‘We’re putting up a fight’: Florida school shooting survivors gave an impassioned performance of an original song following CNN’s town hall
The students who lived through the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School wrote the song for their teachers and classmates killed in last week's shooting.
Students who survived the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last week closed CNN’s town hall on gun control with a message for the world — they aren’t going to back down.
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“You’re not going to knock us down, we’ll get back up again,” the teens in Stoneman Douglas High School’s drama club sang, delivering an impassioned performance of an original song that was written following the shooting at their school that killed 17 people.
The song, titled “Shine,” was written by Sawyer Garrity and Andrea Peña, according to CNN.
These lyrics are from “Shine,” a song written by survivors of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting. Watch the students perform it here: https://t.co/SHNQFW2zny #StudentsStandUp pic.twitter.com/UiqnHERoQm
— CNN (@CNN) February 22, 2018
Peña wrote on Twitter she and her classmate used the song “as a creative outlet so our voices and the voices of those 17 could be heard and never forgotten.”
@SawyerRayne and I used the song #shine as a creative outlet so our voices and the voices of those 17 could be heard and never forgotten
— Andrea|#shineMSD (@AndreaPena06) February 22, 2018
Garrity dedicated the performance to those who lost their lives in the shooting.
“We can all learn to #shine when we work together hand in hand,” she wrote.
https://twitter.com/SawyerRayne/status/966539677137285125
https://twitter.com/SawyerRayne/status/966548833336463360
Watch the moving performance below:
https://www.facebook.com/cnn/videos/10158004565396509/
