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who_doesnt_like_pjwho_doesnt_like_pj Posts: 73
edited July 2007 in Words and Music...Communication
ok real quick, from whos point of view is the song be sung by? like i know at most points its like narrated right, but the whole dont call me daughter part, is it like the girl saying "dont call me ur daughter because i remember how u treated me" kind of thing ooorrrr one of the parents saying "dont call me, i dont need more rmemories, ur picture is enoughl" or idk something like that? haha i dont know why i bother but im just wondering
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  • SwitchSwitch Posts: 119
    I'm pretty sure it's:

    "Don't call me, Daughter, not fit to"

    IE The father saying don't call me. I think also it is the father saying i am not worthy of your love, don't call me, i'll remember you by this picture.

    Although i suppose he could be angry and be saying you're not worthy of me, but i doubt it.

    Edit. I'm pretty sure 'call' means make contact, not 'call' like a name.
  • who_doesnt_like_pjwho_doesnt_like_pj Posts: 73
    yeaahh thats what i meant like call on the phone, okay cuz i was never sure which one, cuz i think both could fit...haha i used to think its about the father too but i said parents cuz in the beginning it talks about the mom
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  • slightofjeffslightofjeff Posts: 7,762
    No, it's the opposite. The chorus is written from the perspective of the little girl.

    It's about a girl, physically and/or sexually and/or psychologically abused, telling her abuser(s) -- ie her parents -- that they have lost the right to call her their daughter.

    Don't call me daughter because you aren't fit to.
    everybody wants the most they can possibly get
    for the least they could possibly do
  • AndiMAndiM Posts: 102
    I agree with you that it's from the daughter's perspective, but I'm not so sure about the message behind it. I always read it rather as a "don't call me daughter, (I'm) not fit to". The girl's pretty much opressed by the parents so that might work, too, at least for me. Particularly with the lines preceding the first chorus: "Painted room...can't deny there's something wrong..."
  • who_doesnt_like_pjwho_doesnt_like_pj Posts: 73
    ahh why do there have to be so many ways to interpret this?!?!

    okay my intial thought was the daughter feeling she couldnt live up to her parents so why bother calling her their daughter

    haha im watching full house....
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  • Bushleaguer28Bushleaguer28 Posts: 776
    Since many of the lyrics he wrote around that time had to do with troubled youth - why go, rearviewmirror etc - im pretty sure its from the girls point of view. saying to the parents "dont call me daughter" because your "not fit to" as in the way they treated her. The picture that she keeps will remind her of how she was treated.
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  • SwitchSwitch Posts: 119
    This is why i believe that 'call me' could refer to contact, as 'picture kept' to me says that this is all the memory she/he wants.
  • i like matt.ci like matt.c Posts: 1,122
    Bushleaguer28 wrote:
    Since many of the lyrics he wrote around that time had to do with troubled youth - why go, rearviewmirror etc - im pretty sure its from the girls point of view. saying to the parents "dont call me daughter" because your "not fit to" as in the way they treated her. The picture that she keeps will remind her of how she was treated.
    That's how I always saw it.
  • markymark550markymark550 Posts: 5,154
    Bushleaguer28 wrote:
    Since many of the lyrics he wrote around that time had to do with troubled youth - why go, rearviewmirror etc - im pretty sure its from the girls point of view. saying to the parents "dont call me daughter" because your "not fit to" as in the way they treated her. The picture that she keeps will remind her of how she was treated.
    That's how I see it too. I've often thought the daughter in this song is the main character from Rearviewmirror and that the two songs were connected.
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