A Threnody for the Victims of Nov 2nd - The Ascent of Everest

[00:00.000] 作曲 : The Ascent of Everest
[01:25.00]"Ten days ago, president admitted that although some people in this country seem to be doing well nowadays.
[01:38.73]Others were unhappy, even worriedbout themselves, for their families and for their futures.
[01:50.18]President said that he didn't understand that fear.
[01:55.85]He said:"Why this country is a shining city on a hill!"
[02:02.00]And the president is right.
[02:07.34]In many ways we are a shining city on a hill.
[02:14.62]The hard truth is that not everyone is sharing the new city's splendour and glory.
[02:23.42]Shining city is perhaps all the president sees from the portica of the White House, of the verandah of his ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well.
[02:36.26]But there's another city. There's another part to the shining city.
[02:44.35]A part where some people can't pay their mortages, and most young people can't afford ...
[02:52.00]Where students can't afford the education they need and middle-class parents watch the dreams they hold for their children vaporate.
[03:04.00]In this part of the city there are more poor than ever.
[03:09.12]More families in trouble, more and more people who need help but can't find it.
[03:17.20]Even worse, there are elderly people who tremble in the basements of the houses they live.
[03:27.14]And there are people who sleep in the city streets, in the gutter where the glitter doesn't show.
[03:38.52]There are ghettos with thousands of young people without a job or an education.
[03:45.56]Give their lives away to drug dealers every day.
[03:55.02]There is despair.
[04:01.70]There is despair, Mr President.
[04:06.18]In the faces that you don't see.
[04:12.00]In the places that you don't visit in your shining city.
[04:21.98]Mr. President you ought to know that this nation is more a "Tale of Two Cities" than it is just a "Shining City on a Hill."
[04:45.33]Maybe, maybe Mr President if you visited some more places, if you went to Appalachia where some people still live in sheds.
[04:57.08]Maybe if you went to Lackawanna where thousands of unemployed steel-workers wonder why we subsidize foreign steel.
[05:17.00]Maybe, maybe Mr President if you stopped in at a shelter in Chicago and spoke to the homeless there.
[05:32.60]Maybe, Mr President if you asked a woman who had been denied the help she needed to feed her children
[05:42.24]Because you said you needed the money for a tax-break for a millionaire or for a missile we couldn't afford to use."
[05:53.33]Not for honour,
[05:55.00]not for glory
[05:58.13]not for profit,
[06:01.05]but for love!
[06:04.22]Not for honour,
[06:07.21]not for pleasure,
[06:10.24]not for profit,
[06:13.08]but for love!
[06:16.32]Not for honour,
[06:19.07]not for glory,
[06:22.11]not for profit,
[06:25.05]but for love!
[06:28.10]Not for honour,
[06:30.92]not for pleasure,
[06:34.02]not for profit,
[06:37.03]but for love!
[06:40.38]Not for honour,
[06:43.22]not for glory,
[06:46.03]not for profit,
[06:48.99]but for love!
[06:51.94]Not for honour,
[06:54.89]not for pleasure,
[06:57.77]not for profit,
[07:00.88]but for love!
[07:04.02]Not for honour,
[07:06.83]not for glory,
[07:09.81]not for profit,
[07:12.81]but for love!
[07:15.72]Not for honour,
[07:18.55]not for pleasure,
[07:21.51]not for profit,
[07:24.34]but for love!