For The Love Of A Daughter

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FOR THE LOVE OF A DAUGHTER

Four years old with my back to the door, 

All I could hear was the family or 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 (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 

(So many times) 

Before even "I love you" 

(Before 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 love 

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

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Title: For The Love Of A Daughter

Album: Unbroken

Writer: William Beckett, Demi Lovato