Unprotected Women

Verse 1

I was just a brown-skinned girl with open hands

No armor on my heart, no one understand

They said, “Be strong,” but never asked me why

I learned to swallow pain before I learned to cry

Mama busy surviving, world moving fast

I was growing up inside the aftermath

Every silence left a bruise on my mind

Every “you’ll be fine” left me behind

Pre-Chorus

I carried things a child shouldn’t know

Smiles covering wounds I never showed

I needed safety, I got survival

Love felt conditional

Chorus

I was unprotected, wide open in the fire

Grew up with the hurt, yeah it wired my desire

Some days I’m up, feel like I can touch the sky

Some nights I’m low, can’t look myself in the eye

They call it bipolar, but they don’t know

It started with a little girl nobody held close

Verse 2

I learned how to read a room before a book

Learned how to disappear with just one look

Men saw my body before my age

Took pieces of me, left me with rage

I move fast when the pain feels slow

Talk all night, then I don’t say a word for days though

Love me loud, then I run away

Scared if I stay, you’ll see the break

Pre-Chorus

I’m not crazy, I’m conditioned

From a life where I wasn’t listened

If you knew what I survived

You’d see why I’m split inside

Chorus

I was unprotected, wide open in the fire

Grew up with the hurt, yeah it wired my desire

Some days I’m up, feel like I can touch the sky

Some nights I’m low, can’t look myself in the eye

They call it bipolar, but they don’t know

It started with a little girl nobody held close

Bridge

Don’t label my pain without the story

Don’t judge my waves, you don’t know the storm in me

I didn’t wake up this way by choice

I learned to scream without a voice

If I’m too much, it’s ‘cause I carried too much

If I pull away, it’s ‘cause love never stayed long enough

I’m healing in rhythm, learning my pace

Trying to love the girl trauma made

Break (soft, half-sung)

I needed protection

I needed direction

I needed someone to say

“You’re safe”

Final Chorus

I was unprotected, but I’m still here

Turning all that pain into something real

Some days I shine, some days I ache

But I’m learning how to stay

They call it bipolar, I call it truth

A grown woman surviving what she lived through

Outro

I was an unprotected child

But I’m my own safe place now

Yeah… I’m my own safe place now