Analysis of the Pink song

2. 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?
How = repetition
Now questioning his response to the world he created
We’re back to honesty again – just like at the beginning

3. Let me tell you 'bout hard work
This stanza has a different
Minimum wage with a baby on the shape/format
way No more questions – she’s telling him
Let me tell you 'bout hard work now
Rebuilding your house after the The government keeps minimum
bombs took them away wage minimal. Between $6.20 and
Let me tell you 'bout hard work 8.00/hr, except for Wyoming, which
pays 5.15 unless you make tips
Building a bed out of a cardboard too, in which case your employer can
box legally pay you $2.23/hr!
Let me tell you 'bout hard work
(NB The min. wage was $3.25/an
Hard work hour when I was your age in 1983.
Hard work That’s over 25 years ago.
You don't know nothing 'bout hard
Bombs – Iraq/Afghanistan
work
Hard work Cardboard box = homeless
Hard work
Spoilt, privileged child
Oh

4. 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?
In the beginning, she opens a
dialogue. In the end, she
realises that it’s pointless.
He’d never listen. All of our
words fall on deaf ears.