Hay Loft

I recently found out about this song through a danganronpa edit and it does not disappoint.

Through its catchy chorus and interesting story, I couldn't help but share my thoughts about it.

I feel like the message of this song is pretty clear but just to elaborate, I think this song is about two lovers in a hay loft possibly having sex while someone's father is outside of the barn with a gun, ready to kill both of them.

This song is told through first and third person. In the first person part of the song, they use the word "my daddy" in the chorus. The part could be sung from someone witnessing this whole situation go down. They are saying their daddy's got a gun and ready to kill the two lovers. The third person part is when narrator is describing the scene and what the lovers are doing.

I picture a vast and open field with a farm, someone in the Midwest. Two lovers sneak off into a barn, possibly to get warm. The situation escalates when they begin to have sex:

"Young lovers and they are not sleeping" "Young lovers with their legs tied up in knots"

What they do not realize is someone's dad has a gun. It could possibly be one of the lovers' dads or someone else's. The narrator desperately repeats the phrase, "My daddy's got a gun you better run." They try to warn the lovers the dad's coming but it's too late. The dad shoots both the lovers in the head in the hay loft.

What I find interesting is that they repeat the chorus over and over again after the dad has already shot the lovers. Maybe he's about to kill another couple? Or maybe the narrator is warning the listener that the dad isn't to be messed with.

this song is so fun! i think it's pretty self-explanatory too...

It could be a story of two rural lovers that just happened to venture into the artist's head. It's plausible.

It could also have more hidden meaning, to either suggest difficulties in a parental relationship, or difficulties in a romantic relationship, where the dad really becomes a synecdoche to portray a large unknown force that is approaching to, one way or another, roflstomp on the young love :P

Regardless of either, the song's still fantastic.

I don't believe there's anything about molestation in this song. I think it's a song filled with metaphors. Daddy and his gun could represent anyone in an authority position (or someone just plain controlling). And that person is gunning for someone who is involved in a romantic relationship...perhaps that which "daddy" doesn't improve of...(dang preposition!)

I think this song is about a serial killer being told by this serial killer's child.

The song itself is written from the perspective of a child who knows what their father is doing. "my daddy's got a gun, you better run." that part seems obvious to me.

When the verse with "it started In the hayloft... young lovers not sleeping." I've heard variations of this line in various media being in reference to sex, so I think that the first murder was some teenagers or young adults, who thought the hayloft was abandoned, snuck out to basically have sex in it. The owner of this hayloft is probably the classic rickety weirdo farmer who lives on the outskirts of town trope, and brings his shotgun out in the middle of the night (they mention long johns which were and probably still are commonly used as warm PJs for farmers) and goes out to see who trespassed on his property. In defending his property, he shot their heads off and probably either:

a) enjoyed killing them and wanted to continue or b) is probably nuts and sees this as a fit punishment for trespassing... to just kill them point blank.

I think the next verse after the chorus would take place after some time has passed and he continues to kill young lovers who use his barn as a place to have sex or what ever. they mention the lovers being tied up on their legs (and most likely other places) and then they're killed. My conclusion for that is that he does take pleasure in killing these people so he ties them up in his hayloft when he catches them and then offs them like livestock because he's psycho.

That's just the conclusion I've come to from analyzing this song, if im wrong im wrong but that's what I think is the most logical theory in my mind because of mother mother's obvious themes and the creepy tone of the song.

I think this song is about country girls making do, as country girls do, with no mattress only hay bales and one of their fathers (or maybe both, who knows, they are country girls, after all) has a gun and goes to merk the intruders but will inevitably kill both country girls and this is left ambiguous to be either because he's trigger-happy before verifying who who he is shooting is or because of his disgust to find his daughter having sex or in my interpretation homosexual sex

In my opinion this song is about a lesbian couple in the haylofts (duh) whose dad finds about their relationship, and so kills he daughter\'s lover.\n\nI think with the addition of Haloft ll this is even more obvious. With this addition can we not only tell that one of the lovers was a girl, but that one of them got shot.\n\nThis song is told from the daughters perspective, while Hayloft II is told from the dad\'s. After killing his daughter\'s lover she goes crazy and kills him with the same weapon.

Great song.

Here is my theory. There are two young people making love in a hayloft. One of the lovers' Dad (it never says which one, this is left to the listener to decide) has a gun. This point cannot be over emphasized. The father puts on his long johns with the intention of shooting 'the hay loft deed head's straight off.' I think by this it is meant the person sleeping with his child.

It can be inferred that it is very cold out because the narrator often stutters, but this might not be necessary to understanding the song.

My interpretation is a song about a father and his two kids.

One of his children is a teenager who sleeps with someone in the hayloft and the other is the child that says “My daddy’s got a gun”. The child either threatens or warns their sibling and (the siblings) lover by saying that line. We can say that the teen and their lover are having sex with the lines, “Young lovers and they are not sleeping" and "Young lovers with their legs tied up in knots".

The dad most likely shot the lover dead with a shotgun.

(That’s all I really have to say!!)

I’m basically with a lot of other people on this one and believe this song is pretty literal. It’s about two young lovers making love in a barn and the main characters daddy (this is obviously taking place in the south, as rooted in a lot of other Mother Mother songs) strongly disapproves of his child making love to someone in a barn, so pops gets a gun to handle the child’s lover. To go a little further I think this family is highly religious, and I think the main character in the story/ singer is most likely female due to the “ daddy’s precious little angel” trope and the “daddy will do anything to protect his little girl” trope. I don’t think I have to explain further, in a lot of religious southern families the strict, over-projective religious dad will go mountains lengths to project his “pure, innocent, little precious baby girl” from anything, especially those nasty teenage boys. The daughter (main character) grew up in your typical sex restrictive/disgusted home restricting the growing girl from her sexuality. This leads to, as anyone would imagine, the girl having a friend’s with benefits relationship with someone once she turns a teenager. One night (I imagine this song to take place very late, after 12AM, as they don’t want to get caught) she sneaks her lover into a barn near her parents home and you know what happens next. They’re loud enough to wake daddy, he’s not happy.

(I can also heavily see the two lovers in this song being female, as the song also heavily implies this is a lesbian relationship IMO (due to the dads anger being so high that he’s willing to get a gun and shoot his daughter’s lover. And for the reasons I explained above, this could explain why this would be a lesbian relationship) But it also works as a female and male relationship. Either way, the singer/main character in this song is a female to me.