Protect My Peace

**[Intro — Talking]**

Yeah...

Everybody got an opinion

But ain't nobody carry my pain

Ain't nobody fight my battles

So if I seem distant...

If I move different...

Just know I earned that

**[Hook]**

I done survived things I don't talk about

Made it through storms they know nothing about

Now I'm protecting everything I fought to keep

My peace too expensive, it don't come cheap

Too many nights I was lost in pain

Had to find my way back again

Now I walk like pressure every damn day

And I wish a bitch would try to take my peace away

**[Verse 1]**

Mind racing every night, couldn't get no sleep

Too much pain inside, cut too damn deep

Kept my struggles quiet, suffered in silence

Trying to find peace in the middle of violence

People only see the woman that I became

They don't know the battles attached to my name

Every scar got a story, every tear left proof

I survived some shit that would've broke you

**[Pre-Chorus]**

Too many lessons, too many scars

That's why I keep my circle small

If it mess with my peace, it gotta go

I learned that the hard way, now I know

**[Hook]**

I done survived things I don't talk about

Made it through storms they know nothing about

Now I'm protecting everything I fought to keep

My peace too expensive, it don't come cheap

Too many nights I was lost in pain

Had to find my way back again

Now I walk like pressure every damn day

And I wish a bitch would try to take my peace away

**[Verse 2]**

I don't chase people, I let 'em go

If the love ain't real, then it gotta go

Ain't no more begging for somebody to stay

If they want the door, I'ma let 'em walk away

See my heart got stronger from every scar

Now I know exactly who the real ones are

And every lesson made me wiser than before

Can't nobody break what survived the war

**[Pre-Chorus]**

Too many lessons, too many scars

That's why I keep my circle small

If it mess with my peace, it gotta go

I learned that the hard way, now I know

**[Bridge]**

I carried pain that wasn't mine

Stayed too long, crossed too many lines

Now I'm choosing me

And that's the difference

The old me would've stayed

The new me walking away

**[Final Hook]**

I done survived things I don't talk about

Made it through storms they know nothing about

Now I'm protecting everything I fought to keep

My peace too expensive, it don't come cheap

Too many nights I was lost in pain

Had to find my way back again

Now I walk like pressure every damn day

And I wish a bitch would try to take my peace away

**[Outro — Spoken]**

Some scars don't disappear...

You just learn how to carry them

Some memories don't fade...

You just learn how to live with them

But peace...

Peace is something you fight for

And baby...

I fought hard for mine

*(Soft guitar fades out)*

Yeah...

I fought hard for mine

And anybody that don't like it...

Can get the fuck on