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Piece by Piece

Song · 2015 · Kelly Clarkson. Album: Piece by Piece

for the ones building the family they never had 🧩

Who it's for

Kelly Clarkson writes to the father who neglected his family, contrasting him with a partner who loves her and their daughter without condition.

Wounded by a parent's neglect→Restored faith in love and family

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What it is

"Piece by Piece" is the title track of Kelly Clarkson's seventh studio album, Piece by Piece (2015), co-written with producer Greg Kurstin. It is addressed to her father and describes him leaving the family when she was six, set against the steady love her then-husband gave her and their daughter.

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Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina, Part 1, Chapter 1 (tr. Constance Garnett)

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