Wednesday, September 19, 2007

we're going country

Posted by Kero at Wednesday, September 19, 2007
In between nursery ryhmes, i tune in to Yahoo Music and recently i heard the duet version of Kelly Clarkson's Because of You. She sang it with an equally powerful voice from the country classic singer Reba McEntire. See the beautiful video below and feel the heart wrenching ballad turn into a country classic.

Oh by the way, Kelly Clarkson wrote the song when she was 16 -- growing up in a dysfunctional family thus the rawness of the emotions involved. I included the lyrics below. I guess we have a lot to learn from other people's mistakes.




"Because Of You"

I will not make the same mistakes that you did
I will not let myself
Cause my heart so much misery
I will not break the way you did,
You fell so hard
I've learned the hard way
To never let it get that far

Because of you
I never stray too far from the sidewalk
Because of you
I learned to play on the safe side so I don't get hurt
Because of you
I find it hard to trust not only me, but everyone around me
Because of you
I am afraid

I lose my way
And it's not too long before you point it out
I cannot cry
Because I know that's weakness in your eyes
I'm forced to fake
A smile, a laugh everyday of my life
My heart can't possibly break
When it wasn't even whole to start with

Because of you
I never stray too far from the sidewalk
Because of you
I learned to play on the safe side so I don't get hurt
Because of you
I find it hard to trust not only me, but everyone around me
Because of you
I am afraid

I watched you die
I heard you cry every night in your sleep
I was so young
You should have known better than to lean on me
You never thought of anyone else
You just saw your pain
And now I cry in the middle of the night
For the same damn thing

Because of you
I never stray too far from the sidewalk
Because of you
I learned to play on the safe side so I don't get hurt
Because of you
I try my hardest just to forget everything
Because of you
I don't know how to let anyone else in
Because of you
I'm ashamed of my life because it's empty
Because of you
I am afraid

Because of you
Because of you

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