This song means a lot to me because I have been bullied numerous times, at school and at home. This song is saying, that you change yourself so much to accommodate the thoughts and feelings of others that you don't realize what truly matters, which is your thought and feelings. It doesn't matter what they think, because they're always gonna think you could look better or you need to buy this makeup or those clothes, or that you need to be more like them. The problem with that is that is takes away from who you are, and what you are. This song explains that to be you, you don't need fancy clothes, or to pile on makeup or to act differently, you just need to be you. Be confident about who you are, and if they don't accept you, that's their loss because you are an amazing human being with awesome individuality and an amazing personality. Don't change you for them. In fact, don't change at all, because you are perfect, and this song expresses that you don't have to try to fit in, you don't have to try to be some one else. You just have to get up when they knock you down, and be who you ware, not who they want you to be.

This song to me means so much because my parents are going through a divorce, and they are arguing all time. I always feel like I have to take sides, so for me, this song is saying, I would do anything for you, I'll hold my breath, I'll bite my tongue, I'll hold the weight of the worlds. But I can only take so much before I've had enough and I can't take it anymore. Until I feel like giving up. I listen to this song and think, if only my parents knew that this song describes exactly how I feel, they would maybe take my feelings into consideration. They think that my mind is resilient and that I'll just think everything is okay, but in truth I'm only human. I bleed when I fall down, meaning that it hurts them argue. It hurts to go through this. I crash and I break down, meaning that I do give up when I've had enough. You build me up an then I fall apart, meaning that they make me feel like everything's gonna be alright, then they have a fight, and I just crashed burn, I give up and I can't take it anymore. I thank Christina Perri for understanding so many people in this world, including me, a 13 year old girl in the middle of her parents' divorce.