Piece by Piece

The song Piece by Piece by Kelly Clarkson has become a very moving and inspirational song in every aspect. There are so many great lyrics to this song that touches so many people that are out there. The reason behind creating this song was to tell her story in a way. Throughout the song it tells her story. As a child her father left her and her family in the past without even thinking about it. This made it difficult for her to trust guys, but as the song goes on it explains how her current husband has helped her gain more trust in men and he restored her faith in men.

"And all I remember is your back, walking towards the airport, leaving us all in your past. I traveled 1500 miles to see you, begged you to want me but you didn't want to."

This is the first verse of the song. It is important because it shows how she tried to go to her father, but he didn't want anything to do with her no matter how hard she tried to get him back her life.

“But piece by piece by piece you collected me, up off the ground but you abandoned things, and piece by piece you filled the holes that you burned in me at six years old. And no, he never walks away, he never asks for money, he takes care of me, he loves me. Piece by piece he restored my faith that a man can be kind and a father could stay.”

The second verse of the song starts to talk about how her husband has helped her gain more trust in men. In this verse she also tells how young she was when her father left her and her family. “You filled the holes that you burned in me at six years old”. As a little six year old and having your father walk out without wanting anything to do with you is really hard on everyone.

“And all of your words fall flat, I made something of myself and now you wanna come back. But your love isn’t free, it has to be earned. Back then I didn’t have anything you needed so I was worthless”.

This verse of the song is kind of explaining her feelings towards her father, and telling how she sees everything. She thinks that she has to have something to give to her father in order to have her father love her, because that is the way it seems to her, because as a child he left her, and came back when she made something great out of her life.

“Piece by piece I fell far from the tree, I would never leave her like you left me, she will never have to wonder her worth because unlike you I’m gonna put her first.”

          This verse of the song is Kelly singing about her own child and family, she is saying how she will never leave her child because she doesn’t want her child to feel the way she felt when she was little when her father left her.