Album: Zooropa (1993)

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• You're a precious stone
  You're out on your own
  You know everyone in the world
  But you feel alone
  Daddy won't let you weep
  Daddy won't let you ache
  Daddy gives you as much as you can take
  A-ha sha-la, a-ha sha-la
  Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car
  
  A little uptight
  You're a baby's fist
  Butterfly kisses up and down your wrist
  When you see daddy coming
  You're licking your lip
  Nails bitten down to the quick
  A-ha sha-la, a-ha sha-la
  Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car
  Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car
  
  You've got a head full of traffic
  You're a siren's song
  You cry for mama
  And daddy's right along
  He gives you the keys to a flamin' car
  Daddy's with you wherever you are
  Daddy's a comfort
  Daddy's your best friend
  Daddy'll hold your hand right up to the end
  A-ha sha-la, a-ha sha-la
  Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car
  Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car
  
  Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday's
  Alright Writer/s: ADAM CLAYTON, DAVE EVANS, LARRY MULLEN, PAUL HEWSON
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 6

• Greg from Harrington Park, NjI had read where Bono stated in Rolling Stone that it is about God saving us from evils in the world - Heroin is one of the evils represented in the lyrics.
• Brendan from Dublin, Irelandi think its about depression. the daddy is a metaphor for depression ''daddy gives you as much as you can take'' or ''daddy gives you keys to a flaming car'' meaning your going on a journey to hell,flaming meaning the fiery depths of hell. daddy really is a metaphor for your mind ''daddy'll hold your hand right up to the end'' meaning your sanity and mind is with you til death and the butterfly kisses line represents wrist slitting,if you look at a butterfly's body its a straight line,so like the lines on your wrists from slitting,i think that daddys gonna pay for your crashed car means daddy or depression will explain why you crashed your car,daddy can represent alot such as suicide sanity etc,i think all the interpretations are really intelligent and this is just mine,the daddys girl one did make sense because at that time i believe U2 were hanging out with alot of supermodels and adam clayton was dating naomi campbell
• Rob from Los Angeles, CaI heard Bono say that this was the ultimate blues tune, saying that it's a metaphor of God (Jesus), saving us all from our sins. Grace, providence, faith, hope, love...whatever you call it, it's all from big daddy!
• Shehryar from Islamabad, Pakistani personally think it might be about the kind of people U2 had been incresingly exposed to over the ZOOTV tour... 'you know everyone in the world... but you feel alone'... pop stars and paris hiltons, people whose 'daddies' (management, parents, whatever) always promise to keep them in the game... thats why they pay for the crashed cars... the non-stop party...
• Ratboy from Ratville, NjI read somewhere it was about "the dark world of smack addiction", but I don't know if it was accurate.
• Ale from Necochea, Argentina"About a woman spoiled by a man who gives her anything." <------ BOF!!! It's fairly possible to say it's about Russia!!! Mother is the so called "mother Russia". Daddy is Lenin, the "allmighty" government of comunism. And Russia's people are the "precious stone".
  It gets preety close to that if you get the lyrics as a sarcastic critic of whatever happend to comunism in Russia. DADDY is the big brother, the government, the "state".... (i don't think i'm too crazy).
  
  SALUT!!
  

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