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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 4/ 13) ------ performed by John Mayer Otto | Reviewer: Anonymous | 6/6/08 Somewhere else in these reviews there is someone who refers to Borderline Personality Disorder ... I got out of a relationship with a Borderline woman. She was everything to me ... as in the song, "she was was my world". Her disorder left her a shattered and broken soul. I actually cried everyday for her, and for the love she couldn't see me give her. I eventually had to see a psychologist over the pain I felt, and the first assessment out of his mouth was "it’s got nothing to do with you" ... as though he had heard the song, but our meeting predated the song. I listened to the song a few times, but I can't anymore. The memories of the pain and sorrow I felt are too deep. Borderline is a terrible condition, and is more common than bipolar disorder and schizophrenia combined. Borderline probably account for 85% of all 'crazy girlfriend' experiences, much drug addiction, alcoholism, and vicious divorces. These people are not jerks, they are deeply ill and the destroy lives, their own and those who touch them. Love them, but only from afar ... and for god's sake, fathers and mothers, be good to your daughters ... please. June 5, 2008 makes me ache | Reviewer: aunt | 4/20/08 all i see is my niece's face when i hear this beautiful song. Her father left her and her mother for another woman, after years of excessive adultry and drinking. Now she is cleaning up the mess he made. i love my niece and i can only hope she doesn't "love like he does." wut i think | Reviewer: unknown | 3/31/08 its about a guy (John Mayer) who becomes infatuated with a girl and then goes on to try to win her heart. he tries his best but still gets rejected. "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 tries telling her how much he likes her, maybe even tries making her to open up to him. But no matter how hard he tries, she keeps her doors closed. He wonders why. Then he realizes its got nothing to do with him. The problem is within her. She does not know how to open up, or maybe too scared to love/take risks. And because the next words say "Fathers be good to your daughters", i think its because something traumatic happened to her involving her dad. Perhaps he left her for another woman, like when he sings "Since the day she saw him walking away Now she's left cleaning up the mess he made" it draws a picture of a dad leaving his family with another woman. And now that everyones hurt, the daughter is left alone fending for herself or is left mending their broken family. This is true with girls who do not have a father figure. Because men, represented by their dads, did not treat them well, they become cautious, overprotective and distant from men in general. They tend to believe that all men are like their dads. When John Mayer says "On behalf of every man looking out for every girl You are the god and the weight of her world" its true that every dad becomes the "god" of that girl. As much as it is gratification to the dad, it is also a responsibility, which some dads disregards. Daughters - Borderline Personality | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/20/08 I think this is about a relationship that is ending because the girl suffers from Borderline Personality disorder brought upon by a father's abandonment and possible mother issues as well. The invalidating environment growing combined with biological factors create an emotional stability described in the beginning of the song and that many people with Borderline Personality disorder experience. The fear of real or imagined abandoment combined with emotional instability.... Just my two cents... I just got out of a relationship like that and have done a lot of research... Daughters | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/20/08 I think this is about a relationship that is ending because the girl suffers from Borderline Personality disorder brought upon by a father's abandonment and possible mother issues as well. The invalidating environment growing combined with biological factors create an emotional stability described in the beginning of the song and that many people with Borderline Personality disorder experience. The fear of real or imagined abandoment combined with emotional instability.... Just my two cents... I just got out of a relationship like that and have done a lot of research... love | Reviewer: esther | 3/18/08 i love this song it touches me, its one of my favorite songs like i said. If it wasn't for this song I would be always mad this relaxes me i adore these lyrics it just so pleasent to read them all the time. I also love jonh mayer some people think this song is really good. I just really love this song i always listen to it all the time . Thanks John Mayer I love these lyrics. My View | Reviewer: Cilla | 3/18/08 Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and I thought I'd take a moment to share mine. I have to say I can personally relate to how Seatown explains this song. Because what I have been through in my own life I see this song as a father/daughter relationship. "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" To me this is referring to a Father walking out of his daughters life, which is an issue that is all too common nowadays. I can say from my own experience that when my father left me at such a young age I was hurt because he literally left me a my mom in such mess. "On behalf of every man looking out for every girl You are the god and the weight of her world" Here I think he is just showing us that a Father or "Father figure" is something that is very important in a girls life (any childs life). And before I go and start referring to my whole life could be modeled by this song, I'll stop and leave everyone else to their own thoughts. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/8/08 I don't believe that there is any right or wrong way to take this song. There can be many different readings on this song (and any other piece of literature), it just depends on which reading you apply. For example, a feminist reading can say that this song is suggesting that girlswomen NEED to be protected by boys/men. But personally, I find the song comforting and relaxing to listen to. In my opinion, John Mayer did a dam fine job with this song, and with his other songs. Ode to John Mayor | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/28/08 so many ppl have interpretted this song, mayor should just post something saying wat he was trying to get across, i dont have time write all my opinions on the song, but i could say that it is truly brillant, heartfelt, and im sure makes every listener feel comforted and warm inside, and for that i thank u John Mayor Clarity? | Reviewer: Anonymous | 1/17/08 "'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." Well, although it says "god", it also says, "the weight of her world". I think it means men affect women in positive and negative ways. I don't think Mayer is trying to imply that every girl needs a man to worship as a god. I believe he's trying to highlight the commonly underestimated power men have to hurt a girl's feelings when in any type of relationship. Father/son. Girlfriend/boyfriend. Husband/wife. Friend/friend. Usually, although not always, the closer the man is to the woman, the more they can hurt the woman. But it's certainly reciprocal to the way a woman can hurt a man. Anyways, I'm just trying to give this song a more positive light because I do have a bias of liking this song. 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