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.
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.