Daddy Knows

**Daddy Knows** is an unreleased song by Charli XCX. It was one of the songs intended to be part of Charli's scrapped third studio album, but then was confirmed to not be on the album.

## Background

The song is originally a demo by the artist Eyelar. The song was firstly performed by Charli on November 11th, 2016 in Los Angeles, the performance included Eyelar's vocals, in this show Charli performed other songs with SOPHIE, including Hey Boy Hey Girl, No Angel, Taxi, Roll With Me, and TKO.  Not much more was known about the song until it was confirmed by Charli live that the song would not be on the album, when the project was still set to be released.  The track has also been passed to other artists such as Rita Ora and Zara Larsson.

On 25 December 2022, a version of the song leaked that was ripped from the soundboard of the concert at which it was performed. It contains the official studio vocals from Eyelar, as well as the audio input from Charli's microphone played overtop it, making it the only known version of the song to contain any vocals from Charli.

## Lyrics

[Intro]

Turn up, turn up

(Laughs)

[Verse]

He's gonna shoot me when he hears the news

I'm such a rebel, I just wanna break the rules

Right when he told me, when he told me not to do it

Fell off the wagon again

[Pre-Chorus]

All out, all out

We keep on drinking 'til we crawl out, crawl out

And get some sleep, when we are passed out, passed out

Wish I could do this every day for the rest of my life

[Chorus]

Don't you let my daddy know I'm in the club again

You see, I promised him that I would be in by 10

Don't let my daddy know I kissed someone I just met

I wanna take it off

My clothes are sticky and wet

[Hook]

Don't let my daddy know, oh-woah

Don't let my daddy know, oh-woah

Don't let my daddy know, oh-woah

Don't you let my daddy know I'm in the club again

[Drop]

[Hook]

Don't let my daddy know, oh-woah

Don't let my daddy know, oh-woah

Don't let my daddy know, oh-woah

Don't you let my daddy know I'm in the club again

[Verse]

He's gonna shoot me when he hears the news

I'm such a rebel, I just wanna break the rules

Right when he told me, when he told me not to do it

Fell off the wagon again

[Pre-Chorus]

All out, all out

We keep on drinking 'til we crawl out, crawl out

And get some sleep, when we are passed out, passed out

Wish I could do this every day for the rest of my life

[Chorus]

Don't you let my daddy know I'm in the club again

You see, I promised him that I would be in by 10

Don't let my daddy know I kissed someone I just met

I wanna take it off

My clothes are sticky and wet

[Hook]

Don't let my daddy know, oh-woah

Don't let my daddy know, oh-woah

Don't let my daddy know, oh-woah

Don't you let my daddy know I'm in the club again

[Drop]

[Hook]

Don't let my daddy know, oh-woah

Don't let my daddy know, oh-woah

Don't let my daddy know, oh-woah

Don't you let my daddy know I'm in the club again

## Trivia

* The song was originally thought to be called "Turn On My Light".

## References

1. ↑ CHARLI XCX UPDATES - *Charli performing with SOPHIE, at Exchange, LA list night.*
2. ↑ CHARLI XCX UPDATES - *[...] Daddy knows is NOT going to be on the album,*
3. ↑ https://krakenfiles.com/view/kVGLfNHHNp/file.html