For The Love Of A Daughter

Four years old with my back to the door

All I could hear was the family you wore

Your selfish hands, always expecting more

Am I your child or just a charity ward?



PRE-CHORUS

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.



CHORUS

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

I can be manipulated only so many times

Before even, "I love you" starts to sound like a lie



PRE-CHORUS

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



CHORUS

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