Pink – Family Portrait

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  General Comment:This song brings back a lot of memories, because I've been through a similar thing with my family growing up. I'm 16 now and it's still not perfect, but then again, what is perfect?
  It's written from her own perspective as a little girl growing up who had to witness her parent's divorce and almost hatred for one another. She feels as though she's to blame, for not being a perfect daughter, when in fact, it wasn't her fault but the fact that her parents simply weren't meant to be together.

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  General Comment:One of my favorite tracks off of M!ssunderztood.
  
  I included it on my lyric blog.
  
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  General Comment:In the music video for the song, is the little girl supposed to be Pink's kid, or Pink as a kid?

  Flag SadnessBeGoneon April 19, 2010   Link

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  General Comment:This song hits home much further than I'd like it to. It's a beautiful song, don't get me wrong. But I have been through this.. Only I didn't have a brother.. I had two younger sisters.. One was two, the other three.. I was six I think when it happened... my parents split up.. I'm 23 now, but those harsh memories never leave the memory..no matter how bad my memory seems to get. In our pictures, everyone seemed happy.. smiles, all looking fondly at the other.. But in the reality... My father was abusive... he would hit my mom... it got to the point where he broke her jaw.. to be honest, I would have done anything for us to be like we were in our family portraits.. At least then.. we would have been happy and nothing would have made my parents break up the way they did. It hurts quite deeply.. Nothing can change that though.. The past is the past.. But just remembering those hard times, it still brings tears to my eyes..and I'm not the type of girl that cries easily... But this seriously hits home and hard.

  Flag TheBrokenDollon February 23, 2010   Link

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    I can relate

    Flag jenjen26on November 01, 2012  
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  General Comment:I really like this song, and its about the artist's parents having a divorce. But my parents are divorced and really i dont care, or blame myself. And im "younger". i dont know why people act like its there fault or there all upset about it. Its a really awesome song though.

  Flag Simplexityon December 01, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:Aww :( this song makes me cry....... my mom and dad divorced when i was five years old and this explains exactly how i feel/felt. they dont even talk to eachother anymore and they still manage to get on eachothers nerves...... :(

  Flag xXxEmoxLovelyxXxon August 06, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:I relate so much to this song. My parents are not getting divorced, but they are having problems right now. And we are having money problems, so the part saying "you fight about money" really speaks to me. I hear it a good bit. And I'm not close to my parents at all...like we hardly ever talk to each other. So I look at our pictures and we look so happy, but it's not the reality I live in. So to me this song is so amazing beacuase it deals a lot with what I'm living through right now.
  
  Pink is just amazing...she's a great artist and I love her. She's got a lot of talent!

  Flag Dark Angel 35on April 13, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:Can relate to the song..

  Flag Jessaon March 26, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:This song is bloody amazing.
  It's helped me through so much shit, to know i can beat divorcing parents and heated arguements just as Alicia did.
  
  This song, these lyrics are my life. lol, how cliche ?
  Seriously, since i was a little tacker ive had these exact situations,
  every line represents my life and how i feel ,
  i have an older brother, and money, well we have none.
  Running away is things ive done in the past, and listening to arguemnts crying.
  Its my life,
  and i thank her for showing me i can get through this.
  Amazing song,
  amazing lyrics,
  amazing person (:

  Flag Lissa16on February 07, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:This song is very powerful, My parents split up one year after marriage 7 years ago when I was 7. I dint think much, life just got harder for us. I wish we could look like the "family potrait" it just seems so special . I miss having one big family.

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