Song of the Week (9 - 15 August 2010 )

I'M OK
performed by : Christina Aguilera

'I'm Ok' layaknya potongan kecil yang goyah dari suatu kehidupan yangpenuh ironi. Disuguhkan dengan penuh aura emosional nan rapuh, lagu ini menceritakan kekerasan rumah tangga dari sudut pandang sang anak. Dari lagu ini kita mendapat pembelajaran bahwa luka yang ditorehkan sedari dini akan terus membekas dan terasa sakit ...

Lirik:

Once upon a time there was a girl
In her early years she had to learn
How to grow up living in a war that she called
home
Never know just where to turn for shelter from
the storm
Hurt me to see the pain across my mother's face
Everytime my father's fist would put her in her
place
Hearing all the yelling I would cry up in my room
Hoping it would be over soon

Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the
same
And I still remember how you kept me so afraid
Strength is my mother for all the love she gave
Every morning that I wake I look back to
yesterday
And I'm OK

I often wonder why I carry all this guilt
When it's you that helped me put up all these
walls I've built
Shadows stir at night through a crack in the door
The echo of a broken child screaming "please no
more"
Daddy, don't you understand the damage you have
done
To you it's just a memory, but for me it still
lives on

Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the
same
And I still remember how you kept me so, so
afraid
Strength is my mother for all the love she gave
Every morning that I wake I look back to
yesterday

It's not so easy to forget
All the lines you left along her neck
When I was thrown against cold stairs
And every day I'm afraid to come home
In fear of what I might see there

Bruises fade father but the pain remains the same
And I still remember how you kept me so afraid
Strength is my mother for all the love she gave
Every morning that I wake I look back to
yesterday
And I'm OK
I'm OK