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title: "My Dad Sucks"

meaning: "Dragon Ball $d Gohan grievance pop: other kids have human fathers not from space: why'd you leave me, suicide took King Kai and Bubbles, kamehameha to your face."

year: 2020
release: "Dragon Ball $d"
releaseType: "album"

artist: "Scoobert Doobert"
artistId: "#scoobert"

credits: "Written, performed, mixed, and mastered by Luke Francis Walton. Featured vocals by Nick Belcher. Album art by Grizzard Graphics."

spotify: "https://open.spotify.com/album/7q5q0RcMxVHR381gS3r1ri"
apple: "https://music.apple.com/us/album/my-dad-sucks-feat-gohan-nick-belcher/1500711275?i=1500711376"

themes: ["Dragon Ball Z", "Gohan", "Goku", "fatherhood", "hip-hopera", "parody"]

isrc: QZFZ42072644
isrcSource: soundexchange
lyrics: |
  (Other kids have got)
  Human fathers not from space
  Human fathers not from space
  Human fathers not from space
  (Other kids have got)
  (Wow wow)
  (Other kids have got)
  Human fathers not from space
  Human fathers not from space
  Human fathers not from space
  (Other kids have got)
  (Sorry)

  Why'd you leave me out to dry
  Why'd you leave me here to cry
  Why did you not come back to me?

  When you committed suicide
  You took King Kai and Bubbles' live
  Met some girl out on Snake Way

  Always train in outer space
  Kamehameha to your face 
  Why did you not come back to me?

  Human fathers not from space
  Human fathers not from space
  Human fathers not from space
  (Other kids have got)
  (Sorry)
  Human fathers not from space
  Human fathers not from space
  Human fathers not from space

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Track eight on [*Dragon Ball $d*](/albums/dragon-ball-d/), **feat. Gohan & Nick Belcher** on streaming. Luke wrote, played, mixed, and mastered; **Nick Belcher** sings. **Gohan** is the joke credit: [Spotify lists him](https://open.spotify.com/album/7q5q0RcMxVHR381gS3r1ri) as a featured artist, but it's a meta gag about Gohan hating Goku, not a real third vocalist. The savior of the previous track gets recast here as a deadbeat dad.

The hook is playground envy (*human fathers not from space*) over pop-punk *sorry* ad-libs, and the verse is a straight grievance list about training absences and emotional abandonment. The bridge is where the kid logic gets dark: Goku's noble self-destruction in the Cell saga becomes *when you committed suicide / you took King Kai and Bubbles' live* (the *live* spelling is the writer's, kept), and *met some girl out on Snake Way* turns afterlife errands into infidelity. The worst dad in the universe is also the strongest.

Next: [*A Real Monster / Vegeta's Sacrifice*](/songs/a-real-monster-vegetas-sacrifice/), Belcher's third feature, back to drama.

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