Violent Femmes

Gone Daddy Gone

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Beautiful girl, lovely dress
High school smiles, oh yes
Beautiful girl, love your dress
Where she is now I can only guess

Cuz it's gone daddy gone
Love is gone
Yeah, it's gone daddy gone
Love is gone
Yeah, it's gone daddy gone
Love is gone
Gone daddy gone
The love is gone away

When I see you
Eyes will turn blue
When I see you
A thousand eyes turnin' blue

Cuz it's gone daddy gone
Love is gone
Yeah, it's gone daddy gone
Love is gone
Yeah, it's gone daddy gone
Love is gone
Gone daddy gone
The love is gone away

Tell by the way that you switch your walk
I can see by the way that you baby talk
I can know by the way that you treat your man
I can love you baby 'til it's a crime

Cuz it's gone daddy gone
Love is gone
Yeah, it's gone daddy gone
Love is gone
Yeah, it's gone daddy gone
Love is gone
Gone daddy gone
The love is gone away

Beautiful girl, lovely dress
15 smiles, oh yes
Beautiful girl, lovely dress
where she is now I can only guess

Cuz it's gone daddy gone
Love is gone
Yeah, it's gone daddy gone
Love is gone
Yeah, it's gone daddy gone
Love is gone
Gone daddy gone
The love is gone away

Gone away
Gone away
Gone away

Lyrics © Bmg Rights Management, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

Writer

Gordon Gano, Willie Dixon

Duration

3:06

Release date

1983-02-23

Sentiment

Positive

Submitted by

typo On Dec 28, 2001

Beautiful girl, lovely dress
High school smiles, oh yes
Beautiful girl, love your dress
Where she is now I can only guess

Cuz it's gone daddy gone 
Love is gone
Yeah, it's gone daddy gone
Love is gone
Yeah, it's gone daddy gone
Love is gone
Gone daddy gone 
The love is gone away

When I see you 
Eyes will turn blue
When I see you 
A thousand eyes turnin' blue

Cuz it's gone daddy gone 
Love is gone
Yeah, it's gone daddy gone
Love is gone
Yeah, it's gone daddy gone
Love is gone
Gone daddy gone 
The love is gone away

Tell by the way that you switch your walk
I can see by the way that you baby talk
I can know by the way that you treat your man
I can love you baby 'til it's a crime

Cuz it's gone daddy gone 
Love is gone
Yeah, it's gone daddy gone
Love is gone
Yeah, it's gone daddy gone
Love is gone
Gone daddy gone 
The love is gone away

Beautiful girl, lovely dress
15 smiles, oh yes
Beautiful girl, lovely dress
where she is now I can only guess

Cuz it's gone daddy gone 
Love is gone
Yeah, it's gone daddy gone
Love is gone
Yeah, it's gone daddy gone
Love is gone
Gone daddy gone 
The love is gone away

Gone away
Gone away
Gone away

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2001-12-28 12:39:46

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by relephant23elephant

16y ago

Word for word, Gano's explanation of the song on a bootleg live CD I own. "This is a song about being out of high school, and the love being gone."

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by DADSonACID

22y ago

best song with a Xylophone ever

violent femmes are rad

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by kmk_natasha

21y ago

I think it's about loss of innocence. Maybe a long lost high school love.

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by musky_ox

21y ago

In respsone to Goukuh:

Keep in mind that when Gordon Gano (the writer and singer of the Femmes) wrote the songs on the first album, he was either still in high school or just finishing, at the ripe age of 18. On one of the albums, he actually says he wrote this song for some girl (he gave her name, it was Stacy something I think). The song is pretty straight-forward. It's about a guy who loved a girl in high school, but either she graduated or he graduated, which means he doesn't see her anymore. Or, it could be about a guy who considers his high school love the one that got away.

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by LainyBainy

19y ago

I saw the Gnarls Barkly video of this song and was paying so much attention to the video and it's...uniqueness...that I didn't pay much attention to the lyrics so I looked it up here and saw that it was a cover for the Femmes.

I agree that I think it's about a high school sweetie(who was 15?) that he had been in love with and that they go there seperate ways.

I wasn't quit sure what he meant by when eyes turn blue so i typed it into google to see if I could find anything and an elvis costello song 'when green eyes go blue' popped up so I looked up those lyrics as well. In Elvis' song he talks about everytime he sees this girl he loves her so much that he can't even talk. He goes on to say that even as time goes on, you may learn and gain experince but he'd rather 'squander' all his wits away because 'You brighten up my darkest gaze'. He wonders why the hell they didn't stay together and when the times get rough he still thinks of her to get through it and that he will always feel love for her. I then think the Femmes might have been trying to get across the same message and so put their blue eyed thing in...

The next verse is probably explaining that he can tell that she is unhappy and that she isn't in a very good marriage and that he still would've been better.

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by Potatoes9000

22y ago

good song

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by partofthiswasmine

21y ago

I agree with DADSonACID.... Totally brilliant Xylophone solo!!!! I love that the Femmes use so much percussion in their music... Not entirely sure about the meaning though. Someone searching for love and not finding it? Anyone actually know for sure?

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by happytreefriend89

21y ago

high school girlfriend perhaps.

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by mars21

19y ago

Good tune: Lyrics borrow shamelessly from Willie Dixon's 1954 blues standard "I want to make Love to You". Bit of plagiarism. Here's the original version:

"They tell about the way you Switch and walk Now I can see by the way you Baby talk Now I can know by the way you Treat your man That I could love you baby until the Cryin' shame"

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by kmk_natasha

19y ago

Actually, mars21, they give proper credit for this in the liner notes of their debut album.

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