2011年3月17日,安徽芜湖,6位父亲因孩子患上白血病,倾其所有后,他们抛下男人的尊严,“组团”走遍全国,沿街摆摊募捐,为孩子的生命“乞讨”。
身边朋友的女儿,因先天性心脏病不久前才动完手术,其父亲仍沉迷赌球;另一个则前不久做了父亲,一有钱就跑到机室。如果他们看到这图片,是否有所醒悟呢?
电影<August rush> 插曲
Raise It Up
曲词:Jamal Joseph/Charles Mack/Tevin Thomas
演唱:Jamia Simone Nash/Impact Repertory Theater
No father figure in the house
(房中并没有父亲的身影)
And I'm wondering how I'm gonna work it out, oh
(我不知道该如何度过难关)
My friends keep on telling me how I don't need that man,
(朋友不断告诉我,说我不需要父亲)
but they don't really understand
(但他们真的不明白)
There's far too many presures in reality
(现实中有太多困难)
But dealing with the pain and stress and poverty and
(面对压力、贫穷与痛苦)
I gotta be myself because there's nobody else for me
(我要坚持做我自己,因没有别人会帮我)
(heading there with me)
(跟著我一起坚持下去)
Sometimes it takes a different kind of love to raise a child
(有时,育养小孩需另一种爱)
(so don't give up) So don't give up (when presures come down)
(所以别放弃!当压力降临)
Sometimes it takes a different kind of dream to make you smile
(有时做点不同的梦能让你开怀)
(so raise it up) So raise (hang in there with me)
(振作起来吧!跟著我一起坚持下去)
Sometimes we need another helping hand to show the ways
(有时需要援手指点迷津)
(so don't give up) So don't give up (when presures come down)
(所以别放弃!当压力降临)
Sometimes it seems impossible and that's why we pray
(有时你会心灰意冷,所以我们祷告)
(so raise it up) We raise
(振作起来吧!)
Seems to be nothing left for me
(似乎我已一无所有)
Momma is gone daddy didn't wanna be
(妈妈不在了,爸爸离开我)
And now I'm all by myself wondering where is love
(我孤苦伶仃,不知何处有爱)
or should I just give up ,you know
(或许应该放弃了吧)
Life falls down on me, cuts into my soul
(生命压迫着我,撕裂我的灵魂)
But I know I got the strength to make it throgh it all
(但我知道我有力量克服一切)
Cause I'm still standing tall
(因为我依旧昂首站立)
Breaking throgh this wall I'm gonna give my all
(我会尽我所能克服阻碍)
Feeling like a motherless child
(我就像个没有妈妈的孩子)
Hankered into my soul
(在灵魂深处渴求安宁)
It's bringing me down can't find my smile, on a face of a motherless child
(没有妈妈的孩子脸上,永远没有笑容,使我消沉)
I'm gonna break down these walls
(我会尽我所能克服阻碍)
Gonna give it my all ya know
(跟著我一起坚持下去)
yeah yeah yeah yeah
(heading there with me)
(跟著我一起坚持下去)
Sometimes it takes a different kind of love to raise a child
(有时,养育小孩需另一种爱)
(Sodon't give up) So don't give up (when presures come down)
(所以别放弃!当压力降临)
Sometimes it takes a different kind of dream to make you smile
(有时做点不同的梦能让你开怀)
(so raise it up) So raise it up (hang in there with me)
(振作起来吧!跟著我一起坚持下去)
Sometimes we need another helping hand to show the ways
(有时需要援手指点迷津)
(so don't give up) So don't give up (when presures come down)
(所以别放弃!当压力降临)
Sometimes it seems impossible and that's why we pray
(有时你会心灰意冷,所以我们祷告)
(so raise it up) We raise(振作起来吧!)
[Impact Repertory Theater 是由一群来自美国纽约市曼哈顿哈莱姆区的非裔美国人组成的合唱团]