Reading Response:2 Revolution

The more I read the book the more I love it. Andi writes songs one of her songs which she’s never let anyone hear except this one time, a boy she likes asks her to sing it to him. His name is Virgil, she likes him a lot but he lives in Paris and they won’t be able to see each other that much if she went back to Brooklyn. She made the song for her mother after her brother died and her mother went crazy. Since Andi and her father went to Paris, her father put her mother in a psycho ward. Andi does not want her there she thinks that her mother has made but slight progress and thinks it will only make her worst. I think this song is very good it shows how much she cares for her mother and how much she wishes to fix it all.

“If I had coal and fire

And metal fine and true

I’d make an iron band

An iron band for you

I’d pick up all the pieces

From where they fell that day

Fit them back together

And take the pain away

But I don’t have the iron

Andi don’t have the steel

To wrap around your broken heart

And teach it how to heal

Somewhere in the fire

Somewhere in the pain

I’d find the magic that I need

To make you whole again

I’d make the iron band so strong

I’d make it gleam so bright

I’d fix the things I’ve broken

I’d turn my wrongs to right

But I don’t have the iron

And I don’t have the steel

To wrap around your broken heart

Wish I could make it heal

Wish I could make it heal”