a dose of ambiguity in them, they leave it more to the listener to interpret and discuss the lyrics.
even though i hated it, the system of a down BYOB song is a good example. it took me a good week of deciphering for me to find out the real meaning of the song. then i never heard it again if i could help it.
Haha siaynoq...your posts were funnier than mine...i deliver it with an aussie sense of humor, whereas you manage to deliver a crushing blow of sarcasm topped off with intelligence and appropriate humor. I dont know what that means, all i know is your a funny bastard and i love you (in a non sexual way)
We should have a weekly rant thread, to be run by Carloseus, Siaynoq and myself. Haha now that would be fun.
yea, it was really good. i personally didnt know that much anger could come from one aussie. now i know. i picked a fine choice when i grabbed you into SLAYERS.
You know, the one called "Dead Mr Presdient" or whatever the hell it is. To cut a long and boring song short, here are the 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?
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?
So youll notice i hightlighted some things in bold. Here is my wrath.
What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street? (what about you pink? do you stop and pull over in your half a million dollar limo or imported mercedes/bmw/ferarri and offer them a ride? or a sponge bath?)
Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep? (not the same people that you do pink, that is, the thousands of people who pay rediculous amounts to come and see you shout random rebelious lyrics into a microphone, and at the end you've just earnt more money than most of the people in the audience do in a year? 'oh please, let more people cram my concerts, i need a new solid gold house!')
What do you feel when you look in the mirror? (what about you pink? what do you feel when you look in the mirror and see your bathroom that is worth more than most peoples houses? or the diamonds you had attached to your teeth? no thats not a joke folks, she actually has diamonds attacthed to many of her teeth, she said so on some tv show)
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry? (US? sorry, you included yourself in that group? yes pink, im sure you cry yourself to sleep, surrounded by your millions of dollars and platinum records hanging on the walls and your sheets made from 100 dollar bills. yes, im sure you cry while the president sleeps)
How do you walk with your head held high? (what, and you dont? your successful singing career? your mountains of money? that doesnt leave your head held high? if all that cash still leaves you depressed, you got problems. hand it over pink, i know people that would hold their head high with that sort of cash!)
We're not dumb and we're not blind. (again, stop using 'we'. you are not part of that group pink.)
You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine. (yes, im sure youve never tried drugs or alcohol in your life pink! oh sorry, maybe you should change the lyrics to vodka and dope you hypocrite!)
How do you sleep while the rest of us cry? (again with the us! your still crying are you? what is it pink? you dont know how to spend your money? oh i can see how that would bring a person to tears!)
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way (sorry? you want to tell ME about hard work? is singing hard work is it? oh damn...i guess ive got it easy after all...apparently singing is HARD work. minimum wage...pfft...who hasnt copped that at some point in their life. a baby? PINK HAS NO KIDS!)
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away (shit, im sure ive never heard about your house getting bombed pink. i think i would have herd that on the news or something)
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box (pink, you have it all wrong. thats not carboard, they are 50 dollar notes! silly pink...)
You don't know nothing 'bout hard work (what, and you do?)
How do you sleep at night? (what about you pink? how do you sleep at night? here ill take a guess...you walk into your room which is bigger than most apartments. you take off your designer clothes and check your diamonds attached to your teeth one last time. then you get into your bed so big it doesnt even have a size, and fall asleep whilst hearing the gentle rustling of thousands of dollars that you sleep with)
******************************
STATEMENT OF INTENTION
I did this for a few main reasons.
1, to vent some anger.
2, to have a bit of a laugh.
3, to prove that some people are hypocrites.
4, to try and understand why pink honestly thought she was one of those people making a bed out of cardboard boxes or building her house again after it got bombed. alas, i couldnt achieve this one.
I UNDERSTAND what she is saying may be true, but my point is, she aint the one to say it. the other thing is, yeh there are problems with the world, but there is no quick fix. she expects to just have someone snap their fingers and change it all in an instant. sorry pink, it aint gonna happen. next time you go to have another diamond fitted somewhere in your teeth, why not stop and think about changing some of those things yourself? hey? stop blaming all the shit in the world on your president, when it comes down to it, its up to the people.
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Feel free to comment, laugh, add, and flame. But beware, if you flame, i dont go down without a fight.
-Jarhead AKA Roo
Thanks for the support fudders!
HMM!! good job there roo. you make your old man proud.
you forgot one thing, the part about minimum wage. i dont think she's worked for minimum wage for at least 10 years.
one tip. for laughs, you blow it out of proportion, like really exagerate things.
one more thing, ill be posting the myspace rants in a thread here tonight. hope people can enjoy them. very nice job jarhead. too bad i didnt hear the song first, i would have been furious.
It is indeed unfortunate when on a whim, a pop singer decides to go political. Her credibility isn't exactly high. Her target audience doesn't care for her whiney music, and her actually audience doesn't give a crap about politics.
Well maybe she only cares about poor people in the U.S. And not the ones in Africa who are forced to work in diamond mines that fund rebel armies. The same rebel armies who force male children to work as rebel guards and the female children to work as sex slaves. The same rebel armies that raze entire villages and terrorize inhabitants into submission. Pink probably thinks Sierra Leone is a clothing line.
Maybe the "us' was referring to other rich pop stars who cry because they only own five to seven sports cars instead of a lofty ten.
Yes, well, obviously by now we're establishing what a self-righteous ho bag she is.
This reminds me of many of my tutoring sessions where the writer continues to write in 2nd person. They're saying, "How would you like it if..." or "We all need to realize..." And I'm like, why are you pointing the finger at me? Or us for that matter?
God, what politician hasn't done drugs or alcohol in their life. And cocaine aside, what the hell is wrong with whiskey? Brownest of the browns....
While I'm sure she does work hard while she's touring, I doubt she stays up late working hard on any of her songs. A semi-talented child could come up with those riffs and funky beats, I'm sure.
She should have narrowed the thesis of her song. This is called "biting off more than one can chew". It's also called "sweeping generalizations".
LOL And besides, I doubt setting up a cardboard box so you can sleep on it is all that difficult.
I think for the most part you're right. Even for the sake of spreading awareness, her delivery was horrible. The lyrics lack subtlety. I've heard some really great politically driven songs in my life. And most of those songs don't just come right out and declare their message. They're crafty with their words, they leave a dose of ambiguity in them, they leave it more to the listener to interpret and discuss the lyrics.
Great post, Jarhead
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even though i hated it, the system of a down BYOB song is a good example. it took me a good week of deciphering for me to find out the real meaning of the song. then i never heard it again if i could help it.
We should have a weekly rant thread, to be run by Carloseus, Siaynoq and myself. Haha now that would be fun.
Roo.
And yes, I love a good rant. Takes the edge off. I'd participate in one those any day.
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