This is neither horrible nor fake. And your interpretation of the song is so short sighted, people have other crap to sing about other than love. This song was written to convince her father to have open heart surgery or else he would die. "could we fix you if you broke?" and shes just sharing all her memories of him to show him how much he means and how she would never enjoy life if he left. "i'll never sing a song, won't even sing along". Get with it people!