Lady Gaga’s latest song “Til It Happens To You” helps bring awareness to an important issue: Sexual assault on college campuses.
With Gaga’s new song comes a moving music video directed by Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight). It depicts two cases of sexual assault on campus (one victim is played by actress Nikki Reed) and how the victims receive support from friends and family in order to move forward:
The end of the video includes a disturbing fact: One in five college women will be sexually assaulted this year “unless something changes”.
“Til It Happens To You” lyrics are below. Lady Gaga and Diane Warren’s words remind us empathy is key when helping victims of assault.
Hold your head up and be strong
Cause when you fall you gotta get up
You gotta get up and move onTell me how the hell could you talk,
How could you talk
Losing till you walk where I walk,
This is no jokeTill It happens to you, you don’t know how it feels, how it feels
Until it happens to you, you won’t know, it won’t be real
No it won’t real
I know how it feels Article Continues BelowTill your world burns and crashes
Till you’re at the end, the end of your rope
Till you’re standing in my shoes
I don’t wanna hear a thing or two from you, from you, from youTill it happens to you
You don’t know how I feel, how I feel, how I feel
Until it happens to you, you won’t know, it won’t be real
No it won’t real
I know how it feels
Till it happens you
Happens to you
Happens to you
Happens to you
Happens to you
Till it happens you
You won’t know how I feel
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