Father's Field

"Father's Field is a song recorded by Traci Lords for her debut studio album 1000 Fires (1995). It was written by Traci Lords and produced by the electronic band Babble. In the song, she reveals her experience with rape when she was ten years old.

Writing and recording
After Lords' record label Radioactive arranged her to fly to London in the spring of 1994, she met with the producer Tom Bailey who had just formed the electronic band Babble along with Alannah Curry and Keith Fernley. Together they recorded three songs: "I Want You," "Fly," and "Just Like Honey". The last one was later re-recorded by Fernley with a different set of lyrics and became the song "Father's Field". Lords used lyrics from her journal she had written in New Zealand in 1993 while filming The Tommyknockers. In her autobiography Traci Lords: Underneath It All, she wrote: "Listening to a new artist named Tori Amos, I became inspired by the candid stories she told in her lyrics. She sang about being raped, and I found myself writing about the same thing, filling notebooks with random thoughts from years before. I titled that section of words "Father's Field," although it had nothing to do with my father’s field. My father’s backyard brought such vivid images to my mind that that’s where my story character was placed."