D-PAN'S World Premier of "Beautiful"
Deaf Performing Network
LINK:
http://www.d-pan.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=57&Itemid=58

ALTERNATE LINK:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6zVFGpGNJQ

Here is the original Christina Aguilera music video with English subtitles:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tUqP_TyY0eA

Here are the English lyrics:
Christina Aguilera - Beautiful Lyrics

Every day is so wonderful
And suddenly, it's hard to breathe
Now and then, I get insecure
From all the pain, I'm so ashamed

I am beautiful no matter what they say
Words can't bring me down
I am beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can't bring me down
Oh no, so don't you bring me down today

(Humming)

To all your friends, you're delirious
So consumed in all your doom
Trying hard to fill the emptiness
The pieces gone, left the puzzle undone
Is that the way it is?

You are beautiful no matter what they say
Words can't bring you down, oh no
You are beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can't bring you down, oh no
So don't you bring me down today

No matter what we do
(No matter what we do)
No matter what they say
(No matter what they say)
We're the song inside the tune full of beautiful mistakes

And everywhere we go
(Everywhere we go)
The sun will always shine
(Sun will always, always shine)
But tomorrow we might awake
On the other side

We are beautiful no matter what they say
Yes, words won't bring us down, oh no
We are beautiful in every single way
Yes, words can't bring us down, oh no
So don't you bring me down today

Don't you bring me down today
Don't you bring me down today

(Note: parenthetical phrases indicate the response in a "call and response" pattern where Christina dubs her voice over the vocal track, responding to the first line that she sang.)

SEE ALSO:

http://www.d-pan.com

http://christinaaguilera.com/

D-Pan's    "Waiting On The World To Change"  by John Mayer

Deaf Performing Artist Network

http://www.d-pan.com/index.html

Poem:

Thoughts of a Deaf Child

My family knew that I was deaf

When I was only three, and since then fifteen years ago

Have never signed to me.

I know when I'm around the house,

I try and use my voice.

It makes them feel more comfortable;

For me, I have no choice.

I try, communicate their way --

Uncomforable for me.

My parents wouldn't learn to sign

Ashamed or apathy?

I never cared about the sound of radios and bands.

What hurts me is, I never heard

My parents' signing hands.

                                                                   by Stephen I. Bellitz

(The Poem originally appeared in the Florida School Herald)