It gets its power from its brazen earnesty - Simon wrote it with his seven-year-old daughter Lulu in mind, and his 10-year-old son Adrian accompanied him in the chorus. “ Father and Daughter” is an original track written for the Wild Thornberrys Movie, but it’s since become a perennial staple of grocery store background music and the anthem of countless father/daughter wedding dances. It was for this song that Simon received his first (and only) Oscar nomination, a momentous occasion for which he was recognized not only as a stellar songwriter, but a father as well.īack in Western Massachusetts, I was having a first of my own - the stinging heat of jealousy and melancholy now interpreted as “daddy issues.” Unlike Eliza, I didn’t have a doting dad, and even today, the song is still a mournful reminder of that fact. These, of course, are the lyrics to “ Father and Daughter” by Paul Simon of Simon and Garfunkel. Just as Eliza reaches London, we hear the end of the chorus: “There could never be a father who loved his daughter more than I love you.” To the meadow in the mountain where we counted every falling star Just open your window and follow your memory upstream If you leap awake in the mirror of a bad dreamĪnd for a fraction of a second, you can’t remember where you are Her father tearfully buckles her into the back seat, and as the plane lifts off, a gentle melody begins playing along with the following words: Early in the film, Eliza, our main character, says goodbye to her parents as she climbs into a small propeller airplane destined for boarding school in London. I was six years old in 2002 when I saw the newly released Wild Thornberrys Movie.
In doing so, we hope to come out the other side with a better understanding of our own - and everyone else’s - daddy issues. We’ll talk to famous dads and their equally famous progeny and also deconstruct fatherly influence in each and every one of its forms. Welcome to The Daddy Issue, our very fatherly tip of the cap to the father figures in our lives as well as all the fatherly stuff they can’t help but do - from pretending they’re not asleep on the couch, to the dad jokes that make even Tony Soprano smile.
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