Four years old with my back to the door
All I could hear was the family war
Your selfish hands always expecting more
Am I your child or just a charity ward?
You have a hollowed out heart
But it's heavy in your chest
I try so hard to fight it but it's hopeless
Hopeless, you're hopeless
Oh, father, please, father
I'd love to leave you alone
But I can't let you go
Oh, father, please, father
Put the bottle down
For the love of a daughter
Oh
It's been five years since we've spoken last
And you can't take back
What we never had
Oh, I can be manipulated
Only so many times,
Before even "I love you"
Starts to sound like a lie
You have a hollowed out heart
But it's heavy in your chest
I try so hard to fight it but it's hopeless
Hopeless, you're hopeless
Oh, father, please, father
I'd love to leave you alone
But I can't let you go
Oh, father, please, father
Put the bottle down
For the love of a daughter
Don't you remember I'm your baby girl?
How could you push me out of your world,
Lied to your flesh and your blood,
Put your hands on the ones that you swore you loved?
Don't you remember I'm your baby girl?
How could you throw me right out of your world?
So young when the pain had begun
Now forever afraid of being loved
Oh, father, please, father
I'd love to leave you alone
But I can't let you go
Oh, father, please, father
Oh, father, please, father
Put the bottle down
For the love of a daughter
For the love of a daughter
MEANING OF SONG
For the Love of A Daughter is the fourteenth track from 's third album Unbroken.
It was written by Demi and (the former lead singer of ) & produced by Toby Gad.
The song was originally supposed to be featured on Demi's 2009 sophomore album "Here We Go Again", but Demi & her management felt that the subject of the song would be too much for her young audience.
During an interview with Women's Wear Daily, Demi explained the reason the song was left off her second album was because:
"When I took a step back, I realized I wouldn't like those subjects being talked about in somebody else's home with a seven-year-old and their mom."
"For the Love of A Daughter" was later rewritten, re-recorded and chosen for the "Unbroken" album.
The song is about Demi's relationship with her biological father, Patrick, whom she rarely saw after her parents' divorce when she was only two years old. According to this song and her unreleased song "Open" (which she wrote when she was 13), her father mentally and physically abused Demi, her mother and her sister.
On June 23, 2013, Patrick died of cancer at the age of 53 and after his death, Demi revealed that he had suffered from mental illness. In her father's honor, she started the Lovato Treatment Scholarship program.
SITES TO SONG
Nightcore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCvvl1MZ3dU
Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNrK5RbvxFw
Lyric Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VZhI5iafH0
Karaoke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pv8OISv_jo