Song Description

This is a country tune with a male vocal, lamenting the choice to run out on a relationship when the girl got pregnant.

Lyrics

I wonder what that little boy is feeling every day
Before he came into this world his Daddy went away
He never even knew him, don't even know his name
Maybe they'll meet up someday

Momma never talks about that man that she once knew
Photographs and letters still unopened, out of view
She just keeps on doing what she thinks she has to do
To see them through another day

Her diary's missing pages - they were torn out and burned
Her memories are locked away, painful lessons learned
She sometimes hangs the phone up having never said a word
Then she tells that boy it'll be okay
And the only thing that he might ever know
Is from a song he hears on the radio (and it goes like this)

I cry on Father's Day
'Cause once I ran away
From a girl with frightened eyes
And a change-your-life surprise
What different lives today
Had I not run away
Some folks cry at weddings
But I cry on Father's Day

Like a message in a bottle cast into the sea
Maybe through the airwaves he'll hear this awkward plea
I pray that he'll forgive and that he'll maybe start to see
That I'm sorry it turned out this way
'Cause the only thing that he might ever know
Is from a song he hears on the radio

I cry on Father's Day
'Cause once I ran away
From a girl with frightened eyes
And a change-your-life surprise
What different lives today
Had I not run away
Some folks cry at weddings
But I cry on Father's Day

Some folks cry at weddings
But I cry on Father's Day