Going Solo - The Kinks

She left a message after the tone

I hear it over and over on the answer phone

No one can find her, address unknown

She just decided to go out and make it alone

Solo, solo

My little child is going solo

Solo, solo

My little child is going solo

I feel like crying, I’m in a rage

I can’t understand why she just ran away

What made it happen, guess we’ll never know

She just decided to go out and make it solo

Solo, solo, solo, solo, solo

We work like dogs all of our lives

Like millions of other husbands and wives

Sent her through college, didn’t care what we spent

Think of how we feel

She didn’t say, she didn’t ask, she just went

Solo, solo

My little child, you’re going solo

It’s like a pattern, it’s like a crime

We see it happen time after time

You raise your children, you watch them grow

Then one day it’s good-bye, they’ve decided they’re going solo

Solo, solo, solo, solo, solo

The toys are forgotten, now it appears

You’ve let them down after all of these years

Sacrificed all, now there’s nothing to show

Ungrateful youth, decided you’re going solo

Solo, solo

My little child, you’re going solo

Solo, solo

Ungrateful youth, you’re going solo

The obligations, all of the ties

Have got to be broken so you can survive

Just because they gave you life, they can’t stop if you grow

Now they can’t hold you back 'cause you’re going solo