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Do you hear that sound?

That melody?

That chorus?

The songs, the fits, the screams,

The anger.

O’

Do you hear that sound?

Pay close mind

Close your hardened eyes,

And listen.

Do you hear their melodic protest?

Their voiced rights

Their justice.

Their tune.

O’

Do you hear that sound?

The million feet a-marching?

The flood of tears that will-

Tear your city down?

Do you hear them now?

Or are you deaf to any problem but your own?

Focus on the drums, that make rhythm and music-

With the solos.

And, I beg, tell me what you hear!

O’

Do you hear that sound?

Or see it even,now?

taste it,smell it, feel it?

Pay attention, or choose and admit to ignorance.

Alice!

Alice!

Spiraling, spinning, growing,

Shrinking

Alice?

did the hat unto which the mad hatter bestowed upon you swallow you whole?

Where has your mind gone, Alice?

Away into a rabbit hole?

You’re mother is crying out for you, Alice

Do you hear her calling? Restless,

In the night,

While you're out painting roses red.

Run, alice, run

Away from your own bed.

How do you manage to seek refuge,

In such a place as your own mind,

When your own mind tricks you like a fool?

You fool, alice, run, alice, run.

They find your footprints in the dirt, and your shoes

On the side of the road.

You’re lost in a world that hates you, alice

So where did you think you could go?

You ran, Alice, ran,

"No," I answer.

"That's what I told them. I said any girl who goes to such lengths to preserve her life isn't going to be interested in throwing it away with both hands. And than there's her family to think of. Her mother, her sister, and all those . . . Cousins."

Before I begin let me just say; I am SPEECHLESS with how amazing the ballad of songbirds and snakes movie interpreted the books. It was phenomenal. They didn't make it into two parts, they didn't change much, it was perfect. But something was lost in the translation:Snow's internal monologue.

Step out of your own mind for a second and pretend you've never read the book. Snow really just seems like this teenager who wants his tribute, who he has fallen in love with, to win and not die. His family is going through a money crisis, they're in debt, his family name is being ruined, it's disastrous. Than he's running away with his girlfriend, and suddenly, boom boom boom, ARE YOU TRYNA KILL ME LUCY GRAY 👿👿 happens, and you're shocked. Yeah, there's some clues here and there, and it all makes sense in a way, but it doesn't take it to the extreme that the book does with snows internal monologue.