"Father Daughter Dance", also referred to as "Father Daughter",[1] is a song by Kesha from her fourth studio album, High Road. It serves as the fourteenth track from the album.
Background[]
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Kesha briefly talked about the background of the song:
| “ | The song "Father Daughter" was just me contemplating what life would be like if I'd had a father. So there's wacky shit and moments that are super-introspective. | ” |
| “ | I never set out to write a song about the fact that I grew up without a father. I was just with people I really am very, very comfortable around and who know me really well and the song just kind of started flowing out of my mouth. I opened some sort of unconscious floodgates; I had no idea I had all these feelings about the subject. It feels so vulnerable and embarrassing when you're writing a song like that, because there's shame, there's guilt, there's sadness, there's resentment—so many questions that are in the back of your mind when you have a situation in the way I grew up in. I didn't intend to put it on the record, and then I played it for a couple of people and they all insisted that being a strong woman doesn't mean you always have to be strong. I don't want to take away from the way my mom raised me, because I had such respect for single parents and women that decide to have children on their own or without a man. | ” |
On a Reddit AMA she also talked about the song, saying it was an "incredibly difficult song to write" and that she's nervous for people to hear it but also excited.
Lyrics[]
Oh I wish my heart wasn't broken from the start
I never stood a fighting chance
In all my days, from my cradle to my grave
I'll never have a father-daughter dance
It was always drama
I'm sorry I'm always so anxious and numb
Just sorry I'm fucked up
I really just don't know how to love, how to trust
I try but when I talk about him
I should probably cry but
He's nothing, he's no one, a stranger
Oh I wish my heart wasn't broken from the start
I never stood a fighting chance
In all my days, from my cradle to my grave
I'll never have a father-daughter dance
I'm never alone
But, God, I'm so lonely
I fuck with my phone
Hoping it'll help me with my anxiety
But it don't
I don't even know if I wanna have kids
I don't wanna fuck 'em up the way he did
Sometimes I wonder, if I'd had a dad
Would he had protected me
From all the bad shit, the bad men?
Would I even be the same person?
Somebody to help with the flat tire
Somebody to walk me down the aisle
Somebody to help with the flat tire
Somebody to walk me down the aisle
The worst part of this is I'm not even sad
How do I miss something I never had?
Oh I wish my heart wasn't broken from the start
I never really stood a fighting chance
In all my days, from my cradle to my grave
I'll never have a father-daughter dance
Yet everyone who has pain don't turn to ice
I'm sure that at the time you tried your best
But all of this has made me who I am
Without that father-daughter dance
Videos[]
Credits[]
| Produced by | Drew Pearson |
| Strings by | Isaiah Gage |
| Engineered by | Drew Pearson at Purple Dinosaur Matt Dyson at The Village Studios, Los Angeles, CA Josh Deguzman |
| Assisted by | Hector Vega |
| Mastered by | Dale Becker |
| Mix engineered by | Jon Castelli |
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