"Skies are crying, I am watching
Catching tear drops in my hands
Only silence, as it's ending
Like we never had a chance
Do you have to make me feel like
There's nothing left of me?
You can take everything I have
You can break everything I am
Like I'm made of glass
Like I'm made of paper
Go on and try to tear me down
I will be rising from the ground
Like a skyscraper
Like a skyscraper
As the smoke clears, I awaken
and untangle you from me
Would it make you, feel better
to watch me while I bleed?
All my windows still are broken
But I'm standing on my feet
You can take everything I have
You can break everything I am
Like I'm made of glass
Like I'm made of paper
Go on and try to tear me down
I will be rising from the ground
Like a skyscraper
Like a skyscraper
Go run, run, run
I'm gonna stay right here, watch you disappear
Go run, run, run
Yeah, it's a long way down
But I am closer to the clouds up here
You can take everything I have
You can break everything I am
Like I'm made of glass
Like I'm made of paper
Go on and try to tear me down
I will be rising from the ground
Like a skyscraper
Like a skyscraper
(Like a skyscraper)
Like a skyscraper
Like a skyscraper"
Clearly Demi Lovato remembers the falling of the Twin Towers and, alluding to the Freedom Tower set to be finished by 2012. Though it seems a poor choice to build a skyscraper that symbolizes two others that were attacked (rather like a challenge), it is to be built with safer measures than the original World Trade Center. The song mentions being "made of glass" and how the "smoke clears" just as it was in 2001. It is a song of strength: "Go on and try to tear me down/I will be rising from the ground" to give hope for the 9/11 victims' families.*
It also envelops America on a personal level--how though we may be struggling financially ("made of paper"), we can still stand strong together to rise up from the ashes.
*song may be taken completely out of context
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