#and it's my biggest bug bear of this song (and bdilh) that there isn't that acknowledgement

[youllalwaysfindyourwaybackhome]

I'm late to the party with this but I've been thinking about I Can Fix Him (No Really I Can) as an alternative coda to But Daddy I Love Him. In the final chorus of BDILH, we have a vision of the future where the singer and her 'wild boy' lover have come back to town and won everyone over - or at least everyone whose opinion matters to them. But I think ICFHNRIC shows the future that would actually happen, where the singer's infatuation with her lover is shattered by his increasingly poor behaviour and she comes to the realisation that she can't fix him.

Both songs include a public censure/concern over the relationship with Christian undertones - "Sarahs and Hannahs in their Sunday best / clutchin' their pearls, sighing 'What a mess' and "Lord knows the words / We never heard" in BDILH and "They shake their heads sayin' 'God help her' / When I tell 'em he's my man' in ICFHNRIC (the song then goes further and rejects their belief system completely - their 'good lord doesn't need to lift a finger' because 'only [she] can' fix him, and it is her, not their god, who can 'show [him] heaven'.

In BDILH, the singer is encouraging and enabling her lover's behaviour; she is "tellin' him to floor it through the fences' and refusing to come 'to her senses', but in ICFHNRIC she's come to the realisation that his jokes 'were revolting and far too loud' and that his actions are destructive. There is no 'wild joy' here, and while she lingers for a while in this moment, temporarily confident that she 'can handle a dangerous man' and that underneath it all he has a 'halo of the highest grade', the moment crumbles very quickly; there is the despairing, echoing 'I told 'em he's my man', the begging 'no really I can', and the final 'Woah, maybe I can't' in the space of the final lines of the song. 'Scandal does funny things to pride', the singer acknowledges in BDILH, and I think ICFHNRIC ends on this sudden, shocked realisation that she was out of her depth the whole time, she never had the power over him that she had thought, and perhaps that 'They' (who maybe well also be the Sarahs and Hannahs of BDILH) were right the whole time.