Broken Girl

I know that this was technically written about girls who were molested at a young age, but I've always interpreted it as being about bullying and depression, because that's how I can relate to it.

'Look what he's done to you, it isn't fair! You're light was bright and new, but he didn't care! He took the heart of a little girl, and made it grow up too fast.'

To me, that's saying that people destroyed a young girl's innocence and childhood, teasing her, treating her like an outcast, bullying her, making her grow up much quicker and became much more solemn and sad and reserved than she should be for her age.

'Now words like innocence, don't mean a thing. You hear the music play, but you can't sing. The pictures in your mind keep you locked up inside your past.'

She has become so withdrawn and solemn she can't really fit in she doesn't feel like she can join in with everyone else. She expects to be pushed out and rejected by others so she does it too herself, and can't even try because she's so scared and hurt. She is depressed and her depression makes it hard for her to even try to participate.

'This is a song for the broken girl. the one pushed aside by the cold cold world."

This is referring to how she was bullied for being different or considered not good enough by the people in her little world.

'You're not the worthless they made you feel'

This is the singer telling her she isn't worthless, she isn't what they called her.

The rest of the chorus is the singer saying how she can recover, how this isn't the end and she will find someone who will love her no matter what, and she can get better.

'Those damaged goods you see in you're reflection, love sees them differently, love sees perfection. A beautiful display of healing on the way tonight.'

The people that care about her, those that are worth her time would think of every little perceived flaw, every quirk or trait that makes her different makes her perfect.

'Let the tears hit the ground, lay all your shattered pieces down. And be amazed by how grace can take a broken girl, and put her back together again.'

This is saying how it's ok to be a bit broken or a lot broken and that she doesn't have to hold herself together alone.

So yeah, that's how I have always interpreted this song. Again, I know it's about abuse and stuff technically but I relate to it by thinking of it like this.