Be Ok - Ingrid Michaelson

The first stanza of the song is very repetitive which gives it much more of an impact. She is saying that she wants to feel better and just simply get through her day. She wants it to be easier than what she has been dealing with in the days before. In the next stanza she is again repetitive with her words. She wants to feel happiness or joy or any positive emotion other than what she has been feeling. Third stanza is where she gets deeper. She doesn't express it or show it to outsiders, but she has been hurt a lot and on the inside is broken. She wants others to stop trying to fix her because she knows she is just going to have to live with it. So far this sounds like every guy she has been with breaks her heart and she is starting to live in constant sadness. She is asking anyone who will listen, probably God, if she can just feel better for one day, and forget about everything. In the fourth stanza i think she is trying to get across that she wants and needs a sure thing in her life. She has lost trust and hope in finding love. She doesn't want a for sure man she just wants to be assured that for one day, she can be happy. Come 5th stanza she ultimately just wants to embrace what she is because she doesn't trust anyone with her fragile heart. She wants it in the comfort of her own arms (metaphorically speaking). Come the last stanza is repeats "Know that maybe I will be ok" which sounds a lot more positive than the rest of the song, showing that she is somewhat hopeful that maybe she actually will be ok.