时间：2006-07-04
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Ten days ago
President admitted that although some people
In this country seem to be doing well nowadays
Others were unhappy
Even worried
About themselves
For their families and for their futures
President said that he didn't understand that fear
He said：Why this country is a shining city on a hill
And the president is right
In many ways we are a shining city on a hill
The hard truth is that not everyone is sharing the new city's splendour and glory
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
But there's another city
There's another part to the shining city
A part where some people can't pay their mortages
And most young people can't afford
Where students can't afford the education they need
And middle class parents watch the dreams they hold for their children vaporate
In this part of the city there are more poor than ever
More families in trouble
More and more people who need help but can't find it
Even worse
There are elderly people who tremble in the basements of the houses they live
And there are people who sleep in the city streets
In the gutter where the glitter doesn't show
There are ghettos with thousands of young people without a job or an education
Give their lives away to d**g dealers every day
There is despair
There is despair
Mr
President
In the faces that you don't see
In the places that you don't visit in your shining city
Mr
President you are denying that this nation is more a tale of two cities than
It is just a shining city on a hill
Maybe
Maybe Mr
President if you visited some more places
If you went to Appalachia where some people still live in sheds
Maybe if you went to Lackawanna
Where thousands of unemployed steel workers
Wonder why we subsidize foreign steel
Maybe
Maybe Mr
President if you stopped in at a shelter
In Chicago and spoke to the homeless there
Maybe
Mr
President if you asked a woman who had been denied
The help she needed to feed her children
Because you said you needed the money for a tax break
For a millionaire or for a missile we couldn't afford to use
Not for honour
Not for glory
Not for profit
But for love
Not for honour
Not for pleasure
Not for profit
But for love
