[Intro – whisper + wind pipes + distant choir]
(childlike voice)
I was just a child…
Yeah… I was just a child…
(echo)
Chains… chains… chains…
[Verse 1 – slow rap, dark, heartbeat drum]
Yeah I was just a child, born into chaos and noise
Didn’t get dolls and dreams, just survival and void
Chains on my wings from the second I breathed
Couldn’t rise, couldn’t fly, just a soul on its knees
Night time screams, fists through the walls
Daylight pain, no one to call
Mentally torn, physically worn
A child in a war before I was born
Sexualised young, never given a choice
Had a story to tell but they silenced my voice
No safe hands, no one to guide
Just a broken little kid trying hard to survive
Sex, drugs, Harley’s and rock n roll—
Yeah that’s my name… that’s what I was told
SDHAR… yeah that’s what she gave
What a mum… what a name… what a life to pave
[Pre-Chorus – melodic, haunting]
Where was the love… where was the care…
Where was the one who was meant to be there…
I called for help but no one came…
Just silence… and a lifetime of pain…
[Chorus – BIG choir + trance drop]
🔥
I was just a child in chains
Living through the darkest pain
No one came, no one stayed
Left me drowning in the flames
But I rise… yeah I rise from the scars you gave
I’m the voice of the kids you never saved
Hear me now, I won’t be denied
You tried to break me… but I survived
🔥
[Verse 2 – confronting, steady flow]
I asked for help, got shut right down
“Stop that noise, don’t hang around”
Told me it’s normal, told me it’s fine
While I was breaking inside my mind
At twelve years old… yeah I still remember
Cold hands, cold world, lost in December
She put a needle in my arm, said “this will heal”
But it just blurred the pain… didn’t change what I feel
Used it to twist me, control my head
Left me confused, left me misled
Every hit, every word that cut me down
Turned my whole world upside down
All I wanted was my mum to care
But she turned away like I wasn’t there
Protector gone, replaced with fear
And I carried that weight year after year
[Bridge – soft piano + child vocal echo]
All I wanted… was a hug
All I wanted… was love
All I wanted… was to feel safe
Like the kids in the dreams I’d escape
I learned from stories what mums should be
The ones who fight… who set you free
Not break you down, not turn away
Not leave you lost in the darkest place
[Chorus – full power, layered choir]
🔥
I was just a child in chains
Screaming through the silent pain
No one came, no one stayed
Left me drowning in the flames
But I rise… yeah I rise from the scars you gave
I’m the voice of the kids you never saved
Hear me now, I won’t be denied
I was broken… but I survived
🔥
[Verse 3 – emotional, rising strength]
Tried to leave but got pulled back in
Same old cycle, same old sin
Every door just slammed in my face
Trapped in time, trapped in place
Family saw but they looked away
Told me “you’ll be fine one day”
But they never felt what I felt inside
Never saw the nights I cried
Still I stand… yeah still I breath
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