Lyric discussion by twostorywindow 

im sure most people who would look up these lyrics have seen the music video.. and it shows the song perfectly.. if you haven't seen it- it is about abuse. the song is written as the daughter of an abusive father. and her mother ends up killing both herself and her husband to end the abuse.

@twostorywindow Well, one would think that the woman dies, ("sent me to the county home") but according to a statement by Martina McBride, the woman doesn't die. But she didn't write the song. Maybe she wants to protect her image. But she didn't write the song. It was written by Gretchen Peters.

@twostorywindow Martina McBride has been quoted as saying, in public, that the woman didn't (doesn't) die in the fire/flames. But even if she said that, she wasn't the one who wrote the song, although she's sung it numerous times. We'll have to ask Gretchen Peters, who wrote the song and who said the song "came from out of the blue." She said this in an interview done by Martina McBride.

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