Stereophonics – Billy Daveys Daughter

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  General Comment:the bridge line makes me tingle, im from swansea, god bless the phonics, great album, very underrated

  Flag skagandboneon February 13, 2012   Link

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  Song Meaning:There is no hidden meaning to the lyrics. Billy Davey is a character from Kelly's home town of Cwmaman. He had 6 daughters,the yougest of which,is the girl in the title.(although the lyric says "Billy's second daughter")
  She hooked up with a local junkie and had a violent relationship. While traveling back from England to Wales, they were having a violent argument. Half way over the Severn bridge, she got out of the car and jumped over, killing herself.
  "the bride that parts us" literally means the the bridge that parts the Welsh from the English.

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  General Comment:This is a true story. I went to see Kelly Jones live and he introduced the song by saying "one thing I learned from this song is never use real people's names in your lyrics."

  Flag glojjoon February 12, 2011   Link

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  General Comment:maybe it's about his famous daughter 'throwing herself to dirty waters' as in, maybe heading down a bad path such as the pornography industry, and the bridge could be a sort of moral divider between us and the people who sacrifice their dignity to become adult entertainers. she used the bridge again and again, maybe that means that she regularly lived 2 separate lives - one as a famous, respectable person - the other as a prostitute or erotic actress...
  
  and of course word gets around, and her father finds out, and now he's left with just a dream of all that she could have been...
  
  any way you look at it though, the lyrics are so sad. hats off to the stereophonics for a good finish to their (first?) album. good stuff.
  
  another very interesting thing to point out: the album is actually called 'WORD GETS AROUND' . . .

  Flag BrEnNo1023on August 31, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:i guess that bridge people are speculating about is just a random bridge that seperated kelly's town from the town Billey Davey and his daughters lived in. (she lived near my town; the bridge that parts us from them)

  Flag herchenmon December 21, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:i have to say i disagree with you lewi15. kelly although a great lyricist and phenomenal singer probably wouldnt have meant it to have much of a metaphorical sense. he just described what he knew, especially on the first couple of stereophonics albums, and this is why i love his style. he paints the pictures so well. you have good insight though, fair play, but i just dont think that was kelly's style.

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  General Comment:Amazing song, off definetly one of their best albums..at first i just thort it was about the obvious. But this song goes to many levels, such as..."the bridge that parts us from them" being the cultural division between blacks and whites in the past, or just some sort of division between to places. and billys daughter is represented as a hero, martin luther king for e.g. tryin to get everybody close and 'civilised' by risking her own life. anyway this is js wat i first thought, I'm not sayin it correct just my interpretation. amazin song tho!!

  Flag Lewi15on January 18, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:Im a phonics lover and I think this has to be thr best album and its such a touching song, rly draws you into the fathers heartache with the way he repeats "he dreams", so sad

  Flag keriaon June 20, 2006   Link

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  General Comment:Fantastic song from what is in my opinion their best album, could be the severn bridge but equally given kelly's hometown of Cwmamman (one road in, one road out) could be any town that is 'cut-off' from others... brilliant

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  General Comment:Yeah this is a great song, off what I reckon is their best album. Love the raw anthemic feel of this track.

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