For the Love of a Daughter

Album: Unbroken (2011)
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  • 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

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