Demi Lovato: For the Love of a Daughter Meaning
Song Released: 2011
For the Love of a Daughter Lyrics
All I could hear was the family war
Your selfish hands always expecting more
Am I your child or just a charity award?
You have a hollowed out heart
But it's heavy in your chest
I try so hard to...
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#1 top rated interpretation:This song is a song about her childhood and her splochy relationship with her dad.
Her dad WAS an abusive alcoholic. she had to watch as he beat her mom and over-drank, as her parents fought, and as her family fell to bits.
She's never had a great relationship with her father, she's asking her father to think about all he's screwed up and all whom he's lost, begging him, even though it may be too late now, to rethink his actions and love her as his daughter yet again.
She's asking her father if simply loving his daughter is a good enough reason to give up his addiction to alcohol and cease his abusive actions!
AMAZING, TOUCHING, RELATABLE (FOR SOME) SONG! -
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#2 top rated interpretation:Demi lovato role model. My parents got divorced, then my 18 mounth old brother died. And my own best friend told everyone my dad killed him. The only thing that got me through the day was putting on demi lovato music.
I dont care what people say to me demi lovato is my role model forever. -
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#3 top rated interpretation:This song is meant to tell the story of demi's biological father and her relationship with him, they never had a great relationship, not even a good one, her father is an alcoholic, and he was never a part of her life, it all started when she was young, like she says in the song "four years old" she was only four when her family was fighting and the divorse was going though, though her life she basicly had to live with her father drinking, hitting her, and just taking her money that she got from singing and acting "am i your daughter or the charity award basicly she is saying that her father only wanted to be around her for her money that she is getting, and he would keep lying to her once again saying that he loved her just for money! she wants him in her life even after everything she has done to her but she wants him to put the bottle down for her daughter to love him! "so young when the pain had begun" this song shows how strong she is and how truely cruel people in this world can be even to the most deserving people (sorry for the spelling errors)
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i just wanna say that Demi is so strong and she really inspires a lot of girls who go through this. i don’t have much experience with this, but just shoutout to all the girls/guys/others who have survived and endured this! you are strong and THANK YOU for not giving up!!! I appreciate what Demi does and she really inspires a lot of young teens and others. This song helped me get through depression when i was 11/12.
I hope that whoever is reading this and thinking about ending it, doesn’t bc you are strong and worthy!!!
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great song. reminds me about how my step-dad doesn't care that much about me. i'm 11, turning 12 in on June 22nd,and yeah. great song. (I might kill my ex)
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when i was like 5 yrs old while my brother was 2 yrs younger than me and we both had to go through somuch pain and depresion. i had a harsher childhood than my brother my mom and dad would just fight. i tried so hard not to cry almost every night. before even when i was first born child (my mum was pregnent with me so she was taken to hospital) but my dad came there to find out that his forst child was a girl he would start abusing me and my mom (not sexually but domestically) my brother, my mom and i would beg for him to stop but he was a heartless freak. my parents almost got divorced but didn't. considering that my mom had two childern to look after , and she still needed my father.but however my family doing a bit alright altough he would only pay attention to my brother just because he is a boy. my fater would only love me if i get good grades , just like in the song the line says:-"am i you're child? or just a charity award" i can relate to it so much! sorry for whoever who is going through this!
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I like this song my mother and father have no moery to take care for me so they what to get me merry or send me by my sister_ in_ law who does not live down here.
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well my dad left when I was 4 years old and I'm 11 turning 12 in 2 weeks and I often consider suicide but I don't cuz I have a future and I presently had to go live with my dad for weeks cuz my mom beat me and I was miserable and I haven't seen/ talked to m father for 1 month I miss him so god damn much and I cry myself to sleep a lot so yea...
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My father would beat me till I was brusied because I was a girl and not a boy he didnt want me and beat up my mother too.
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I have had the crappest life ever. This song litterally explains half of it. And don't know how to amit I've been hurt by someone who suppose to love me. But that isn't the scariest part of it. The fact I am so much like him scares me even more cause I don't want to hurt anyone I love. But I am strong, and I have been in MANY fights. So I'm what people call dangerous. But I never ment to loose control. I promised myself that I would never be like him, but when I get angry, the person I hurt looks at me the way I look at him. People have hurt me and I have hurt people. That is why my life is falling apart. And I'm only 12... I don't know why I started writing This down. Just seeing how everyone else has been through this as well, just made me want to share my story. Even if I am ashamed of it. I just want others to know, no matter what you are going through, you will find some one who knows what you are going through and you will help each other. Just keep going. There is hope. Even when your mind is telling you the only option is to end it. End your life... Don't cause if you do, you Will never find that one person who will help you. I have found mine, and even if they haven't been through what I have been through, they care about me and I care about them. We are the reason we are alive. We keep each other going. And everyone will find that someone, just wait. Trust me. Cause I have been there with you. Just know there are people out there who care about you. Even if you don't relise it. Thank you for reading my testimony.
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My dad left me whenever I was three years old. I always prayed for my mom and father to get back together. But I'm just dreaming. I don't like seeing him. But I guess I have no choice.
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The song chronicles Lovato's relationship with her estranged birth father, who she rarely saw after her parents divorced when she was two years old. In the song, she pleads with her father to "put the bottle down" and questions him: "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?" Indicative in the lyrics "It's been five years since we've spoken last / And you can't take back what we never had"is distance that has added to the strained relationship with her father. An author from Sputnik music interpreted it as a song about her relationship with her alcoholic father who didn't seem to see her as a good enough reason to stop drinking and be there for her when she needed him.- FROM WIKIPEDIA
Harry Potter? Hello?!?! Whoa you are so happy and so excited, Congrats girl!
- Me? Having The Time Of My Life ( my name) -
I can relate because my dad left and i cry and pray every night that he will love me again but i know that i am only chasing a fantasy that wont come true and im only 11.
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When I was younger, my dad was a wonderful father. Or so I thought. Now, 14 years later, I have discovered that he was always a selfish manipulator who sexually abused my mom. My parents have recently gotten divorced, and It has been such a hard time for me. I have finally seen my dad's true side. He has become rude, and I have started to doubt his love for me ("even I love you sounds like a lie"). I am in so much pain and I hate him so much, but I still love him, and I wish he could have been how I thought he was.
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My father was also an alcoholic man.. he used to beat up my mom and me when i was a baby .. he didn't wanted me from the beginning so he tried to kill mom .. he also tried to sell me or to give me to someone ele ..
cuz we were poor and he still was drinking .. mom was the only one who had a job ..
well .. at last .. he lost us .. and just now he realise that he was a jerk .. and only when i was 12 he said that ,,yes is my daughter '' .. but it was too late .. i hate him so much for what he done to my mom and me .. but .. i still love him somehow .. i hate this feeling .. and he doesn't even call me .. since when i was 12 years old until now ehrn i'm almost 17 .. he was a just a ghost in our live's ... and even if it wasn't true .. i wanted to think that he loved me ..
now i have a step father and i love him and he have good care of us ...
and now here i am .. i'm singing thank's for my mom .. but just for fun even if i love to sing but i'm to shy to do it in public , i'm writing my own lyrics ...
so yeah .. i admire Demi ..
i want her to know that us.. the people who have those kind of problems we are together and ready to help each other . -
I can relate to this song so much. My father abused my brother, mom and I. Both physically and emotionally but now hes gone but he still haunts me. He was so manipulative. He is an alcoholic and I asked him to stop for me and the rest of ny family but he said tgat is a cop out for my behaviour. Whatever that means. He doesn't realise that what he is doing is wrong and hes losing us. He would always come to our house for money and he sexually harrasses my mom. I hate him so much much but i love him too. I just want a normal father and yeah i relate to this song so much.
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I was abused by my dad for over 7 years.I'm 15years old now. I was very young when it began..My mom,little sister and i..We have suffered a lot. My dad was an alcoholic. 2 months ago,he started drinking A LOT MORE THAN USUALLY. So,My mom decided that we are going to go to my grandmother's house for a weekend..We decided to be there a week..When we came home..When we opened the front door..There he was..He had died..He was 39 years..He looked very bad..Even though i hated my dad..I miss him.
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I honestly think this song is about an abusive father. I think he also sexually abused her because she says so young when the pain had begun and forever afraid of being loved. she cant trust another man because of what her father did to her. this song is extremely sad, I'm actually going to sing it at my schools talent show next year and every time I practice it tears spring to my eyes, because I can totally relate to it 100%. this song is a message to everyone stand up! to violence ,rape ,and alcoholic abusive fathers. your not alone.
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