As we sing your daily anthem, Would you sing my song, At the top of your lungs?

Cook, 26, stood before the 9,000 participants on the rainy Sunday, first joking that he was there to get a tan, then rallying them around the cause before revealing the news of Adam Cook's death.

"I actually lost my brother yesterday to a brain tumor," he told the crowd, choking up over his words, "and I couldn't imagine being anywhere else right now." Adam Cook, 36, a lawyer in Terre Haute, Ind., who was married with kids, had been battling cancer for more than a decade.

At the early-morning benefit, he said, "I lost one today," addressing all the runners, supporters and organizers, "but I gained 9,000 [friends] and I will be here every year that they will have me."

yaqi first told me about this and my first reaction was just oh gosh.
you know how you always think that sometimes people are infallible and that they can survive many things
i know how i always say david cook is hot, his voice is damn nice, he's cute, talented, etc.
but i think what really makes him appealing is his personality
the fact that he's humble about his fame and using his celebrity status for a good cause i.e. raising money for brain cancer research shows the kind of person he really is
from the songs he wrote for his brother, A Daily AntheM, where all the capital letters make up ADAM, his brother's name; permanent, which has like really nice lyrics, to the tattoos he has which really carry a lot of meaning.
im not even a fan of tattoos but i love his ! (okay im biased haha)











He said he got it after he won Indie Album in Tulsa and the newspaper called him a heartthrob and later he got a tattoo after being teased by his friends. haha. i think i read somewhere in a forum that it is meant to look like some ribbon too, which has something to do with brain cancer, not sure though.














i dont know about this eye tattoo.
and im sure you all remember his AC tattoo, i put it here before.
dont we all love guys who have nice tattoos which actually mean something !



Is this the moment where I look you in the eye?
Forgive my broken promise that you'll never see me cry
And everything, it will surely change
Even if I tell you I won't go away today

Will you think that you're all alone,
When no one's there to hold your hand?
When all you know seems so far away
And everything is temporary rest your head,
I'm permanent.

I know he's living in hell every single day
And so I ask, oh God is there some way for me to take his place?
And when they say it's all touch and go
I wish I could make it go away
But still you say,

Will you think that you're all alone
When no one's there to hold your hand?
When all you know seems so far away
And everything is temporary, rest your head,
I'm permanent.I'm permanent.

Is this the moment where I look you in the eye?
Forgive my promise that you'll never see me cry.

okay i tried my best to make this touching.
it's definitely difficult coping with losing a loved one, i would know that
seeing how well he handled everything on stage and was still able to make the audience laugh really says a lot about him
but at least his brother's in a better place now.
hope david cook never gets forgotten and he'll release albums after albums.