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By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   Next 10 Pages Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about Daughters (page 5/ 12) ------ performed by John Mayer misinterpreted! | Reviewer: jimi makinista | 1/7/08 "On behalf of every man looking out for every girl You are the god and the weight of her world" This means the singer, in behalf of everyman loving a girl, makes a statement for the PARENTS that THEY (the parents) are "the god and the weight of her world" and NOT the boys loving the girls. It doesn't end after the 3rd verse | Reviewer: Anonymous | 12/8/07 Taken as a whole, the song is sexist. Yes, the verses and the chorus give a lovely message, one that perhaps a lot of people need to hear. But the fact is that the song doesn't end after the third verse. "Boys, you can break You find out how much they can take Boys will be strong And boys soldier on But boys would be gone without warmth from A woman's good, good heart" I tell you what, as a father of both a son and a daughter, it most certainly is not OK to "break" your boys. Boys can be just as damaged as girls by a bad relationship with their parents. A girl who sucks up the abuse and winds up unable to connect as a result is a tragedy, but the boy in the same situation is just "soldiering on?" "On behalf of every man looking out for every girl You are the god and the weight of her world" You know, I could buy this if the lyrics were still addressing fathers, since parents do occupy such a central role in their children;s life that calling them "the god and the weight of her world," isn't such a stretch. But these words are addressing "every man looking out for every girl." The implication is that every girl needs to be protected by a man, and in fact needs it so desperately that the man who protects her becomes her god. I hope I can do better for <i>both</i> my children than this song would have me. to: Did he write it? | Reviewer: bob | 11/19/07 "I think this is one of his more meaningful, as in touching, songs in comparison to his latest album which is sort of bitter/non-caring. I really don't care for it, especially the song Waiting on the World to Change. If everyone waited for the world to change nothing would change. But this one makes me think that he did care once upon a time. That's if he wrote it." Waiting on the World to change isn't supposed to be taking literally. He is making a point by saying that everyone is waiting on the world to change, and nothing is getting done. The song is basically highlighting that we aren't doing anything by "waiting on the world to change", and that we should get off our asses and do something. Thats the genius of the song. And basically all his songs are genius, like this one (Daughters). And he also wrote basically all of them :) True. | Reviewer: Osvaldo | 11/16/07 I have heard this song before but, suddenly it all came to me, and it makes perfect sense, girls and women in general are shape by previous experiences, (including us guys aswell), as he puts it "maybe it has nothing to do with me" some girls are confused and filled with emotion and sometimes dont know how to act when showered with love, do to "bad" passed experience and create this "wall" hence "...where the walls are continually changed." To avoid being hurt again. Sad but true therefore as he says "On behalf of every man looking out for every girl You are the god and the weight of her world." Girls are like most flowers, beautiful and bright but very so delicate. Read the first three verses without the chorus | Reviewer: Seatown | 11/14/07 I know a girl She puts the color inside of my world but she's just like a maze Where all of the walls all continually change -- He's head over heels in love with a woman who can't/won't love him back because she's troubled. He wants to understand her but it's difficult to break through. And I've done all I can To stand on her steps with my heart in my hand Now I'm starting to see Maybe it’s got nothing to do with me -- He has tried desperately to let her know that he loves her and won't leave her, but she won't lay down her defenses...and now he's come to the conclusion that because her father left she can't trust men. Ooh, you see that skin? It's the same she's been standing in Since the day she saw him walking away Now she's left cleaning up the mess he made -- She's stuck in that day, maybe a dozen years ago, when her father left. So much anger, so much pain...he left her in shambles and she's still picking up the pieces. THAT, folks, is what this song is about. John Mayer is painting a picture that is all too common in today's world. The rest of the song may take some liberties with sexist overtones, but it is basically a call to arms for all parents to love their children so they don't grow up callous and alone like the woman he loves. If anyone has a problem with that overall message, they need to re-examine their priorities. calming and sad | Reviewer: MAria | 11/1/07 when i fist listened to this song i wasn't really listening to the daughters part and felt it was just to all women, not only with their fathers, but also with other men. durr | Reviewer: dude | 10/26/07 uhh the chick two down from me- daughters is on a different cd than waiting on the world to change. just saying Woah. | Reviewer: Issy | 10/9/07 This song is just amazing...not only does it soung great but its so true. I always start crying when he says: "On behalf of every man looking out for every girl You are the god and the weight of her world" I love love love it! so beautiful! Did he write it? | Reviewer: Anonymous | 10/1/07 It's a beautiful song for sure. I know a lot girls, myself included, who grew up without a dad. We were five sisters and three brothers. My brothers are all married with kids whereas all of us sisters are single besides one that got married when she was close to 30. I really think it has something to do with not having a dad. He left when we were young. It's sad but I think we've all put up walls towards men. I think this is one of his more meaningful, as in touching, songs in comparison to his latest album which is sort of bitter/non-caring. I really don't care for it, especially the song Waiting on the World to Change. If everyone waited for the world to change nothing would change. But this one makes me think that he did care once upon a time. That's if he wrote it. truth has a certain way about it | Reviewer: Stephanie G | 9/18/07 The popularity of this song suggests we as a public are starved for things spiritual - The lyrics show a sensitivity for damage done by fathers as is similar to that done by others, usually but not always men. Sexual abuse creates this condition of "walls that continually change," preventing true intimacy in later relationships. So can abandonment and neglect. Thanks to John Mayer for a wake up call that I hope we understand before we've come to see it firsthand in our own daughters. Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   Next 10 Pages