For the love of a daugher

For the love of a daugher
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 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
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
Oooh
It’s been five years since we’d spoken last,
And you can’t take back what we never had.
Oooh
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 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?
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 alone.

Oh Father, please Father
I’d love to leave you alone but I can’t let you go.
Oh Father
Oh Father, please Father
Put the bottle down for the love of a daughter.
For the love of a daughter.