About “For the Love of a Daughter”
Demi Lovato
For the Love of A Daughter is the fourteenth track from Demi Lovato’s third album Unbroken.
It was written by Demi and William Beckett (the former lead singer of The Academy Is…) & produced by Toby Gad.
The song was originally supposed to be featured on Demi’s 2009 sophomore album “Here We Go Again”, but Demi & her management felt that the subject of the song would be too much for her young audience.
During an interview with Women’s Wear Daily, Demi explained the reason the song was left off her second album was because:
When I took a step back, I realized I wouldn’t like those subjects being talked about in somebody else’s home with a seven-year-old and their mom.“
“For the Love of A Daughter” was later rewritten, re-recorded and chosen for the “Unbroken” album.
The song is about Demi’s relationship with her biological father, Patrick Lovato, whom she rarely saw after her parents' divorce when she was only two years old. According to this song and her unreleased song “Open” (which she wrote when she was 13), her father mentally and physically abused Demi, her mother and her sister.
On June 23, 2013, Patrick died of cancer at the age of 53 and after his death, Demi revealed that he had suffered from mental illness. In her father’s honor, she started the Lovato Treatment Scholarship program.
