Christina Aguilera
I’m OK lyrics
- Language
- English
- Level
- Intermediate
- Released
- 2002
- Genre
- Pop
- Length
- 5:19
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
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
Every morning that I wake, I look back to 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?
To 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 to yesterday
It's not so easy to forget
All the marks you left along her neck
When I was thrown against cold stairs
And every day, I'm afraid to come home
In fear of what I might see next
Bruises fade, Father, but the pain remains the same (Same)
And I still remember how you kept me so afraid
Strength is my mother for all the love you gave
Every morning that I wake, I look back to yesterday
And I'm OK
I'm OK
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Key vocabulary
- often
- many timesA1
- place
- specific locationA1
- against
- opposed toA2
- along
- moving besideA2
- fear
- unpleasant worryA2
- memory
- ability to rememberA2
- neck
- part connecting head and bodyA2
- stairs
- steps to go up/downA2
- please
- kind request wordA1
- put
- place somethingA1
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About this song
Christina Aguilera is an American pop, R&B, and hip-hop vocalist known for a four-octave range and chart-topping hits such as “Genie in a Bottle,” “What a Girl Wants,” and “Fighter.” She rose from early teen television to mainstream stardom, later shifting her style across albums like Stripped, Liberation, and the single “Fall In Line.”