
In the song
Johnny from his new album
The Story Goes, British popstar Craig David, now 24, sings about his childhood experiences at the hands of a bully named Johnny. Because his mother and father ignored what Johnny was doing, he cried himself to sleep at night and tried to hide bruises from his teachers. The lyrics and the melody of the song combine to create a tone of quiet desparation, where Craig wonders if anyone will ever come to help him with his suffering.
This song hits home because I was constantly bullied while in elementary, middle, and early high school. I touched upon it briefly in
this post, but the subject of that post was about eyeglasses, not bullying. The teasing started out with simple namecalling and hiding my glasses to avoid picking on by classmates when I was in first grade. Soon, no matter what I did, a group of kids was following me around at recess doing whatever they could to harass me.
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