Live Performance
The song is notable for, despite its popularity amongst fans, never being played live after the album version was recorded; an earlier version of the song was performed at each of their first three shows. Jonathan Davis says that the song is simply too personal for him to perform live.
"He's already emotionally drained when he leaves the stage after our set, so I couldn't imagine him leaving the stage after playing that song." – MunkyOccasionally, an instrumental excerpt of the song would be used as an introduction to "Shoots and Ladders" during early live performances.
In an interview, Davis discussed how prior to Korn's Back 2 Basics Tour in 2003 with Limp Bizkit, the band allowed fans to vote on which songs would be in the setlist for that tour. "Daddy" topped the list, but he declined to have it on the setlist it because of its emotional atmosphere.
"I don't play that song live because it's just magic,” Davis said. “If I play that song over and over every night, it'd lose its meaning. I don't want people to expect me to freak out like I did on that. That was what happened in that point in time, and that magic was captured, and I don't want to fuck with it."
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