Social Awareness Response to Song

A song that is about social injustice is "Dear Mr. President" by Pink (feat. Indigo Girls). The lyrics are:

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

          This song has a lot to do social injustice. I think in the song she's talking to someone really important, like literally the president, and she's saying how there's a lot of social injustice and she doesn't know how this person can keep on living importantly without caring or doing anything about these things. She wants to know how he/she can "dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye," "sleep while the rest of us cry," and "walk with your head held high" when there's all this social injustice that he/she isn't doing anything about. At the end of the song, she says "You'd never take a walk with me would you," and I think that means after all that she said about this person not doing anything about this, he/she wouldn't answer her questions and he/she wouldn't be able to answer any of them, because they're really not doing anything about social injustice. The message of this song is that there's so much social injustice in the world, and no one's doing anything about it.

          The song says a lot about issues when she's saying that she knows more about what hard work is than the important person does. Some hard things she talks about are "Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away," and "Building a bed out of a cardboard box," to show that life is a lot harder for some people than we think. Then she says, "You don't know nothing bout hard work," so she's saying that this person really doesn't know anything about having to do something hard. I agree with this song and it makes me feel angry toward these people who aren't doing anything about social injustice.