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HazelDountLovesBullet 2009-03-13 02:56:16

I adore kelly clarkson! Why is it that the best winners of ai didn't plan on ever being on the show? Kelly's frien made her go, and David Cook was only there to support his brother who was auditioning, but they made him try out, too.
I really love this song because its so. Heartfelt. You can just feel it. She's saying that she's screwed up now because she let you influence her so much, and now she's afraid to trust anyone. God I know how that feels. It really sucks. I'm glad she has songs like this and not just the pop fluff I would have expected from ai.

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strugglingmom 2009-09-07 22:53:38

I can relate to this song. My husband is 12 years older than I am. It was almost 3 years in the marriage that I was able to know his insecurities and hang ups from his family. He imposed a lot of limitations to me, being young and in love, I thought it was his way of caring, but it was not. 10 years after and 3 kids, He is still controlling everything and does not care about my self improvement. He only thinks of himself and what he can get from our relationship, I have adjusted so many times to him but still he is not satisfied. I finally gave up trying to please him. I'm all worn out and got nothing to give anymore emotionally, mentally and physically. "because of you, I am ashamed of my life because its empty!) Now am trying to get back up, but its hard and I'm struggling. Am not giving up though.

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Unregistered 2012-01-24 22:38:37

Because of you" is about the negative legacies parents leave their children with. They enforce their ideas and bad experiences they've had on their kids without realizing the true impact of their words. It's about the vulnerability they create within their children. It's about the way kelly has been influenced by her mother leaning on her in a way that a child shouldn't have to deal with. I believe kelly wrote this song for the future generations when we have children. To make people understand the true impact their words have on their children and to tell us it's not ok; kids need stability and encouragement to go out and experience things for ourselves.

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Unregistered 2020-02-02 15:37:38

This song makes me think about when I was sexually assaulted. “Because of you I try my hardest just to forget everything, because of you I don’t know how to let anyone else in”. I was very drunk and he took me to the bushes and proceeded to assault me. The song talks about someone who is very cautious and broken because of someone else in her life that destroyed her. Ever since the assault I’ve been very hyper sensitive of guys and just people in general. It’s killed me inside not telling people out of fear that they won’t
Believe me and just the shame of it. I’m the song kelly Clarkson talks about a lot of shame which resonates with me

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lkjhgfdsa 2009-06-12 18:20:52

I was abused for many years of my life, by my own father. And allthough I try to forget it and be normal there is still something in me that makes me feel so little, fragil and broken when I think about it. And everytime I hear this song it makes me tear up it reminds me of the facts. I was so young, he should have known better than to lean on me. :(

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Unregistered 2021-06-27 12:06:57

I feel like these lyrics explain the entire path of my soul. My mother was terribly physically abused by my father and since my first steps I felt like I needed to protect her so of course my father included me in the beatings and I remember asking her why she didn’t just leave. She always said it just wasn’t that easy. Because of her I swore nobody would ever put me through that hell again and I never let anyone near me. I always wore that fake smile and I’ve never known what it’s like to be loved by anyone, not even myself. I’m 55 years old and I just left an abusive relationship which was only the second relationship I’ve ever had. The first one did the same thing and I don’t know why I let it happen. It was like I was stuck in a rerun of my parents’ relationship and I just couldn’t move. Nobody let me down as much as I did myself and now I’m trying to gain my own trust back. I’m supposed to be smarter than that but now I know what my mom meant when she said it wasn’t that easy to leave.

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jtip 2019-12-09 04:19:59

I can relate to this song in some ways. When I was 3 my father left my family a little after my brother's 1st birthday and I cried every night for a week until we started seeing him again, after a few months he did something that made hate him so much and even made me fear him. We went to his house and watched dolphin tail (I was 4) after that he said "I have a game we can play its called SPOONS" so we all agreed without knowing what the instructions we or even what the game was. After 5 minutes or so of waiting for our dad to come back with the materials for the game we got so bored we searched for food, then all of the sudden my dad came walking in the kitchen(where my sisters were) and started hitting my sisters with wooden and metal spoons, it made me so upset I went up to my dad and said "daddy, could I please have a spoon?" he asked if I would help him hit my sisters and I said yes only to get the spoon and give it to my sisters hiding under a table, he did that to us for weeks until his roommate kicked him out. Then when I was 11 my brother was 7 one of my sisters was 14 and one 12, we were staying at a hotel with my dad, his girlfriend, and his mom(we hate all of them)
Basically my dad shook my sisters head against the backboard of a bed and gave her a concussion along with lots of anxiety and depression, she was afraid that everyone around her would hurt her as her dad did and we all felt the same way. I am 13b now and still have to go with my father, my oldest sister(abused one) doesn't and that makes me so happy, but every time I look at my father I don't see a father I see an abusive lunatic.

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Unregistered 2012-01-06 06:10:39

I'm going through a hard time have been since septenber and one certain person took my bf away forever and there aint no one to talk to and when I get down so low I song it and its my revengs cuz I can't do anything to her cuz a)I'm a christan and it wouldnt be right b)what I would do she probably turn it around to hurt my c) I'm a pastors kid.

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Unregistered 2021-03-31 06:28:06

this song means so much to me. not only does it perfectly describe what my parents have put me through since i was a child and manipulated me to believe that they were always right. i relate with kelly in this song because our parents were both very emotionally absent in our lives. i think all parents should listen to this song and consider whether what they believe is “good parenting” is actually hurting their children.

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nofacenoname 2015-07-31 18:39:57

Kelly wrote this song about her parents' divorce. My mom cheated on my dad a lot and he loved her more than anything. I found out as a kid by intercepting a phone call between my mom and her boyfriend and she asked me to hide it from my dad. I watched their relationship fall apart, and now being an adult, I avoid forming attachments to people. I've been married to one of my friends for years and I cannot even bring myself to love him. I just think about watching my dad cry, and take his frustrations out on me because I reminded him of her. This song kicks my a*s.

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Unregistered 2012-03-17 03:41:56

Because of you of kelly clarkson promulgates how a girl changed her life's perception after knowing a damn guy. They broke up but she had many realizations that made her a better one. She lost the one she love but did not give up on life. She said that she will never do the same mistake the guy did to her. Though she is now afraid to trust anyone, she has in mind that in choosing someone to love is to pick the deserving one not just whom you think the perfect one.

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beyoncesux 2009-07-27 05:00:17

The songs about her mother and how when there were problems in her house her mom shuts her out and left her to deal with it by herself as well as taking out her anger and frustration on her daughter. Its really sad cuz this happens in families everywhere where the parents neglect their kids cuz of their own selfish problems, and only turn to the kids when they need to dump on them and force their problems onto them. I think this is why alot of kids are depressed, cuz they have to constantly hold up their parents and get nothing in return :(

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Princess-Hayley96 2009-07-17 00:55:08

I once read this fan fic, and this girls mother remarried, and he started abusing them, s she runs away to live with her dad halfway across america, and she sings this song, and she means like how se always patched up her mother, but her mother didn't care about her. And how she had to be the strong one, and she was too young to cope with it all. I think that is inda the perfect meaning for those circumstances.

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thingk15 2009-04-23 12:42:47

This song is reallly sad this is a good song for kids that are getting her by there mom or just the dad and or fighting with your boyfriend and or your best friend when I hard this song I makes me wanna cry because my boyfriend did the same thing he cheat on me he was with a girl in his school. And my bestfriend I love her so much and I never want to lose her and we fight all the time and she always makes me feel bad inside
but we are still friends.

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brittt 2009-04-21 00:45:53

I had to sing this song a couple of times to get what it really meant and I finally got it I had the same thing happen to me my boyfriend brady had another girlfriend for 3 weeks and I finally found out and he said after that we never dated because that first time I broke up with him he wanted payback so I think the song is about payback because it said you only think of your own pain week later he said sorry I forgave him but every time I hear this song ill think of him=(

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luvinGirlsAloud 2009-04-13 23:29:22

I love it, its a beautiful song sung by a beautiful voice. Kelly Clarkson is like one of my favourite American artists! She is deffently up there in the charts with Beyonce! And she is my favourite singer eva! And Kelly not far behind her! Love all her songs! I no what she means! Its like finding it hard to trust people after something that has happened in the past! I always have been like this, very few people I feel I can trust. It makes me feel that there are others out there same as me.

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Unregistered 2016-04-07 09:54:24

This song reminds me of my ex. I was 18 n I was half asleep n he raped me. I didn't trust people easily after that I still don't completely. My bf I didn't really trust him until 2 yrs after we were together. He was patient with me n understood. It's been 6 yes we have been together now.

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Unregistered 2012-04-02 08:51:57

Love can give someone the power to break you. That's one thing I know from deep within the depths of my heart and soul. Love is like a nuclear weapon. Unfortunately you cannot choose who to love and how much. It has caused so much desruction in the world but is at the same time the causre of complete happines. That is what true love does, no matter how much you can try to justify it.

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Soniyah 2009-10-26 18:41:19

As children we idealise our parents. It's very distressing to grow up and learn that the most happy childhood memories are often fraught with pain, hurt and shame. Parents need to start thinking about their children as more than just empty vessels. Children are incredibly receptive to actions and behaviours enacted by parents and naturally take up protective roles towards the abused parent. Let adult problems stay there and let it not plague the hearts and minds of our young special ones. I realised how parentified I'd become as a child, dealing with my parents' problems and taking care of my siblings. Up to this day the pain stays with me as I've lost out on a normal childhood and neglected myself. I've trying to cope with it and have an amazing partner who's helped me thus far. I maintain good relations with my parents but still cry each time after I meet them or talk to them because I still love them but it has killed off a part of me inside that cannot be repaired.

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mel-mel 2008-11-09 08:47:51

Personally this song has a hidden message and that's like saying walk in the foot steps of someone else but don't make their mistakes.
This is what she has done and unfortunately it takes her till she is hurt to realise this and she doesn't want to be hurt again by a selfish jerk. In reason for this she stays inside and wont open up untill many years later. It canralte to any one and her personal experiance.

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