I like this song because my boyfriend and I had the same situation. So many people just screwed around with him in life that he was ready to give up. His brother and I convinced him to stop cutting himself. But all the time he says that it was me that helped him not give up. I told him that if he gave up, then I'd have no reason to live and I'd give up too. He promised that he'd brave heaven for me.

Sam cooke meant that one day, even through all the racism that he had to live with, all of it will end and everybody, no matter what color, race religion, or whatever; will get along without discrimination. So if you really are racist you need to rethink where you are in life. Where I live black people, part of the many races that I am, are racist against white people. So I get attacked everyday because they say that my behavior is 'white'. The two major people who help me get through this are my brother and mother. My brother is half white but looks white and my mother is over one fourth white. I grew up without a father and eventually I realized that it's not the color of your skin or where your family's from or even where you go to church at, it's the content of your character and that is why I have few friends where I live. Anybody with me on that?

What I heard: During the Columbine shooting, Cassie, a cristian matyr, was singled out and shot under a desk in the library because she was praying to god for her life to be spared. The shooter looked under, said peekaboo and shot her. Rachel was the one who was asked to question because she was a christian maytr. When asked why she said that she was raised that way. The point to me: whenever there is a school shooting, kinda like the one in Beslam, god always keeps the best kids and lets the other ones have another chance on earth. My Russian cousins and I still fear that it could happen to us because now Beslam is a place of suffering for us.