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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 9/ 12) ------ performed by John Mayer A real tearjerker | Reviewer: Kay | 10/8/06 I heard this over the internet, and had to stop what I was doing. I don't see any sexism in the lyrics. I'm 19 years old, and my Father just disapeared when I was ten, I knew he was alive, he just didn't want to be around or have contact, and I wish he could listen to this song. I'm in a relationship, and I am a bad girlfriend, I'm clingy, for the pure fact I'm scared my partner will just leave, and It took him to tell me it was because I compared him to my Father. Fathers do have a huge influence on their daughters lives, more so than their sons. I know I definately was influenced, and I wish he could hear this song, a few lyrics really made me shiver: "you see that skin, its the same shes been standing in, since the day she saw him walking away" definately reflects on me as a person, even though I am a lot older, I'm still the same ten year old girl who watched my daddy leave, not knowing he wasn't coming home. "On behalf of every man looking out for every girl You are the god and the weight of her world" Again, he was my Father, I did see him as my god, I think to truely appreciate this song, you have to have gone through the experiences which he has written. And of course, the opening lyrics: "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 And I've done all I can To stand on her steps with my heart in my hands Now I'm starting to see Maybe it’s got nothing to do with me" That applies to my Partner, who has said this is how he's felt a big percentage of the time. So please, before you give this song a bad review, really listen, and think about it, maybe from your point of view, it is merely sexism, saying that a woman is just there for sex, and being a mother, but think about women like me, who feel exactly that way, and appreciate how truely lucky you are that you have no sentimental link with this song. Thanks for reading :) daughters- one of my favorites | Reviewer: Anonymous | 6/27/06 I have been crazy about john mayer ever since i heard him sing a few years ago. When I first heard daughters, I immediately fell in love with that song. It is just amazing and those of you who think it is sexist, listen to it again, think about your dads, or your daughters. It will change your perspective of things. Awesome | Reviewer: Anonymous | 5/6/06 This song makes me cry everytime I hear it and the same with my brother. We are both single and looking for a hot babe but we have bad luck with it. Otherwise, John Mayer's song is awesome! I beg your pardon.... | Reviewer: Dave | 4/20/06 "On behalf of every man looking out for every girl...." hit me like a ton of bricks. To rebutt an earlier post (I agree, 3-9-06) I am far more to my daughters that I had ever imagined I could be to anyone. Yes, I have faults. Yes, I have been angry with them before, but this song puts into words what I have been trying to say for years. I protect them when they are young and helpless against everyday life's trials and tribulations. I help them as they grow older and start to learn to fly as women, helping them be independent young ladies. I praise them when they make me proud, but I also teach them that mine is not the only opinion in the world and that they must live their lives for themselves. NO...I do not want them to feel imprisoned, nor do I want them to have an overbearing father. I want for them, in their lives, to have success and joy and never be "held down" by another "man's" opinion. This song is more about FAMILY and what it should be, especially spot-lighting the relationship between a father and daughter. Father's are meant to be role-models and for that much, mother's should be more so. In the family environment, children can't help but hold parents in a certain elevated place until they grow up to a point to see the parent for what they really are, good or bad. The song makes me as a father want to watch more closely the things I say, the things I do and how I treat them as people. If you think it's sexist, grow up and read between the lines! Face it, children learn from how they are treated by parents and parents have a responsibility to them in that case! Maybe, we all should feel sorry for the family life and the relationship "I agree" had with their father. Sounds like an ugly one. Amazing Lyrics | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/18/06 Yes, I really loved the song the moment I heard it! It offers deep psychological insight - the stuff of many books brought together as a loving statement. It doesn't say 'all men are bad' or 'all women have been abused' - but unfortunately too many have had problems stemming at least partly from early childhood. And 'big people' have too often forgotten how to children everything they do or say is magnified and a 'holy truth'. I stem from a home where my Dad would occasionally lose his temper and be violent to us kids (me and my sister), and said 'who would want you anyway?' when I said not every woman needed a man (at 12 - of course he denies it now). While Mom was high-strung and hyper-critical, which together with work stress made Dad even more likely to lash out at the kids. As a result, I've had little trust in men and poor opinion of my self-worth. My parents are excellent people, but I do wish they heard this song when I was little. great song | Reviewer: neko-chan | 3/11/06 i luv this song! i think it's john mayor's greatest. i also luv his voice. I agree | Reviewer: Anonymous | 3/9/06 This song is very sexist. It implies that fathers do not treat their daughters the same as their sons, as if daughters were second class. How old are the people in here? It says "On behalf of every man looking out for every girl You are the god and the weight of her world" Im sorry but no guy is my god! Nor is the weight of my world! I do not sit around thinking of how great it is that(since I am obviously completely helpless according to this song) men protect me. Men and women both have to "clean"(excellent word choice, stereotyping at its best) up the messes of a relationship gone wrong. Oh, and, by the way, every woman has a good heart too. There are no such thing as prisons for women! No way! Women are gentle, men are strong, men do bad things, not women. I cannot believe that you people do not see the obvious sexism in this. Are you brainwashed??! In a lift in Vegas | Reviewer: Richard Carpenter | 1/24/06 I was in Vegas last year for an IBM conference, and I heard this amazing song in the lift at the Mirage. Then the next day I heard it again, and then at every Mall, Hotel, airport, I heard it again. When I got back to the UK....I couldn't download it anywhere. Anyhow, managed to download it after several months, and my wife cried. Have just ordered his entire CD back catalogue - so here's hoping for more brilliance! Daughters by John Mayer | Reviewer: Henry | 10/20/05 I knew John Mayer was a great artist the first time I heard him sing and play, but he has really hit a cord with me in this song. I love my daughter, I have a 3 year old, and to hear here scream daddy when i come home is the greatest thing ive ever felt, i cried when she was born, and Im a former Marine, I dont cry lol. I must say, I cried when i listened to this song with the lyrics, its a very powerful song. Coldplay | Reviewer: Avlan | 7/14/05 Great song, indeed as most say, emotionally loaded, one of those songs which makes you wonder if your ears are directly connected to your heart. Only one little thing: The first time I heard the first seconds of that intro I was certain it was a Coldplay-song who's title escapes me, but its on their first album "parachutes". For the ppl who like this song and dont have Coldplays first, you might wanna try it, I still think its their best (dont be fooled by more recent Coldplay-music) Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10   Next 10 Pages