Pretty straightforward lyrics here. Father and daughter arguing. "she's sixteen and now she hates him". Teenage rebellion. "he don't like her boyfriends or her politics". It's been his habit to lecture her, to give her "a piece of his mind". But frankly, she's had enough and she turns on him to give him a piece of hers. Because he still harks back to the days when she was a little girl asleep in her bed, and he just hasn't accepted that she has grown up, which shows him up as the more immature of the two of them.
As the father of grown-up kids, I can really relate to this, and I would imagine that these days Tracey can also see it from the parent's point of view, though at the time she wrote this she would have been in the girl's position, and was probably talking to her own father.
Pretty straightforward lyrics here. Father and daughter arguing. "she's sixteen and now she hates him". Teenage rebellion. "he don't like her boyfriends or her politics". It's been his habit to lecture her, to give her "a piece of his mind". But frankly, she's had enough and she turns on him to give him a piece of hers. Because he still harks back to the days when she was a little girl asleep in her bed, and he just hasn't accepted that she has grown up, which shows him up as the more immature of the two of them.
As the father of grown-up kids, I can really relate to this, and I would imagine that these days Tracey can also see it from the parent's point of view, though at the time she wrote this she would have been in the girl's position, and was probably talking to her own father.