anonymous 2006-07-05 21:43:40    

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I think this song is about how a girl grew up hearing her mother and father fight and when she grew up she fought with her boyfriend. Hence "And know I cry in the middle of the night for the same d**mn thing."

anonymous 2006-07-23 16:02:12    

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"Because of you" is one of Kelly Clarkson's most personal as she originally wrote the lyrics when she was sixteen years old to deal with her emotional pain surronding her troubled family life. It was polished by Ben Moody, and David Hodges, and produced by Moody and Hodges for the breakaway album.

anonymous 2006-08-31 15:05:02    

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This song is about a daughter whose parent's marriage fell apart and how it scarred the mother so much so that she was emotionally crippled and unable to start anew. I.E., the mother has transferred her fears of not having a healthy relationship onto her daughter by her constant worries/concerns, whether imagined or real. In the song, it sounds like the mother eventually killed herself and the daughter is only too aware of the impact of her mother's unhappy relationship(s) in her life (the daughter's life) and is now afraid of following in her mother's footsteps.

anonymous 2006-09-18 05:28:48    

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I think that the song is about a young girl seeing the deteriation of her family. Her father left and her mother was broken hearted, it left the young girl mentaly scared and then when she is older she has an argument with a lover and remembers what happened when she was younger ie the arguments and fights and doesn't want that to happen to her family "I will not make the same mistakes that you did"

anonymous 2006-11-27 16:51:27    

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I agree that this song is about the power of divorce on children. I also think that Kelly is a wonderful singer and has a great voice. I do think that she is wrong, however when she writes that she feels in all of these ways "because of you." Divorce and abuse do have powerful shaping forces on lives, but as an adult, Kelly, or anyone else, chooses to let these feelings control his or her behavior. By choosing to not let the behavior of parents who divorce or anyone who is an abuser control them, adults can break free from the control of these people.

Hawk 2007-02-14 19:06:22    

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I think it means her friend or family mem. committed suicide. It's because of other people. Now she misses that person and she is afraid to follow those steps the person has taken, because she doesn't want to kill herself

anonymous 2007-03-31 22:48:12    

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If you listen closely to the lyrics, then it is apparent that it relates most the relationship between a father and a daughter.....the chorus..implies that the father tried his best to make sure his daughter was alright and safe, but never taught her to take risks, never "stray away from the sidewalk." for this reason, she could never take risks, never learn to trust herself even if she did. This is why, she could not find someone she could fully trust and now she is ashamed because her life is empty, i.e., without a guy. Psychologically speaking, the relationship that the daughter had with her father is a precursor to the relationship she will seek in her love life... Her dad performed all the societal obligations of being a father like protection and success, but deprived her of the basic things in life like love, care, concern and trust. and because of him, trust and love is lacking in the daughters life, even now when she is an adult.

anonymous 2007-04-13 11:14:31    

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Broken home. Reminds me of my dad and his ability to not show emotion.

anonymous 2007-05-21 17:36:46    

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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 2007-05-26 23:43:26    

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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 2007-06-27 01:44:57    

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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 2007-08-04 16:17:58    

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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 2007-10-17 19:48:45    

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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 2007-11-29 15:20:52    

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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 2007-12-15 12:23:11    

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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 2008-01-15 16:36:50    

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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 2008-02-12 15:00:20    

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It isn't about any of those things. Her dad raped her.

anonymous 2008-03-18 20:58:13    

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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 2008-03-18 21:01:21    

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Watch the music video. It explains the whole thing.

anonymous 2008-03-22 09:26:13    

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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.