For the Love of a Daughter

Four years old, with my back to the door

All I could hear, was the family war

Your selfish hands

Always expectin' more

Am I your child?

Or just 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, out of your world?

Lie 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