11 - Cash Cash Remix Intro / What About Us

[00:08.00] I always felt very misunderstood
[00:10.19] When everybody is walking in a single flat line
[00:12.02] I have to walk diagonal
[00:13.18] Classic schizophrenia
[00:14.75] I signed up for this life before I got here
[00:16.63] I chose all the challenges
[00:17.81] I chose all the pain of my childhood
[00:19.73] Then I thought that if I talked about real stuff
[00:23.09] I could maybe one day be a songwriter
[00:24.87] And feel those kind of emotions and not be afraid of pain
[00:32.15] It's the connection that motivates me
[00:34.05] I need to know that my pain is helping your pain
[00:38.91] A long time ago I decided that no matter where I went
[00:41.25] Or what I did with my life I was always gonna be very true to myself
[00:44.00] I have always identified with people that struggle
[00:48.48] Just being able to help people, that is the stuff that keeps me going
[00:51.86] We all wanna be loved, we all want to be protected
[00:54.08] We're all pink on the inside
[00:55.44] We all bleed red, we all cry clear tears
[00:57.68] We all put one foot in front of the other
[00:59.12] We wanna have faith in our world
[01:01.25] I'm trouble now
[01:03.16] Yeah, trouble now
[01:05.01] I'm trouble
[01:06.85] Think a lot of women are afraid of the word feminism
[01:09.35] And that's a shame
[01:10.74] I'm not afraid to be a star woman
[01:12.18] This is who you are, this is how you are born
[01:14.74] I wish for women to stop apologizing, girl power
[01:18.49] I'm grateful if I have kept one girl from feeling
[01:21.13] Different or ugly or unempowered
[01:24.04] You have to fight for rights, respect and love
[01:27.19] Kindness and compassion
[01:29.45] And you have to be willing to die for it
[01:33.23] For all the strife and economic woes
[01:35.63] And the world's religious intolerance, global warming
[01:38.98] It boggles my mind that we are spending
[01:41.26] Time, energy and money try to ban love
[01:44.15] I don't want there be gay marriage
[01:45.67] I just want there to be with happy marriage and lasting marriage
[01:54.12] I think the human experience shouldn't be covered up
[01:57.31] I think it should be lived out loud
[01:59.91] I see in other people the truth that's happening
[02:02.84] And I want them to feel comfortable being that
[02:05.06] It felt transcendent
[02:06.82] It felt like taking us into the music
[02:09.42] The music alone has been keeping me going
[02:11.33] I've owned and embraced. my integrity and
[02:14.31] I feel like I still have a lot of fight left in me
[02:21.27] We've been failed by our government
[02:23.52] There's a lot of people that feel forgotten and invisible
[02:26.53] And made to feel less than, unwanted and unloved
[02:30.34] And it hurts my heart, makes me very angry
[02:34.18] I will do everything I can to open people's hearts, ears, minds
[02:37.85] 'Cause I'm not going anywhere
[02:39.59] I've seen change and I have to believe that change is possible
[02:44.74] Because if I stop believing that, then it's just a little too much for me
[02:49.29] So I have a pen and I write, I write about that
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[03:09.27] We are searchlights, we can see in the dark
[03:17.48] We are rockets, pointed up at the stars
[03:25.88] We are billions of beautiful hearts
[03:34.20] And you sold us down the river too far
[03:42.73] What about us?
[03:44.87] What about all the times you said you had the answers?
[03:51.16] What about us?
[03:53.06] What about all the broken happy ever afters?
[03:59.41] What about us?
[04:01.64] What about all the plans that ended in disaster?
[04:07.82] What about love? What about trust?
[04:11.77] What about us?
[04:16.41] We are problems that want to be solved
[04:24.95] We are children that need to be loved
[04:33.48] We were willing, we came when you called
[04:41.53] But man, they fooled us, enough is enough, oh
[04:50.09] What about us?
[04:52.25] What about all the times you said you had the answers?
[04:58.46] What about us?
[05:00.62] What about all the broken happy ever afters?
[05:06.88] Oh, what about us?
[05:09.27] What about all the plans that ended in disaster?
[05:14.99] Oh, what about love? What about trust?
[05:19.11] What about us?
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[05:38.80] Oh, what about us?
[05:42.62] What about all the plans that ended in disaster?
[05:48.99] What about love? What about trust?
[05:52.76] What about us?
[05:57.92] Sticks and stones, they may break these bones
[06:01.43] But then I'll be ready, are you ready?
[06:06.45] It's the start of us, waking up, come on
[06:10.80] Are you ready? I'll be ready
[06:15.01] I don't want control, I want to let go
[06:19.34] Are you ready? I'll be ready
[06:23.00] 'Cause now it's time to let them know we are ready
[06:29.54] What about us?
[06:31.12] What about us?
[06:33.37] What about all the times you said you had the answers?
[06:39.31] So what about us?
[06:41.53] What about all the broken happy ever afters?
[06:46.02] Oh, what about us?
[06:49.93] What about all the plans that ended in disaster?
[06:55.71] Oh, what about love? What about trust?
[07:00.04] What about us?
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[07:17.04] What about us?
[07:26.69] Thank you
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