I Remember Me- Jennifer Hudson

I remember me, starting at myself
See these same two eyes, see these same two feet
I remember you, You who I used to be
You still look the same, but you don't hurt like me
Look at my reflection, somewhere my affection
Disappeared,isn't here, nothing left to say
Memories they fading, but I'm the one who makes them
But i keep the love close to enough to say

What if this life is all that we're given
We just can't stop living, scared of what we see
Cuz in this world, anything can hurt you
They push you, then forget you
Stole my history

But I remember me, I remember me
It don't matter where I go, what I'm told, now you know
I remember me, I remember me
Even if I say goodbye, start to cry, do or die
I remember me

I tell you what my name is
And ain't nothing gon' change it
Cuz what you are is what you are
Even if your memory's flawed
I go to places, trying to find familiar faces
They don't show, but I still know
They don't have to look for me
I dream about, I dream about
The place where all the broken pieces fit together

Cuz in this world, anything can hurt you
They push you, then forget you
And stole my history

But I remember me, I remember me
It don't matter where I go, what I'm told, now you know
I remember me, I remember me
Even if I say goodbye, start to cry, do or die
I remember me

Now all that's left of these hands, this breathe
I've said goodbye to so many things that tears wont cry
And I take this pain, This joy, and rain
Cuz all that matters now is
In this life anything can hurt you
Push you, then forget you
Erase your history

But I remember me, I remember me
It don't matter where I go, what I'm told, now you know
I remember me, I remember me
Even if I say goodbye, start to cry, do or die
I remember me

I remember me, oh woah
I remember me, I tell you what my name
I tell you what me name is
Do or die


   "I Remember Me", is a song about someone telling themselves' that they remember the person they used to be, the person that was scared and insecure, the person that they are proud to say they no longer are.

   The narrator is in first person but written in a different view point, so Hudson is actually writing to herself about herself. Anytime she has a reoccurring symptom of the old person she used to be she tells herself, " I remember me".  Hudson didn't like the person she was and would not like to return to her old habits.

    The repetition of the phrase, "I remember me", Hudson constantly reminds herself that she can now remember where she used to be and how far she has made it to where her negative thoughts, "stole my thoughts".


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