Photo by gmaresigEdit: You can get the SONA 2009 full text / transcript here.

Since we’re tired of hearing our dear President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo tell us many sugar-coated lies — exaggerating on small progress made, bombarding us with impressive video presentations and ramming so-called impressive statistics down our throats while at the same time downplaying the many important issues that hound her administration to this day, why not, for a change, hear her sing instead?

Beauty, eh? :) Lovely idea, if you ask me. But what song? What song would an honest PGMA would have wanted us to hear? If there was only “us” — the Filipino people and God to listen to her minus her allies (that seem to put so much pressure on her excellency), what do you think the song would be about?

I got a song for you, PGMA. And I would love to hear you sing it to all of us.

Something To Say
by: Harem Scarem

Yesterday I had it all worked out to a “T”
But now something’s wrong between you and me
I was wrong, so wrong
To think that I would stay
Seasons come and seasons go
And today is another day
I wanna say now’s the time
To go our separate ways
I don’t know I might be wrong
Could we find the strength to say
That our love, our love’s seen some better days
And who’s to say if I had the chance
That I’d make the choice to stay
If you ever had something that you wanted to say
You better start talking before I go away
I wish that I could say I’ve been feeling okay
That I’ll be bringing on the better days
But I wouldn’t feel right
Knowing I was lying to you

Am I wasting all my time, will we try to make amends
I try to read between the lines
But all I see is the end

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Yes, PGMA. In today’s 2009 State of the Nation Address happening at 4PM, the last of yours, how I wish you sing this to us. (and if you could also play us the kick-ass intro, that’d be so cool!) And how I wish you digest every line. I have something to say. Everyone has something to say to you.

I used to like you PGMA. I actually voted for you as VP in 98 and as President in 2004. Now, I grieve at such a mistake that have cost me and my country so much suffering.

But you know, you don’t really have to sing it. You can just tell this to us, as sincerely as you can. Tell us the truth — as it is, no lies, no games, no pretense. Tell us that you’ve had shortcomings, tell us you fell short of our expectations, tell us, that you, high and mighty as you are, have also made countless mistakes that steered us into the wrong direction. Then maybe, just maybe, we can forgive you. Because only then can we see the good side of you and your brand of leadership. Stop forcing us to see things through your rose-colored glasses. We both know we are deluding ourselves. In your last hurrah, the last few months of your Presidency, come down from your mighty throne, throw those glasses and let’s see reality together. If you ever wanted to leave us a legacy, leave us a legacy of contrition, of making amends. It may be too little now, but dear President, I tell you, it is never too late.

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Dear countrymen, there you go. If you ever have something that you wanted to say, you better start talking before she goes away — that is, if she ever goes away. #