Songbook

The Daughter

Hopeful eyes of dreams and ambition
A whimsical smile on the breeze
A love so pure and absent of resentment
She should never have learnt what it meant

But something wrong behind the curtains
A pairing doomed to destroy
A cacophony of noise and emotion
A child left to thrive in the storm

But it wasn't wrong you see, everything you did helped her
You loved her and that was enough
Despite the fighting you always made her feel better
A picturesque framework of love
She needed all of your love

A little bit older and now it is over
Why are her best years her worst
She should be happy and grateful, not so much shameful
Why did you change on her

A blistering cry of bloodshot eyes
Maybe you were better off drunk
It would take away your pain, get you back in the game
she'll look after you tonight

Maybe she was too young to see, all of the things that came to be
But she just wanted you to be fine
Please stop hurting you're making her lose faith
A distorted etching of love
Why does it hurt to love

A cruel pain ensues, a purple patchwork that bruised
Why did you do this to her
She was so young, so filled with fear
Did it please you to darken her dreams

A smokescreen of colourful complexion
All you needed to control
She was never your personal pool of poison
Why did you try to say she was

You never loved her, how couldn't she see it
Every knife slips through the holes in her skin
A cold, abusive, neglectful monster
Why is it you she still loves
Is this the feeling of love

Her heart is broken, a doorway still open
Because you still sleep dormant within
Your smile full of poison, sharpness and bitter
Please don't let it seep through the cracks

A mirror has broken, you're so soft spoken
A shattered, fragmented mess
A question of self, a question of future
Is it really worth it anymore

But when you're kind to her, she finds herself worthy
she feels all the pain slip away
A cautionary tale of love and deception
Forgotten in favour of a dream
So give her a dream

It's such a shame not knowing who to blame
Was it me all along
But when you hold me is it all to control me
Or is this love after all

Do I give my life to make things feel better
A needle of pain to the flesh
I know it's unhealthy to want to be happy
Pleases don't stop loving me today