Daddys Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car Bass Tab

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Zooropa
Babyface
Numb
Lemon
Daddy's Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car »
Some Days Are Better Than Others
Dirty Day
The Wanderer

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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)
<guitar>
Db|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
Ab|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
Eb|-------------------------5---3-----------------------5---3-------|
<bass>                                                           
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:
<guitar>
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:
<bass>
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]
<bass>
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)


Taken from BASSMASTA.NET - http://www.bassmasta.net

Source: http://www.bassmasta.net/u/u2/132047.html

Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques


No Picture E Average	#1 by E F at Sep 29, 1974 at 1:52 PM EST
	I hadn't heard the theory that this song might've been about drugs until I was reading over some of these interpretations of it, but after all the years of listening to it, I think I've had it all wrong. Of course, we have take under consideration that ALL U2 lyrics have an underlying message or a double meaning, so it's unlikely this is simply a song about a spoiled girl and her dad. Also, I don't look at these lyrics and see that it's about God or the Devil. Just because it's a U2 song doesn't mean it's necessarily about God, people! lol. That said, let's have a look. "Daddy" is the recurring theme of the song. "Daddy is with you wherever you are", "Daddy's a comfort", "When you see daddy coming, you're licking your lips, nails bitten down to the quick"...the last line there always had me fooled into thinking the girl crashed her car and was nervous about facing her dad. But think about it...what if "daddy" IS the drug? When she sees it coming, she's licking her lips (she's totally addicted) nails bitten down to the quick (something most addicts do when "coming down". I think this song is about a young girl who is completely dependent on drugs. She needs them to feel good about herself (Daddy's your best friend), she uses drugs to numb herself (Daddy won't let you ache), and finally, "Daddy gives you as much as you can take" meaning she's become so reliant on the drug that an overdose is inevitable. Honestly, I think this song is about her overdose. Her "crashed car" is really a reference to her life and how she's ruined it with drug use. It's an ominous song. There's no hope for the main character even in the end. Even as the drugs ruin her life, all she can think about is having more. (Sunday, Monday, Tuesday...) referring to how she'll just continue to rely on drugs until they end up taking her life. This of course, is just one interpretation, but it's the one that seems the most obvious to me. It could also be about East Germany, but I'm reluctant to think so. Mostly because the U2 songs with a political standpoint are more direct with their meaning. One thing U2 is not shy about is being very direct when it comes to that.

No Picture Jebus Wanna Be	#2 by Jebus ------ at Jan 2, 1975 at 8:06 PM EST
	it's about drugs, daddy is your dealer

No Picture murderotica&tra Rhythm Player	#3 by murderotica™ at Jul 17, 1980 at 8:55 PM EST
	I think straight from Wikipedia it is on the ball. In these performances, MacPhisto would begin in the dressing room preparing his make-up and wardrobe, singing the first half of the song in this setting. The other band members dressed in purple uniforms with the Zoo TV logo on them. MacPhisto emerged from the dressing room half way through the song, and played with the crowd while on stage. Fake money was shot from the stage into the air as MacPhisto yelled "Daddy's Gonna Pay!" Following this, he would make his speech and phone call. I do believe it is meant to mean that the kids who grow up as an only child become greedy and extravagant...as this is what ZooTV was about. Everything you know is wrong as it was said.

No Picture Lauren Rhythm Player	#4 by Lauren A at Apr 11, 1983 at 7:34 AM EST
	Bono has said that this song is about legendary blues singer John Lee Hooker.

No Picture Davis Wanna Be	#5 by Davis Williams at Aug 16, 1990 at 2:17 PM EST
	I can't believe nobody's getting this. The fact that this was their first album after the Soviet Union fell? The Soviet Union's theme music in the beggining? The art in the booklet!? The theme of Zooropa is consumerism. This song is about U.S.-Russio relations after the fall of the USSR. As soon as they embraced Capitalism, buissinessmen from around the world flooded into Russia to monopolize on these people - these people who would be totaly sweapt away by this new, shiny consumerism, dazzled by it all. Daddy is the U.S., the Crashed Car is the old Soviet Union and by 'Paying' to rebuild, the U.S. is obviously getting a lot more out of it...

No Picture Davy Professional	#6 by Davy Langerak at Jan 23, 1992 at 11:25 PM EST
	This song just blew me away as did the whole Zooropa album. The sounds and the lyrics all point to something very sinister.. The notion that Daddy will keep enabling your habits until the very end. Zooropa was the "Channel Flicking" Zoo TV album of disassociation and numbness where you've seen everything and felt nothing. Daddy is at the centerpiece of this apathy. Awesome song!

No Picture Ryan Wanna Be	#7 by Ryan Ell at Mar 28, 1994 at 6:50 PM EST
	I think this song is about the capitalist govern in the Russia

No Picture michael Average	#8 by michael clarke at Sep 25, 1995 at 10:05 AM EST
	Yea, it is definetly not about god. The song has a spoiled brat sort of attitude. I think the devil interpretation is how it was intended, but it might have to do with Russia.