what is the song for the love of a daughter about
For the Love of a Daughter 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.[5] 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?"[6] Indicative in the lyrics "It's been five years since we've spoken last / And you can't take back what we never had"[7] is distance that has added to the strained relationship with her father. An author from Sputnikmusic 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.[8]