Chords for 🎵 Everclear - Father Of Mine REACTION

What a happy sound for a really sad subject. _
_ All right, today we're checking out Everclear.
We're listening to the song Father of Mine.
Let's get [B] into it.
_ _ [D] _ _ Father [F#] of mine, tell me where [G] have you been?
You know [E] I just closed my eyes, my whole world
[D] disappeared.
_ Father [F#] of mine, take me [G] back to the day, yeah when I was [E] still your golden boy,
back [D] before you went away.
I [F#] remember blue skies, walking [G] the block.
[E] I loved it when you held me
high.
[D] I loved to hear you talk.
You would take me [F#] to the movies.
You would take [G] me to the beach.
Take [E] me to a place inside that is so [D] hard to reach. _ _
[G] _ [F#] _ _ _ [A] _ [D] _ _ _
[G] _ [F#] _ _ _ [D] _ _ Father [F#] of mine, tell [G] me where did you go?
Yeah, you [E] had the world inside your hands and I [D] seemed alone.
Father [F#] of mine, tell me what do [G] you
see?
When you look back [E] at your wasted life and it don't seem [D] to be.
I was 10 years old,
doing all that [G] I could.
Wasn't easy for [E] me to be a scared white boy in a black [D] neighborhood.
Sometimes you would send me a birthday card with a five [G] dollar bill.
Then I'd never have [E] to put you there and I'd carry it [D] everywhere. _ _ _
[G] _ [F#] Daddy gave me [A] his name. _ _
[G] [F#m] My daddy gave [A] me his name. _ _
[G] _ [F#m] Daddy gave me [A] his name. _ _
[E] My daddy gave me [D] his name.
Daddy gave me his name.
[B] _
Daddy gave me his name.
Daddy gave me his name.
Daddy gave me his name.
What a happy sound for a really sad subject.
Yes, but very relatable, especially if you grew up in
the 2000s or 90s.
If you're a 90s baby, you grew up in the 2000s.
Single parenthood is like the
new craze.
Yeah, it is.
The rates from way back in the 40s, 50s to now, it's insane.
Where did
they all go?
All the dads?
They were going to war back then.
They're not really going to war now.
I don't know.
Prison?
Prison?
Maybe.
I don't know where they went.
I have no idea.
You asked me a question and I'm not qualified to answer.
I'm guessing.
Yeah, they probably went to a new family.
I feel like the modern day is just like, oh, this isn't doing it for me.
Hop onto the next.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, I have no idea.
The sort of like stick through the mud
together thing is not so popular modern day.
Right.
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_ _ Father [F#] of mine, tell me where have [G] you been?
Yeah, [E] just close my eyes and the world [D] disappears.
_ Father [F#] of mine, tell me [G] how do you sleep with the children [E] you abandoned?
And the wife I [D] saw you feed.
I will never [F#] be saved.
I will never be [G] saved.
I will always [E] be weird inside.
I will always [D] be late.
Now I'm a [F#m] grown man. _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ [F#] _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ [G] _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ [F#m] Daddy gave me [A] a name.
_ _ [G] [F#m] My daddy [A] gave me a name.
_ [G] My [F#m] daddy gave me [A] a name.
_ _ [G] [F#m] My daddy gave me [D] a name.
_ Yeah. _ _
Yeah.
Yeah.
_ Mmm. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
_ That was like mastery of making something sound [N] fun that was tragic.
Yeah, the vocals sound painful though.
Yeah.
But it didn't sound like he was telling someone else's story.
It was just like, ha ha, like, you know, it was kind of like.
I'm not gonna let my kid know how terrible you are, how much pain you caused me.
Yeah.
It's like, ooh.
Yeah.
Well, okay, you asked that question where all the dads gone.
When he said something like you walked, I remember you beating your wife, you know, beating his mom or whatever.
It's like, oh wait, most divorces are initiated by women.
It's like 70 to 80% of divorces are initiated by women and the number one reason is money.
But that's the fact that, you know, that he was beating his wife.
It's like, she probably left him.
Oh, okay.
You know what I mean?
I mean, that's obviously a good reason to leave.
Right.
So, I mean, I don't know if the dads are running away or if divorce is just so easy and sometimes even profitable that women are just leaving.
Okay.
Okay.
Oh.
I think it's a combination of a lot of you getting into politics and policies and all kind of stuff to why we are where we are.
I don't think it's just a simple answer.
Like, oh, why did the dads leave?
Yeah, I feel.
Because they felt like it.
I think it's deeper than that.
[E] This, like, I just feel so, like, in this dynamic, I feel so lucky to have had a relationship with my dad.
It's like so hard to imagine, like, a dad just walking away from his kid.
Right.
Like, you know what I mean?
Like, the sort of, like, I'm sure there's, I'm sure there's reasons.
I guess it happens all the time.
Like, I'm sure there's, but it's so hard to imagine.
But then also, it's like, well, [F#] if that woman is, like, preventing him, you know what I mean?
Yes, and maybe that's not the issue.
Every dad I know, like, of my peers, and it's like a bunch of them, they all are trying to be in their kids' life.
Most of them are still with the wife, married.
But like he said, it sounded like around when he was 10, his dad left or something.
I guess it's still too early to tell if it's going to be a single parent household, you know, for both of their children or not.
Oh, you're saying the, your, for the kids?
Yeah, all my friends and some of their kids, you know, are between, like, just born recently.
And maybe, like, the oldest one is about 10.
Okay.
You know what I mean?
But yeah, they're all married and with the mom.
So there's like two sides to every story.
Not all, but there's a few that are not.
Yeah.
They had kids, like, in high school and stuff, but they're, like, in the kid's life, not completely out.
But yeah, I just think it might be early to tell if everyone stays [Bm] together.
Yeah.
There's always two sides to every story.
Yeah.
That's wild, man.
I don't think Dash is running out the house.
Yeah, but to the kid, it's like, well, [G#] if you're still at home with mom, then dad left.
No matter what.
Like, you know?
Oh, man.
And they had beans.
Did you see the little kid on this video?
He was beans from, like, whatever show.
Even Stevens or something.
I don't remember.
But he just had the funniest face.
I remember that.
I don't know.
_ _ Tell me, man, what do you know?
[G] What?
_ Me and my boys [G] on the road.
[G#] We go.
She told me, boy, you can go.
Like, I don't know.
But I don't