3 Doors Down - Father's Son Reviews

Song details
Title	Father's Son
Artist	3 Doors Down
Album	Seventeen Days (2005) , Track 9

Song score
Rhythm	: 9.8
Melody	: 9.2
Instruments	: 9.8
Lyrics	: 9.8
Vocal	: 9.2
This song has been reviewed 8 times. Overall score for this song, 9.6.

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0 @ 08-03-2005 00:10 iamreallycool
5 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal So im confused...he raped a girl? is that what it's getting at..then killed himself afterwards because he thought of his...Daughter? someone explain please thanks...
0 @ 08-03-2005 02:19 hobbitgirl
4,764 posts	ok this is from the official 3DD messageboard, the band memebers are members of it and answer questions so here's what i found about 'father's son': WHAZUP? Brad here. Thanx for the question. Neither "father's son" or "sarah yellin' " were insired by actual events although I'm sure they've both happened to someone somewhere. All of our songs are about life but not always about our own. Sometimes the songs are just stories. Kind of like a short story, I supose. Writing short stories and different types of poems are actually what tought me to write lyrics. I know they seem a little dark. "father's son'" does have a message though. It talks about two people on both sides of a wrong and how they both learn the same lesson, not letting the same mistake happen again. "sarah yellin" I wrote in high school. It explains itself pretty well, I think. Thank you guys for all the support you all give us. You all mean the world to us!!!!!!!!! We're finishing our record right now. We'll have it done really soon. Let me tell ya, I CANNOT WAIT FOR YOU ALL TO HEAR IT!!!!!!!!! We love you all!!!!! See ya down the road! so basically the verses are from the mans point of veiw and the chorus form the girls point of view, the rest is up to interpretation. i dont know if that helped but its all i could find
0 @ 04-04-2005 22:09 dUmBbLoNdE241
3 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal ok.. so.. very confused with this song.. its like.. about a girl.. i think.. but i dont get why shes paying to get hurt?.. and then theres a guy that has a daughter.. and hes an alcoholic? i have no clue.. but it really bothers me.. so if anyone knows please email me thanks KiSsEs-- Emily aim-emily158358 email-albracht_emily@yahoo
0 @ 04-04-2005 23:06 hobbitgirl
4,764 posts	first read the post above yours I read somewhere else that the girl was a runaway who turned to prostitution for money. The man "bought" her for a night and then beat her. Later he feels awful and thinks about her parents and how he would feel if she was his daughter. I'm guessing that the title "father's son" says that the man's father too abused someone. The man in the song doesn't want to hurt someone as his father hurt someone. Possible the man's father beat him.
0 @ 20-06-2005 19:29 VillainDan9
2 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal Here's my take: The first verse is about someone who raped a prostitute. He also says "I don't do this for pleasure, I just do it cuz I can," proving he may be a serial rapist. I think the next verse is about a father who became very depressed and turned to drinking, after seeing the victim, because she reminds him of his own daughter. The third verse could be from the son of either the rapist or the father. This is the most confusing part but I know from the line "one hand throws the whiskey, and the other throws the gun" that this person refuses to become an alcoholic or commit suicide of murder, which his father did. The chorus is both (not either) the rapist and the father. It describes the motives of the rapist - possibly previous abuse by his own father - and the fathers feelings after learning of the rape - fear for his own daughter, anger and pain. However, these feeling are kept inside up until they explode violently (somehow, still confused here) Am I close??
0 @ 20-07-2005 21:10 BloodyShrapnel
1 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal Well I agree with most of your ideas, but he's how I see it. I think this whole song evolves around this one man who is becoming a serial rapist. He kills this young prostitute, then, realizing how young she was, he relates her with his own daughter. Assuming that the young 17-year old hooker had a misled childhood, he thinks of how his daughter could become a prositute herself, without the guidance of a good father. ("And wonders what if that was my little girl, Walkin down that road alone") In turn, this causes him to reflect on how messed up he has become, and also how he became his own abusive father as he had known him as a kid. Disgusted by these thoughts, he wants to turn his life around and become a better father.("One hand throws the whiskey, and the other throws the gun...I am not my father's son"). Thats my 5 cents on this song. I also think its the best song on this album, and even the best they ever wrote. Ginormous fan!! Can't wait to see them in concert again.
0 @ 12-11-2005 03:01 kelbelle927
28 posts	my take on these lyrics: He said they never listened She[b] said they'd never understand That [b]I don't this for pleasure I just do it cause I can the bolded part is what the girl is saying. she's a prostitute. she's not doing it for sex, she's doing it because she can. kind of rebelling, in a way "In the haze of a smoky room He chokes that bottle down It's been a month since her saw her face Underneath the blood stained gown" something happened. she got pregnant, or killed. more likely pregnant, because why else would he see her again? "He thinks about that little girl And the one he has at home And wonders what if that was my little girl Walkin down that road alone" the little girl that the prostitute had. who has to grow up without a father. and i interpret the entire song as guilt about creating a child who he didn't want and didn't mean to create.
0 @ 12-01-2006 00:32 godzilla7
1 posts	Here's my take: In the glare of a neon sign... ...she laid her body down. The damned walked in beside her... ...and he laid his money down. The guy pays for prostitution... pretty strait forward. He said: "Don't try to scream, now. ...but I want this one to hurt. And tonight, my pretty one... I'm gonna get my money's worth." The guy is either covering the girls mouth or gagging her mouth with something, and he is saying that he is going to rape her. He said they never listen... She said they'd never understand. That I don't this for pleasure... I just do it cause I can. First line is the guy, second is the girl. Both of them do what they do, not for pleasure, but because they can. This shows that they both have been doing what they do for a while. I swear I didn't want to and I swear I didn't know... ...that things like this could happen... ...to a 17-year old. The girl, after the guy has finished with her, is wondering how this could happen to someone her age. She probably got pregnant as well. And I've bundled up all these fears inside. And I've bottled up all of this pain. And no one or nothing can take this away. But I won't let it happen again. Never again... In the haze of a smoky room. He chokes that bottle down. It's been a month since her saw her face... ...underneath the blood stained gown. He thinks about that little girl... ...and the one he has at home. And wonders: What if that was my little girl... ...walkin down that road alone? The guy is in a room a month later horrified while he remembers what he did to the 17 year old and tries to drive his thoughts away with alcohol and cigarettes. He goes on thinking about how the girl wasn't much older than his own daughter, and that it is someones litte child that is doing that. And I've bundled up all these fears inside. And I've bottled up all of this pain. And no one or nothing can take this away. But I won't let it happen again. Never again... Never again... Maybe I'm just crazy or the devil got inside. But either way my soul is gone... ...and I'll end this all tonight. The one hand throws the whiskey... ...and the other throws the gun. As he cries out to the heavens: "I am not my father's son!" After sitting in that room the guy begins to think that he's crazy, or just a pawn of the devil and is getting ready to comit suicide. He suddenly throws the whiskey and the gun away, rejecting the though and proclaiming "I am not my father's son!" Now that line there makes me think his father comitted suicide. And I've bundled up all these fears inside. And I've bottled up all of this pain. And no one or nothing can take this away. But I won't let it happen again. Never again... Never again... This is both of them saying what has caused this to happen and there is no way they can take away what they have done. However, neither is going to let this happen ever again. It's actually a pretty powerful song.
0 @ 24-02-2006 02:49 loveha8er
114 posts	wow thats all i have to say about this song
0 @ 28-04-2006 09:26 lubylue
9 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal ok its very simple realy. the guy goes to the prostitute beats her feels bad and screams he "im not my fathers son" meaning the devil has him and he no longer belongs to god!
0 @ 12-09-2006 04:56 ItsSara
1 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal You'd have to live it to understand it. Best song ever written.
0 @ 20-03-2008 19:59 funsized24
1 posts	So, the way i interpreted the song is at the beginning it's a guy paying a teen girl that is rebelling for sex and he wants to control and he has her way with her then kills her. The second verse I believe it was a cop that saw her body at the crime scene and he sees this girl and imagines that that could've been his daughter and all this these things that frighten him about fatherhood he bottles and everything he has witnessed. Then at the end, it goes back to the guy who was paying for the prostitute which is having trouble coping with what he did and is about to commit suicide but then it occurs to him that, just because his father was an abusive man, he doesn't have to follow in his footsteps.
0 @ 23-08-2008 19:49 hillsamer
7 posts	rhythm melody instruments lyrics vocal bloodyshrapnel's interpretation made the most sense to me...thanks everyone you made me like this song a lot more now that i actually get it

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