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U2 "Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car"
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steve palmer am560@freenet.carleton.ca
Tune down 1/2 step to: Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb
This whole song is one chord: A (after tuning down)
Intro: (guitar and bass together)
Db|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
Ab|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
Eb|-------------------------5---3-----------------------5---3-------|
Db|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
Ab|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
Eb|-3-3--1-3-3--1-3-3--1-3-3--1-3-3--1-3-3--1-3-3--1-3-3--1-3-3-----|
(this repeats a few times)
When drums and bass stop:
Db|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
Ab|-------5------5------5-----------5------5------5-----------------|
Eb|--5-3----5-3----5-3----5-3--5-3----5-3----5-3----5-3-------------|
Bass line for whole song:
Db|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
Ab|-0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0---|
Eb|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
Except for: [bass riff #1]
Db|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
Ab|-0-0-0--0-0-0---5-3-------0-0-0--0-0-0---------------------------|
Eb|--------------------5-3------------------------------------------|
(this riff is played a few times throughout the song)
A
You're a precious stone
You're out on your own
You know everyone in the world
But you feel alone [bass riff #1]
Daddy won't let you weep
Daddy won't let you ache
Daddy gives you as much as you can take
A-ha sha-la, a-ha sha-la
Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car
A little uptight
You're a baby's fist
Butterfly kisses up and down your wrist
When you see daddy coming
You're licking your lip
Nails bitten down to the quick
A-ha sha-la, a-ha sha-la
Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car
Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car
You've got a head full of traffic
You're a siren's song
You cry for mama
And daddy's right along
He gives you the keys to a flamin' car
Daddy's with you wherever you are
Daddy's a comfort
Daddy's your best friend
Daddy'll hold your hand right up to the end
A-ha sha-la, a-ha sha-la
Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car
Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday's alright...
[Repeat and fade until end]
Daddy's Gonna Pay for Your Crashed Car
chords by:Jason Liebgott
zooropa@mail.utexas.edu
I listened very hard to Daddy's ... and I now change my opinion to : There
is guitar. Only it is run through like a RottoVibe, Octave, Big Muff, Whah
Whah, Phazer, and about 35 other peddles. I just got done hooking up all my
peddles in every possible way... Absolutely nothing sounded like it.
BUTTTTTTT, I do think I figured it out! If you have a cruch box/peddle,
CRANK IT UP.
A G
That is it.
A G
Your a precious stone
A G
Your out on your own
A G
You know everyone in the world
A G
Your still alone
Play it along with the cd/cassette/record/8-track and if you play it on a 4
beat, like: A A A G it sounds right( to me, my opinion ).
Taken from The BassMasta -- http://www.bassmasta.net
Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Jess Average |
#1 by Jess Allen at Apr 17, 1971 at 11:14 PM EST |
| Crashed car represents a broken person. We leave that vehicle behind, death to self, and start the new life. Daddy of course is God. When daddy pays for crashed car, he brings us to a place where we realize what we had to let go of, namely the things that were holding us back spiritually. | |
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Max Average |
#2 by Max Benton at Oct 5, 1971 at 12:42 PM EST |
| My thoughts are that he's talking about the college girls who drive the Lexi?, BMW's, etc. and are always dependent because they don't want to work. | |
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Lee Professional Badass |
#3 by Lee the bass player, known as blacktooth90™ at Jul 7, 1975 at 11:37 PM EST |
| This is NOT about God. Definitely. A song about redemption wouldn't be so evilish made. There's irony, mockery and evilness in Bono's voice, like he is making fun of the girl's situation, he is not here to help her, on the contrary, he is here to decieve her and make it worse. This song is the most important of the whole Zooropa album, and probably the ZooTV tour(along with Zoo Station, The Fly, Even Better Than The Real Thing and Numb). I is supposed to be a song about a spoiled girl, but that's the superficial meaning. I think it's about addiction, every addiction, might be drugs or even TV(every song in this album has something to do with it). The fact that it is MacPhisto who sings this is not coincidence. I think MacPhisto is Daddy, and also the one who crashed his car, that's why he starts singing to the mirror, he is the Devil, but also The Fly when he gets old and retire to Las Vegas. He's addicted to fame(and also drugs probably). He says right after the song ends: "Look what you've done to me" and he leaves a pause in which you think he regrets his fame, but then he says "You've made me very famous and I thank you", as I said, he's addicted to fame. This song tells "Look what Daddy's done to YOU". There might be also a connection with Germany, but I don't think it's the central subject. I think Daddy is the drug dealer, and the girl is the victim. | |
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Patrick Average |
#4 by Patrick Ryan at Sep 9, 1977 at 3:03 AM EST |
| I read something somewhere about it being about "The dark world of smack addiction", but who knows. | |
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Matt Average |
#5 by Matt Vautour at Oct 14, 1979 at 11:13 AM EST |
| Totally thought this song was about an incestuous father and his daughter, and his efforts to pay for her "crashed car", i.e., her abortion. Hope that doesn't make me twisted. But reading some of your ideas, the drug thing, especially Daddy being the drug itself, makes a whole lotta sense. | |
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ScumFucBondage Average |
#6 by ScumFucBondage bumsex at Apr 17, 1985 at 12:50 PM EST |
| There is no way this song is about God. Read the lyrics. Does this sound like any God you know? This song is about the DEVIL. This is the evilest song on Zooropa. It comes right after Stay for a reason. When you are down on your luck and depressed, who's there to comfort you? Satan. This is definitely what the song is about. I read that when Bono performed this song on tour, he always wore his MacPhisto getup. Read C.S. Lewis' 'The Screwtape Letters'. | |
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Paris Average |
#7 by Paris Seawell at Nov 11, 1995 at 11:25 PM EST |
| it's about a father babying his daughter and her never becoming independant as a result. start w/ that meaning then think about it some more... | |
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sidvic Average |
#8 by sidvic at Jun 9, 2005 at 6:55 PM EST |
| A lot of U2's songs are about God. This one is DEFINETLY not and even if it was, it was written after U2 discovered irony. | |
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justin Average |
#9 by justin andrews at Dec 26, 2005 at 2:11 PM EST |
| Though I think it's most likely sung from the perspective of the devil, I think it could also be about East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. "You cry for mama, and daddy's right along " East germany looking for help from Mother Russia but West Germany coming to aid instead "Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car" Daddy (Germany) is going to pay for the East's crashed economy Plus, the "crashed car" could also be seen as referring to the Trabant, the East German-made car that thosands of East Germans abandoned at roadsides (crashed) when the Berlin Wall fell. | |
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Adam Rhythm Player |
#10 by Adam Vaughan at Jan 1, 2006 at 10:09 PM EST |
| Keeping in mind that it's Bono, this song sounds like Daddy is a metaphor for God looking out for his children. Daddy's gonna pay for your crashed car... Daddy's with you whereever you are... Sounds to me like the concept of God offering redemption to one of his lost. Could be just what it says tho. | |
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