anonymous May 21st, 2007 05:36PM  
I think this song is about how she has been hurt in the past by someone she loves and now she's afraid to put herself out there again and love at the risk of being hurt. oh well chances are you will deal with it.

anonymous May 26th, 2007 11:43PM  
When I first heard this song, it reminded me of growing up with an abusive parent. The second verse in particular paints a picture of the kind of "walking on eggshells" lifestyle of people in an abusive relationship. The third verse could be more about the other parent who has to live with the abuse going on in their home.

The narrator can't trust anyone in her life because she couldn't trust the people who were supposed to love her most: her parents.

anonymous June 27th, 2007 01:44AM  
This song is about a divorced mom leaning on her daughter for support during a divorce so the girl knows all the pain that comes with love and none of the good stuff. She doesn't want to love someone so that would happen to her. When you have to comfort someone against this kind of pain you brace yourself against whatever brings it so she avoids love and relationships. Kelly's story of her broken home...

WhiteMilkLover August 4th, 2007 04:17PM  
Video 1 {solo}: Her dad beat her mom & neglected her. She always wanted attention his attention but he just left one one day, and she grows up watch her mom (who's life has been ruined by her dad) develop addictions and experience depressions. So, now as an adult she's afraid to let her man leave her because she doesn't want to become her mom.

Video 2 {with Reba McEntire}: Kelly is with a man who beats her & cheats on her. She confides in Reba (a co-worker at the place they sing at). Reba is conflicted on whether or not to say anything to anyone about what going on. He forces her to act like nothing is wrong & she's afraid to say anything or to leave him because even though he beats her, he still makes her fell safe.

anonymous October 17th, 2007 07:48PM  
The song sounds so much like my life. I'm from a broken home. my dad beat my mom to the point she didn't care anymore. They would do this in front of us. It makes it hard to trust people.

Karebear November 29th, 2007 03:20PM  
I honestly this song is about the hardships that Kelly want through as a child and how that affected her. She's basically explaining how she's living her life around her past experiences and how if she has children in the future she wouldn't want them to go through what she went through.

anonymous December 15th, 2007 12:23PM  
It's about her father moving out on her at age 6.

Her mother's heart had misery and couldn't open up and never loved again and had to lean on Kelly.

Kelly married this guy and has a child and she has the same fights as her parents did then and doesn't want her daughter to go through the same hard childhood with out a dad there for her.

Kelly's scared that history repeats itself, even though she doesn't want it to.

anonymous January 15th, 2008 04:36PM  
This song makes me cry every time I hear it because it reflects my life in an way. my parents broke up some years ago when I was six years old, and then they had such a horrible fight and argued about anything.

The worst thing was my mother, who never really cared about my feelings, but always tried to make my father suffer, no matter what effect it had on me. because of these years it is hard for me to let anybody into my heart. I don't want to get hurt again. If you trust someone and you love that person and suddenly this person hurts you, then you close your heart and stay alone with the only person who won't hurt you: yourself.

anonymous February 12th, 2008 03:00PM  
It isn't about any of those things. Her dad raped her.

anonymous March 18th, 2008 08:58PM  
It's about Kelly always fighting with her husband because her dad was an abusive JERK who didn't care about his family.He made her feel afraid and empty inside and her mom would try 2 lean on her."I was so young you should have known better than to lean on me".

So because of her dad she tries to push away her husband in fear of getting hurt by him too. But at the end of the song she realizes she doesn't want to make his mistakes so she makes up with her husband.

anonymous March 18th, 2008 09:01PM  
Watch the music video. It explains the whole thing.

anonymous March 22nd, 2008 09:26AM  
If you ask me, this is definitely about a child suffering from the effects of a broken home. I don't think the father necessarily died because there's no reference to this at all. I do, however, think that he hurt the mother - either by cheating on her or leaving her, etc.. - because the anger and resentment of the mother is portrayed throughout the whole song. It seems that because the mother has been so hurt by the father, she has been jaded to the extent that she doesn't believe in love, and in her own way, the mother tries to protect her daughter from the hurt and heartbreak by showing her the real extent of her pain, but in doing so, by talking to her and trying to help herself, she is emotionally draining her daughter. Her daughter was too young to learn this harsh lesson and was not strong enough to withstand the pain of dealing with a broken home, the disappointment she felt about her father leaving AND be the solid rock for her mother to lean on in her time of pain.
well that's one of my interpretations.. The other could be about an oppressive figure in her life. This person may have been hurt before and it destroyed her so much that she turned her heart to stone so that she would never be vulnerable enough for anyone to ever hurt her again. She puts on a brave face, but she doen't deal with her pain, so despite her heart of steel, insode she's crumbling and falling to pieces. This oppressive person then tries to teach the supposed lesson that she has learnt to the speaker of the song. and although the speaker has learnt from the other's experiences, she does not want to end up cut off from emotion and so bitter and jaded like the other person. but because this other person has such a strong presence and influence in her life, she is trapped. She has no choice but to put on a brave face, because where we see emotion as dealing with pain, this other person is jaded so much that she sees it as weakness.
what do you think? I love this song.. Its so deep and meaningful, and you really feel her pain, resentment, heartbreak and disappointment.

anonymous May 7th, 2008 10:48AM  
I think this song has to do with her family and how she is afraid to end up anything like them. She can no longer trust anyone not even herself. She is reflecting her feelings and I am glad she wrote this song because it is something I can relate to because I am 17 years old and I grew up in a broken home, where nothing and no one is safe.

anonymous July 3rd, 2008 01:40AM  
Well yes she was going through a hard time just like a oot of people (me included) but it was to get that pain out of her especially if she didn't talk to any one about it and that the first verse is saying I think that she won't make the same mistake her parents did she won't let herself cause herself so much pain and that she learned the hard way never let it get that bad. The chorus is that she she learned to be careful so she won't get hurt also and that she finds it hard to trust people and that she is afraid. Then the third verse was that how string she has to be cause she tries to have a smile on her face and she can't cry and that her heart was already broken. Then it is the chorus again. The the fifth verse is that how they just saw their pain and didn't even think about their daughter. Then it is the end.

and this song had helped me personally in my own time that I am going through almost the same thing but the only thing is that I want my parents apart

songinterpreter95 May 9th, 2009 11:17PM  
I know that because of you is a song about her parents, but I see it as her being really scared to do anything that she wants to do. She wants to do all of these things, but her fear of everything is holding her back constantly. She also sees that fear whenever she wants to get close to something, but she fears that it is going to go away soon.

bellabgx3 June 19th, 2009 01:30PM  
this song doesnt jst need to be about divorced families. my brother was going thro a drug addiction and it had a strong impact on my family. i listened to this song and it made me think about how i dont want to make the same mistakes as him and that he put a lot of the stress on me. i was afraid of a lot of stuff and played on the safe side just like the song said.

anonymous October 14th, 2009 09:44PM  
This song is one of my favorites becUse it relates to my life and almost mirrors it. My parents Are divorced too and it's my dad that makes me afraid of anything I say. The verse " because of you I am afraid" is what I feel when my dad doesn't do what he says. I'm aFraid he is going to hurt my heart again. Also the verse " I will not mAke the same mistakes thAt you did" means a lot because I will never try to hurt someones feelings by not showing up for a special event of mine or excluding me because I'm not his favorite child. Mostly the parents in this song are being selfish and not thinking about whAt we kids are feeling deepndown.

anonymous November 1st, 2009 11:59AM  
This song is sad...i think it talks about her parents divorce. my parents died when I was young and kinda had the same effect on me because my mums friend made them angry at each other so in my view they both died of a broken heart. listening to this song makes me cry bares.

it reminds me of why I used to keep myself closed up and didn't make many friends. and like kelly I learned the hard way because when all this happened the people who were close to me were very comforting and even now when I tell people what happened they show me sympathy and although I hate it I'm glad because they remind me to not close myself up.

any way this song is about the burdens she faced and how she was able to see everything going on, every child can always notice when there is a problem and this song points it out and shows the parents self intrest when all this goes down.

now basically she is afraid because she doesn't want to have a broken heart and is afraid to think or love someone because she fears she will be hurt like that.
all her words in this song show a metaphoric view. I watched you die talks about when they got divorced and that her parents were upset about it and the soul which is figured as lifes essence died or was broken in two; from the theory of soul mates which is that God made two different people who once together would be complete and so it talks about breaking up.

now she is crying for the same reason could be that she herself experienced the same problems or was to afraid to take the risk. I feel the same way as kelly and relate to this song so much. There are so many risks that are worth taking and life is not complete without them but saying that I am a hypocrite although it is my view because I never risk my heart because it can never get broken and instead I simply say its ok. The only time I came close was the one day when I listened to this song.it made me think but then I chickened last moment. but still this song can provide inspiration to people to take the risks because there are some things that are worth it whether it is for relationships with family or friends or boyfriends or girlfriends. It teaches not to fake anything and be honest... I think finally listening to this song again has taught me to take risks and if I ever gain the courage to be honest in relationship matters then I would happily say its because of this song...
thank you kelly clarkson <3