the fantastic thing about this song is that the singer is singing towards her father (not mother, hamessyrath--the clues come when she sings "man" in the second verse and "boy" in the final chorus), but she holds the 2nd person perspective throughout the song. This sort of fools the listener into thinking that she might be singing to someone else's father, but "blood is like water, the bath that you poured me" proves that it is her own father. Effectively, the 2nd person perspective implies emotional distance--she is singing to her father as though he is just another man.
the fantastic thing about this song is that the singer is singing towards her father (not mother, hamessyrath--the clues come when she sings "man" in the second verse and "boy" in the final chorus), but she holds the 2nd person perspective throughout the song. This sort of fools the listener into thinking that she might be singing to someone else's father, but "blood is like water, the bath that you poured me" proves that it is her own father. Effectively, the 2nd person perspective implies emotional distance--she is singing to her father as though he is just another man.