The song is about how people only see one side of the singer based on her public persona on television but don't truly know her or understand her life experiences. The lyrics repeat "you saw me on television" to emphasize that no one really knows her beyond what they see in the media. She suggests people judge her without understanding her past or the type of songs she feels compelled to sing. The singer presents herself as strong and unwilling to change herself for other people's opinions.

1. "Half Of Me"
You saw me on the television, setting fire to all the buildings
Yeah I guess you saw me stealing, but you've no idea what I've been needin'
Talk about when we were children, not the kind of kid that you believe in The first verse of her song talks
about her life and how she is only
You saw me on the television, saw me on the television
seen television and is judged
without people actually knowing
But that's just the half of it, yeah you saw the half of it
her. “Saw me on a television” is
This is the life I live, and that's just the half of it.
repeated the most on front of every
verse of the song. This suggests
that no one’s knows everyone only
knows her famous life that they see
Saw me on the television, hanging out my dirty linen
on television.
You're entitled to your own opinion
Sit and shake your head at my decision
I guess the kind of songs that I've been singing
Make it seem as if I'm always winning
But you saw me on a television
Yeah you saw me on a television
But that's just the half of it
In this verse she talks
about how people are
entitled to their own
opinions. “Sit and shake
your head at my decision”
this implies that her fans
are just disliking her
decisions in her life.
You saw the half of it
This is the life I live
And that's just the half of it
Oh you know me I'm the life of the party
Beautiful people surround me
Everybody falling in love
Oh you know me, everybody knows that I'm crazy
In this verse she talks about her
personality that the world sees. This
suggests that everyone just believes
everything they see instead of actually
knowing her.

2. Sticks and stones they never break me
And I'm the type that don't give a fuck
And that's just the half of it
This part shows that she don’t
actually care of people think bad
of her and that she just going to
be herself. “Sticks and stones
they never break me.” This
suggests that she is a very strong
person and that she can take
everycritismand it would be hard
to break her.
You saw the half of it
Yeah this is the life I live
And that's just the half of it
Yeah you saw the half of it
And this is the life I live
You saw the half of it
Only the half of it
Eh, oh, no
You saw me on the television.
Saw me on the television.
In these last few
verses she repeats
herself, which makes
the lyric stand out
more and really get
the message across.