What do you think Oh Father means?

Madonna - Oh Father Meaning

Album cover for Oh Father album cover

Song Released: 1989


Oh Father Lyrics

It's funny that way, you can get used
To the tears and the pain
What a child will believe
You never loved me

[Chorus:]

You can't hurt me now
I got away from you, I never thought I would
You can't make me cry, you once had the power
I...

  1. anonymous
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    Feb 24th 2013 !⃝

    About tough relationship with her father and she was not very close to him.

  2. anonymous
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    Oct 5th 2011 !⃝

    i don't know, i think she addresses it to GOD, this is not the biologically father. but The Father.

  3. anonymous
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    May 25th 2011 !⃝

    It may not be about abuse. It may just be a difficult relationship in which they don't understand each other.

  4. anonymous
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    Jan 17th 2011 !⃝

    Madonna reminisces of her abuse at the hands of her strict father during her childhood.


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