Presentation by: Bradley Escobar

 She calls out to the man on the street
"Sir, can you help me?
It's cold and I've nowhere to sleep,
Is there somewhere you can tell me?"
He walks on, doesn't look back
He pretends he can't hear her
Starts to whistle as he crosses the street
Seems embarrassed to be there
Oh think twice , it's another day for
You and me in paradise
Oh think twice, it's just another day for you,
You and me in paradise
She calls out to the man on the street
He can see she's been crying
She's got blisters on the soles of her feet
Can't walk but she's trying
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Oh think twice, it's another day for
You and me in paradise
Oh think twice, it's just another day for you,
You and me in paradise
Oh lord, is there nothing more
anybody can do
Oh lord, there must be something you can say
You can tell from the lines on her face
You can see that she's been there
Probably been moved on from every place
Cause she didn't fit in there
Oh think twice, it's another day for
You and me in paradise
Oh think twice, it's just another day for you,
You and me in paradise
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 The summary of the song is about a
homeless
woman sitting down on a sidewalk asking passerby’s if they know of anywhere that she could sleep or get food. Everyone has their head up high and ignores the lady and her pleas for help. Phil Collins sings the song as if he were there witnessing this happen in real life.

 In my opinion, the meaning of the song
“ Another Day in Paradise ” is quite clear.
It sends out a message of how we should be thankful to live under a roof, with clothes, and food. The song implies to think twice before you waste anything,
including food, money , clothes, etc. Our
everyday lives is a paradise
to the
poverty-stricken society
that burdens millions of people in America and all over the world

 This song was released by Phil Collins on the album “
…But Seriously
” in 1989.
Homelessness had become an important political topic to discuss prior to the release of the album. By the
1980’s the number of homeless people had grown and increased significantly in the United States and in other places.

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Philip David Charles Collins was born in London, England on January 30, 1951 to a very gifted talented family. His father was an insurance salesman and his mother was a talent agent. His brother became a professional cartoonist. His sister Carole is a competitive ice-skater. Phil became the musician in the family. He began playing drums at the age of five after getting a toy drum kit. At the age of 12, he got a real drum set and entered contests. He loved to play the drums every chance he got. Besides music, he acted, modeled, and loved playing football.
Despite having a career in acting as a child, he grew more towards music. In 1970, he auditioned for the band Genesis and was chosen to be the next drummer. Soon after in
1971, they recorded their first album with Phil, called Nursery Crime. Apart from the band, he also had a solo music career. He recorded his first solo album in 1981. Later the same year, he had his first live solo concert. One of his most popular songs is called
“In the Air Tonight”
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Phil Collins has done some work with the movie industry. He wrote the song “You’ll Be in My Heart” for the movie Tarzan and performed the entire soundtrack for the movie. He was notably in the videogame GTA: Vice City Stories as himself. Overall he has worked with companies including Disney, and Universal Studios.
Collins has been married three times in which all he has had children with. He currently isn’t married. Recently he reported that he could no longer play drums or the piano due to a dislocated vertebrae and the operation that fixed it. He splits his time up to live in New York and Switzerland to be with his children.
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 The US Department of Housing and Urban
Development awards $1,400,000,000 in grants to homeless programs all over the country
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 1. (noun) - a place of extreme beauty, delight, or happiness
 2. (adjective) - a state of supreme happiness; bliss
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 Homelessness is a big issue the United
States. Around 3.5 million people with
1.35 million being children, will experience homelessness in any given year. There isn’t an accurate number of how many people are homeless, but
Soup Kitchens and other organizations have been established all over the country to try to help and prevent homelessness in the United States
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…But Seriously was his fourth album released during his solo career on
November 7, 1989
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“ Another Day in Paradise” reached #1 on the top 40 list that year
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 (noun) - an arrangement of a certain number of lines, usually four or more, sometimes having a fixed length, meter, or rhyme scheme, forming a division of a poem.
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 (noun) - a pair of successive lines of verse, esp. a pair that rhyme and are of the same length
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 (noun) - the act of repeating; repeated action, performance, production, or words.
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 1. (noun) – a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition
 2. (noun) - a unifying or dominant idea
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 1. (noun) - a row of written or printed letters, words, etc
 2. (noun) - a verse of poetry
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