DV Awareness Song

[xtremeroswellia]

The song we're using this year at our annual candlelight ceremony is "I'm Ok" by Christina Aguilera. Lyrics are behind the cut.



I'm OK
Written by Christina Aguilera, Linda Perry

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 knew just where to turn for shelter from the storm

It hurt me to see the pain across my mother's face
Every time 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
And every morning that I wake
I look back at 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
For 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 at yesterday

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

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 you gave
And every morning that I wake
I look back at yesterday
And I'm OK

I'm OK

Comments

[abandonedworld.livejournal.com]

:'(

[muses-circle.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, Angie! That left shivers up my spine and seriously wanting to cry! :'(

[the-darkeris.livejournal.com]

Really sad and moving, just thinking about all the women, that are suffering this kind of violence all over the world, chills my blood.

[tapati.livejournal.com]

Check out "His Hands" by Janis Ian on her Breaking Silence cd. I'd post lyrics but it appears that she requested they not be posted online (from what it says in all the links I found).