For the Love of a Daughter

Album: Unbroken (2011)
Play Video
  • 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 jut a charity award?

    You have a hollowed out heart but it's heavy in your chest
    I tried 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

    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 tried 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 our 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 Writer/s: DEMITRIA LOVATO, WILLIAM BECKETT
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Royalty Network, Walt Disney Music Company
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Mike from Park Ridge, IlIn the original LP version you can hear her crying in the end.
see more comments

Editor's Picks

Graduation Songs

Graduation SongsFact or Fiction

Have you got the smarts to know which of these graduation song stories are real?

Gary Brooker of Procol Harum

Gary Brooker of Procol HarumSongwriter Interviews

The lead singer and pianist for Procol Harum, Gary talks about finding the musical ideas to match the words.

Director Nick Morris ("The Final Countdown")

Director Nick Morris ("The Final Countdown")Song Writing

Nick made some of the biggest videos on MTV, including "The Final Countdown," "Heaven" and "Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)."

Dan Reed

Dan ReedSongwriter Interviews

Dan cracked the Top 40 with "Ritual," then went to India and spent 2 hours with the Dalai Lama.

Julian Lennon

Julian LennonSongwriter Interviews

Julian tells the stories behind his hits "Valotte" and "Too Late for Goodbyes," and fills us in on his many non-musical pursuits. Also: what MTV meant to his career.

Matt Sorum

Matt SorumSongwriter Interviews

When he joined Guns N' Roses in 1990, Matt helped them craft an orchestral sound; his mezzo fortes and pianissimos are all over "November Rain."