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Without the Roy''
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* Little Simz' "I Love You, I Hate You", is all about her complicated relationship with her absent father. The circumstances surrounding his abandonment aren't delved into; the song is much more about how it affected her even into adulthood, and as the title implies, Simz rallies quite a lot. On one hand, she resents him for his absence and how he deeply hurt her and her family, being frustrated by her inability to ever confront him and say ''anything'' reconciliatory or [[CallingTheOldManOut otherwise]]. On the other hand, she still loves her father because he is still family, and ultimately wants to let go from the trauma and move on, not just because it's exhausting, but because she's finding new strength from the rest of her adult life.
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* Little Simz' "I Love You, I Hate You", is all about her complicated relationship with her absent father. The circumstances surrounding his abandonment aren't delved into; the song is much more about how it affected her even into adulthood, and as the title implies, Simz rallies quite a lot. On one hand, she resents him for his absence and how he deeply hurt her and her family, being frustrated by her inability to ever confront him and say ''anything'' reconciliatory or [[CallingTheOldManOut otherwise]]. On the other hand, she still loves her father because he is still family, and ultimately wants to let go from the trauma and move on, not just because it's exhausting, but because she's finding new strength from the rest of her adult life.
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* Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival's "Someday Never Comes" begins about the narrator reminiscing when he was a young boy watching his father leaving him and his mother for an unknown reason, only leaving with the false reassurance that "Someday, you'll understand." The song then transitions to the narrator having all grown up [[GenerationXerox and in the process of leaving]] ''[[GenerationXerox his own]]'' [[GenerationXerox family]], still just as lost and confused as [[HistoryRepeats he too tells his son that "Someday, you'll understand."]]
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* "Tiberius Rising", by OoklaTheMok, is from the perspective of a father who misses his now-grown son, Jimmy, and is almost an inversion of this trope, since it's the son who was always the distant one. If you pay attention to the subtext, you'll realize that [[spoiler: Jimmy is [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries James Tiberius Kirk]].]]
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* "Tiberius Rising", by OoklaTheMok, Music/OoklaTheMok, is from the perspective of a father who misses his now-grown son, Jimmy, and is almost an inversion of this trope, since it's the son who was always the distant one. If you pay attention to the subtext, you'll realize that [[spoiler: Jimmy is [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries James Tiberius Kirk]].]]
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* In Chad Brock's "Ordinary Life," a married man and father blindsides his wife by abandoning his family because he feels trapped by their banal routine. In the end, he calls from the airport at midnight, lonely and wanting to come home.
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* In Chad Brock's "Ordinary Life," a married man and father blindsides his wife by abandoning his family because he feels trapped by their banal routine. In the end, he calls from the airport at midnight, lonely and wanting to come home.home.
* "Girls" by Tricky is about Tricky's estranged father, Roy Thaws, who abandoned the family before he was born.
-->''You've never seen your dad, boy?\\
I've never seen my dad, boy\\
Without the Roy''
* "Girls" by Tricky is about Tricky's estranged father, Roy Thaws, who abandoned the family before he was born.
-->''You've never seen your dad, boy?\\
I've never seen my dad, boy\\
Without the Roy''
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* In Chad Brock's "Ordinary Life," a married man and father blindsides his wife by abandoning them because he feels trapped by their banal routine. In the end, he calls from a hotel room at midnight, lonely and wanting to come home.
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* In Chad Brock's "Ordinary Life," a married man and father blindsides his wife by abandoning them his family because he feels trapped by their banal routine. In the end, he calls from a hotel room the airport at midnight, lonely and wanting to come home.
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Come, so you remain a complete unknown''
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Come, so you remain a complete unknown''unknown''
* In Chad Brock's "Ordinary Life," a married man and father blindsides his wife by abandoning them because he feels trapped by their banal routine. In the end, he calls from a hotel room at midnight, lonely and wanting to come home.
* In Chad Brock's "Ordinary Life," a married man and father blindsides his wife by abandoning them because he feels trapped by their banal routine. In the end, he calls from a hotel room at midnight, lonely and wanting to come home.
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* Music/TheNotoriousBig's father left Biggie's family at a young age. He addressed this occasionally, notably on "The What."
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* Music/TheNotoriousBig's father left Biggie's family at a young age. He addressed this occasionally, notably on "The What.""
* Music/Sum41's song "Dear Father" is an open letter from Deryck Whibley to the father he never met.
-->''You're out there somewhere, I don't know if you\\
Care at all, it seems that you don't\\
It's as if the day will never\\
Come, so you remain a complete unknown''
* Music/Sum41's song "Dear Father" is an open letter from Deryck Whibley to the father he never met.
-->''You're out there somewhere, I don't know if you\\
Care at all, it seems that you don't\\
It's as if the day will never\\
Come, so you remain a complete unknown''
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* Music/{{Everclear}}'s "Father Of Mine" is about the singer wondering how his absentee father is doing. He mentions that he won't be a deadbeat dad like his own father.
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* Music/{{Everclear}}'s "Father Of Mine" is about the singer wondering how his absentee father is doing. He At the very end of the song, he mentions that he won't be he's now a deadbeat dad like father himself, and that he'll never let his own father.daughter go through what he himself did.
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* Billy Gilman's "Oklahoma" has a young child discovering his bilogical father in Oklahoma after having been separated from him early on.
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* Billy Gilman's "Oklahoma" has a young child discovering his bilogical biological father in Oklahoma after having been separated from him early on.
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* Music/ConwayTwitty: His 1976 No. 1 hit, "The Games That Daddies Play," which touches on the important roles of fatherhood and the void a 7-year-old boy and his mother feel after the boy asks the mother for permission to go on a chaperoned camping trip with his friend and his father. The "games that daddies play" in the first sense is the boy wanting to participate in traditional "man" activities, such as hiking, fishing and having a man-to-man talk with his friend's father. The mother breaks down in tears, the trope kicking in – the boy's father had left her and the boy six years earlier and has since had no contact (nor attempted any) with either of them – realizing her son needs a positive father figure in his life.
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* Music/ConwayTwitty: His 1976 No. 1 hit, "The Games That Daddies Play," which touches on the important roles of fatherhood and the void a 7-year-old boy and his mother feel after the boy asks the mother for permission to go on a chaperoned camping trip with his friend and his father. The "games that daddies play" in the first sense is the boy wanting to participate in traditional "man" activities, such as hiking, fishing and having a man-to-man talk with his friend's father. The mother breaks down in tears, the trope kicking in – the boy's father had left her and the boy six years earlier and has since had no contact (nor attempted any) with either of them – realizing her son needs a positive father figure in his life. Whether the boy's request to go on the campout is left to the imagination of the listener; the song simply ends that the boy is "a victim of another kind of games that daddies play."
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* Music/ConwayTwitty: His 1976 No. 1 hit, "The Games That Daddies Play," which touches on the important roles of fatherhood and the void a 7-year-old boy and his mother feel after the boy asks the mother for permission to go on a chaperoned camping trip with his friend and his father. The "games that daddies play" in the first sense is the boy wanting to participate in traditional "man" activities, such as hiking, fishing and having a man-to-man talk with his friend's father. The mother breaks down in tears, the trope kicking in – the boy's father had left her and the boy six years earlier and has since had no contact (nor attempted any) with either of them – realizing her son needs a positive father figure in his life.
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* Billy Gilman's "Oklahoma" has a young child discovering his bilogical father in Oklahoma after having been separated from him early on.
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* Billy Gilman's "Oklahoma" has a young child discovering his bilogical father in Oklahoma after having been separated from him early on.on.
* Music/TheNotoriousBig's father left Biggie's family at a young age. He addressed this occasionally, notably on "The What."
* Music/TheNotoriousBig's father left Biggie's family at a young age. He addressed this occasionally, notably on "The What."
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* "Biological Didn't Bother", by [[UsefulNotes/NotablePlayersOfTheNBA NBA star]] and part-time rapper Shaquille O'Neal, is a simplified version of Shaq's real-life abandonment by his biological father. The track ends with the words "Phil is my father", referring to his stepfather Phillip Harrison.[[labelnote:Postscript]]After Harrison's death in 2013, Shaq's feelings toward his biological father greatly mellowed, and the two have had cordial meetings since.[[/labelnote]]
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* "Biological Didn't Bother", by [[UsefulNotes/NotablePlayersOfTheNBA NBA star]] and part-time rapper Shaquille O'Neal, Creator/ShaquilleONeal, is a simplified version of Shaq's real-life abandonment by his biological father. The track ends with the words "Phil is my father", referring to his stepfather Phillip Harrison.[[labelnote:Postscript]]After Harrison's death in 2013, Shaq's feelings toward his biological father greatly mellowed, and the two have had cordial meetings since.[[/labelnote]]
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* Music/LupeFiasco's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoLQaZEnSwo&feature=related He Say, She Say]].
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* Music/LupeFiasco's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoLQaZEnSwo&feature=related com/watch?v=V6ukY5RmL1o He Say, She Say]].
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* Music/{{Eminem}}'s father left when he was just a baby, and several songs, most notably "My Name is," "Cleanin' Out My Closet," and "Headlights," address this and express a lot of anger towards his father.
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* Music/{{Eminem}}'s father left when he was just a baby, and several songs, most notably "My Name is," "Cleanin' Out My Closet," and "Headlights," address this and express a lot of anger towards his father.father.
* Billy Gilman's "Oklahoma" has a young child discovering his bilogical father in Oklahoma after having been separated from him early on.
* Billy Gilman's "Oklahoma" has a young child discovering his bilogical father in Oklahoma after having been separated from him early on.
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* Music/{{Karina}}'s "16 @ War" begins with the line "Ain't no daddy's where I'm from, there's just mad mother's".
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* Music/{{Karina}}'s "16 @ War" begins with the line "Ain't no daddy's where I'm from, there's just mad mother's".mother's".
* Music/{{Eminem}}'s father left when he was just a baby, and several songs, most notably "My Name is," "Cleanin' Out My Closet," and "Headlights," address this and express a lot of anger towards his father.
* Music/{{Eminem}}'s father left when he was just a baby, and several songs, most notably "My Name is," "Cleanin' Out My Closet," and "Headlights," address this and express a lot of anger towards his father.
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* "Biological Didn't Bother", by [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] star and part-time rapper Shaquille O'Neal, is a simplified version of Shaq's real-life abandonment by his biological father. The track ends with the words "Phil is my father", referring to his stepfather Phillip Harrison.
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* "Biological Didn't Bother", by [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] star [[UsefulNotes/NotablePlayersOfTheNBA NBA star]] and part-time rapper Shaquille O'Neal, is a simplified version of Shaq's real-life abandonment by his biological father. The track ends with the words "Phil is my father", referring to his stepfather Phillip Harrison.[[labelnote:Postscript]]After Harrison's death in 2013, Shaq's feelings toward his biological father greatly mellowed, and the two have had cordial meetings since.[[/labelnote]]
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* In Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheWall'', Pink, the protagonist, grew up without a father because of his death overseas during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (just as lead singer Roger Waters's father did), leaving him with an overbearing mother and providing him with the very first brick in his emotional wall as mentioned in the song "Another Brick in the Wall Part 1".
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* In Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheWall'', Pink, the protagonist, grew up without a father because of his death overseas during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (just as lead singer Roger Waters's father did), leaving him with an [[MyBelovedSmother overbearing mother mother]] and providing him with the very first brick in his emotional wall as mentioned in the song "Another Brick in the Wall Part 1".
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Daddy, what else did you leave for me?''
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Daddy, what else did you leave for me?\\
Daddy, what'd you leave behind for me?''
Daddy, what'd you leave behind for me?''
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* And let us not forget Music/JohnnyCash's "A Boy Named Sue" in which the abandoned son hunts down his father for giving him that name.
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* And let us not forget Music/JohnnyCash's "A Boy Named Sue" Sue", in which the abandoned son hunts down his father for giving him that name.
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* Music/{{Everclear}}'s "Father Of Mine" is about the singer wondering how his absentee father is doing. He mentions that he won't be a deadbeat dad like his own father.
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* Music/{{Everclear}}'s "Father Of Mine" is about the singer wondering how his absentee father is doing. He mentions that he won't be a deadbeat dad like his own father.father.
* Music/{{Karina}}'s "16 @ War" begins with the line "Ain't no daddy's where I'm from, there's just mad mother's".
* Music/{{Karina}}'s "16 @ War" begins with the line "Ain't no daddy's where I'm from, there's just mad mother's".
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* "Cat's In The Cradle" by Music/HarryChapin is this trope told from the ''dad's'' perspective. It's also a bit of a TearJerker.
** Although this one is less about a truly disappeared dad, but rather about one who was emotionally distant.
** Although this one is less about a truly disappeared dad, but rather about one who was emotionally distant.
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* "Cat's In The Cradle" by Music/HarryChapin is this trope told from the ''dad's'' perspective. It's also a bit of a TearJerker.
**TearJerker. Although this one is less about a truly disappeared dad, but rather about one who was emotionally distant.
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* "Rockabye" by Clean Bandit is about a single mother trying to raise her son by herself. The father is specifically stated to have run off somewhere.
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* "Rockabye" by Clean Bandit is about a single mother trying to raise her son by herself. The father is specifically stated to have run off somewhere.somewhere.
* Music/{{Everclear}}'s "Father Of Mine" is about the singer wondering how his absentee father is doing. He mentions that he won't be a deadbeat dad like his own father.
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* In Music/{{Ayreon}}: The Human Equation the protagonist's father is a womanizing jerk who left his mother long ago. He appears in his comatose hallucination to mock him (''"Day sixteen: Loser"''), the grudge the protagonist held on him was essential in igniting his rage and letting him wake up four days later.
* A Disappeared Dad is among the {{Wangst}} (PlayedForLaughs) of Music/TheOffspring's "She's Got Issues":
-->You told me a hundred times how your father left and he's gone\\
But I wish you wouldn't call me daddy\\
When we're gettin' it on
* And let us not forget Music/JohnnyCash's "A Boy Named Sue" in which the abandoned son hunts down his father for giving him that name.
* "Hey Jude" was specially written by Music/PaulMcCartney for Julian Lennon, the oldest son of fellow [[Music/TheBeatles Beatle]] Music/JohnLennon, to comfort him over his parents' messy divorce and his father's constant absence and emotional neglect.
* "Cat's In The Cradle" by Music/HarryChapin is this trope told from the ''dad's'' perspective. It's also a bit of a TearJerker.
** Although this one is less about a truly disappeared dad, but rather about one who was emotionally distant.
* Jason Meadows's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9VwYXrbiVM 18 Video Tapes]] concerns a man who dies from an unspecified illness before his son is born. Before he dies, he makes a set of tapes-the titular 18 video tapes-to impart wisdom to his son from beyond the grave.
* In Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheWall'', Pink, the protagonist, grew up without a father because of his death overseas during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (just as lead singer Roger Waters's father did), leaving him with an overbearing mother and providing him with the very first brick in his emotional wall as mentioned in the song "Another Brick in the Wall Part 1".
-->''Daddy's flown across the ocean,\\
Leaving just a memory;\\
A snapshot in the family album.\\
Daddy, what else did you leave for me?''
* The Mexican group Mana, in the song "Relojito cucu" ("Cuckoo little clock") it's about the last moments of a kid with its father and how the family grew-up without him after the father death. By the way, lead singer Fher lost his own father as a kid, [[RealLifeWritesthePlot maybe the song its about his own story]]...
* Marie Claire D'Ubaldo's song "My father's eyes" ("Los ojos de mi padre", in Spanish) is from the POV of a girl who misses her father and angsts quite a bit about it.
* Part of the persona of [[http://www.unknownhinson.com Unknown Hinson]] is that he is named after his disappeared father: "Says right there on my birth certificate. Momma: Mrs. Hinson, Daddy, Unknown."
* Country music singer Red Sovine, whose specialty was recitations about truck drivers, recorded at least two songs about disappeared dads:
** "Giddyup Go," which actually is told through the eyes of a "disappeared dad." A No. 1 country hit in 1966, the main protagonist is a truck driver whose wife and son had left him about 20 years earlier (and provided no contact information); to the son, who was very young when his parents' marriage ended, he was a "disappeared dad" ... until the day they had a chance meeting at a truckstop, the happy reunion told in the song's climax.
** "Teddy Bear", about a young paraplegic boy who lost his father in a road accident a few months earlier. The boy, who uses his citizens-band radio to keep in contact with his father's former truck driving friends, says his dream of spending the summer on the road with his folks also died in the accident ... until the teary-eyed truckers decide to make his dream come true. The resulting song, recorded and released at the height of the CB-radio craze, was a No. 1 country smash (and minor pop hit) in the summer of 1976.
* Music/LupeFiasco's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoLQaZEnSwo&feature=related He Say, She Say]].
* [[Music/BackstreetBoys AJ McLean's]] "Sincerely Yours," a case of CallingTheOldManOut.
* A recurring motif in the works of Music/TomWaits, whose dad ran out on the family.
* "Tiberius Rising", by OoklaTheMok, is from the perspective of a father who misses his now-grown son, Jimmy, and is almost an inversion of this trope, since it's the son who was always the distant one. If you pay attention to the subtext, you'll realize that [[spoiler: Jimmy is [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries James Tiberius Kirk]].]]
* Belgian artist Music/{{Stromae}} sings of an absent father and the excuses his mother makes up in ''Papaoutai'' (a phonetic spelling of ''papa, où t'es?'', meaning ''daddy, where are you?''), while the video shows a young boy singing to his present but silent dad. This is Stromae's own story, he saw his father only a very few times in his life, and he is quoted as saying his father was already gone for him before his death.
* "Biological Didn't Bother", by [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] star and part-time rapper Shaquille O'Neal, is a simplified version of Shaq's real-life abandonment by his biological father. The track ends with the words "Phil is my father", referring to his stepfather Phillip Harrison.
* "No Man's Land" by Music/JohnMichaelMontgomery. The father is out of the picture for unexplained reasons, and the song is mainly focused on the single mother trying to raise the family by herself.
* "[=Sk8er=] Boi" by Music/AvrilLavigne has the line "Five years from now she sits at home, feeding the baby; she's all alone", which describes the unnamed girl who passed up the titular skater boy.
* In the ballad, "Waltz For My Father", the titular father impregnates the singer's mother and leaves: "And not a thing he left behind/Except for my sad blue eyes."
* Music/{{Adele}}'s ''Hello'' is one possible interpretation of this. Her father was known to have walked out on her when she was a toddler.
* "Rockabye" by Clean Bandit is about a single mother trying to raise her son by herself. The father is specifically stated to have run off somewhere.
* A Disappeared Dad is among the {{Wangst}} (PlayedForLaughs) of Music/TheOffspring's "She's Got Issues":
-->You told me a hundred times how your father left and he's gone\\
But I wish you wouldn't call me daddy\\
When we're gettin' it on
* And let us not forget Music/JohnnyCash's "A Boy Named Sue" in which the abandoned son hunts down his father for giving him that name.
* "Hey Jude" was specially written by Music/PaulMcCartney for Julian Lennon, the oldest son of fellow [[Music/TheBeatles Beatle]] Music/JohnLennon, to comfort him over his parents' messy divorce and his father's constant absence and emotional neglect.
* "Cat's In The Cradle" by Music/HarryChapin is this trope told from the ''dad's'' perspective. It's also a bit of a TearJerker.
** Although this one is less about a truly disappeared dad, but rather about one who was emotionally distant.
* Jason Meadows's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9VwYXrbiVM 18 Video Tapes]] concerns a man who dies from an unspecified illness before his son is born. Before he dies, he makes a set of tapes-the titular 18 video tapes-to impart wisdom to his son from beyond the grave.
* In Music/PinkFloyd's ''Music/TheWall'', Pink, the protagonist, grew up without a father because of his death overseas during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII (just as lead singer Roger Waters's father did), leaving him with an overbearing mother and providing him with the very first brick in his emotional wall as mentioned in the song "Another Brick in the Wall Part 1".
-->''Daddy's flown across the ocean,\\
Leaving just a memory;\\
A snapshot in the family album.\\
Daddy, what else did you leave for me?''
* The Mexican group Mana, in the song "Relojito cucu" ("Cuckoo little clock") it's about the last moments of a kid with its father and how the family grew-up without him after the father death. By the way, lead singer Fher lost his own father as a kid, [[RealLifeWritesthePlot maybe the song its about his own story]]...
* Marie Claire D'Ubaldo's song "My father's eyes" ("Los ojos de mi padre", in Spanish) is from the POV of a girl who misses her father and angsts quite a bit about it.
* Part of the persona of [[http://www.unknownhinson.com Unknown Hinson]] is that he is named after his disappeared father: "Says right there on my birth certificate. Momma: Mrs. Hinson, Daddy, Unknown."
* Country music singer Red Sovine, whose specialty was recitations about truck drivers, recorded at least two songs about disappeared dads:
** "Giddyup Go," which actually is told through the eyes of a "disappeared dad." A No. 1 country hit in 1966, the main protagonist is a truck driver whose wife and son had left him about 20 years earlier (and provided no contact information); to the son, who was very young when his parents' marriage ended, he was a "disappeared dad" ... until the day they had a chance meeting at a truckstop, the happy reunion told in the song's climax.
** "Teddy Bear", about a young paraplegic boy who lost his father in a road accident a few months earlier. The boy, who uses his citizens-band radio to keep in contact with his father's former truck driving friends, says his dream of spending the summer on the road with his folks also died in the accident ... until the teary-eyed truckers decide to make his dream come true. The resulting song, recorded and released at the height of the CB-radio craze, was a No. 1 country smash (and minor pop hit) in the summer of 1976.
* Music/LupeFiasco's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoLQaZEnSwo&feature=related He Say, She Say]].
* [[Music/BackstreetBoys AJ McLean's]] "Sincerely Yours," a case of CallingTheOldManOut.
* A recurring motif in the works of Music/TomWaits, whose dad ran out on the family.
* "Tiberius Rising", by OoklaTheMok, is from the perspective of a father who misses his now-grown son, Jimmy, and is almost an inversion of this trope, since it's the son who was always the distant one. If you pay attention to the subtext, you'll realize that [[spoiler: Jimmy is [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries James Tiberius Kirk]].]]
* Belgian artist Music/{{Stromae}} sings of an absent father and the excuses his mother makes up in ''Papaoutai'' (a phonetic spelling of ''papa, où t'es?'', meaning ''daddy, where are you?''), while the video shows a young boy singing to his present but silent dad. This is Stromae's own story, he saw his father only a very few times in his life, and he is quoted as saying his father was already gone for him before his death.
* "Biological Didn't Bother", by [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] star and part-time rapper Shaquille O'Neal, is a simplified version of Shaq's real-life abandonment by his biological father. The track ends with the words "Phil is my father", referring to his stepfather Phillip Harrison.
* "No Man's Land" by Music/JohnMichaelMontgomery. The father is out of the picture for unexplained reasons, and the song is mainly focused on the single mother trying to raise the family by herself.
* "[=Sk8er=] Boi" by Music/AvrilLavigne has the line "Five years from now she sits at home, feeding the baby; she's all alone", which describes the unnamed girl who passed up the titular skater boy.
* In the ballad, "Waltz For My Father", the titular father impregnates the singer's mother and leaves: "And not a thing he left behind/Except for my sad blue eyes."
* Music/{{Adele}}'s ''Hello'' is one possible interpretation of this. Her father was known to have walked out on her when she was a toddler.
* "Rockabye" by Clean Bandit is about a single mother trying to raise her son by herself. The father is specifically stated to have run off somewhere.
