Skip to content
Menu
Armstrong Family Circus
  • Blog
  • Hello friend.
Armstrong Family Circus

John Mayer’s got it right…

Posted on October 22, 2005December 6, 2019 by Sonya Armstrong

Here are the lyrics to a song written and sung by John Mayer. He’s one of my new favorite singers and his album, “Heavier Things” has such beautiful truth to it; read below and have a listen sometime.

This song has personal meaning to me. Boy do I know what happens when your mother and father have not been good, and have not even tried to right the many wrongs they continued to make. It’s taken a lot of work sifting through the mess they made of my life, but I’m in a good place now and my family (kids and husband) resemble nothing of what was so common and familiar to me as a girl and young woman. Thank God we can heal from troubled pasts. It takes time, but it can happen and does happen.

John Mayer: Daughters

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

Fathers, be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers, be good to your daughters too

Oh, you see that skin?
It?s the same she?s been standin’ in
Since the day she saw him walking away
Now she’s left
Cleanin’ up the mess he made

So fathers, be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers, be good to your daughters too

Boys, you can break
You’ll 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

Oh behalf of every man
Looking out for every girl
You are the god and the weight of her world

So fathers, be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers, be good to your daughters too

So mothers, be good to your daughters too
So mothers, be good to your daughters too

Blog Posts

  • I like to stuff things down my pants March 28, 2006
  • Say a little prayer January 18, 2006
  • Lost: Recap (S2,E11) January 15, 2006
  • Why? What do you do on your Friday nights? January 14, 2006
  • Challenge Made, Challenge Met January 14, 2006

Sections

  • Distractions (11)
  • Kid Quotes (5)
  • Life Stuff (48)
  • Lost (11)
  • Parenting (14)
  • Photography (9)
  • Politics (6)
  • Random (60)
  • Recaps (12)
  • Religion (18)
  • Reviews (8)
  • Short (24)
  • Thoughts (114)

Recent Posts

  • I like to stuff things down my pants March 28, 2006
  • Say a little prayer January 18, 2006
  • Lost: Recap (S2,E11) January 15, 2006
  • Why? What do you do on your Friday nights? January 14, 2006
  • Challenge Made, Challenge Met January 14, 2006
  • Time’s tide will smother you January 13, 2006
  • Lost: Recap (S2, E10) January 11, 2006
  • WCPO, You are DEAD to me. January 11, 2006
  • Airing of the grievances January 11, 2006
  • Drowning in my Thoughts January 10, 2006
©2023 Armstrong Family Circus | Powered by WordPress & Superb Themes