Mark Hall has served as a youth pastor since the early 1990s. During this time, he has had to minister to numerous young girls without a father at home. He told NewReleaseTuesday: "More times than I can count, I have watched these girls grow up and look elsewhere, trying to find the love that's missing at home. It's a sad journey that often scars them."Hall has tried to be a spiritual father to these teenagers, but he believes the absence of a dad, "seems to be the problem in most every situation." The chorus of this song came to him one night at a restaurant. He explained: "I had spent time with some of my students that day, and their familiar plight gripped me until these words came out. Throughout the song, the girl tells her story as she's growing up and trying to reassure herself: 'It's OK, it's just another birthday. He's not here but he will be next time.'"
Hall explained that the song has two purposes. "Hopefully, it'll shake up some fathers and remind them of their true priorities. But it's also meant but to encourage kids out there who don't have an involved dad here on Earth. I wanted to remind them that God is the Father to the fatherless."
Sixteen finds me
Blowing out candles and making wishes
And all around me
Is everyone but the one I'm wishing for
And he sent me flowers
And gift-wrapped excuses
From a daddy whose daughter
Wants to see him again
And I know, I know
It's just another birthday
But I guess I thought
This would be the one
When he would call me, see me
Hold me and free me
But it's just another birthday
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