Lyrics

# **SOMEBODY’S DAUGHTER**

**Hook — Low, Smoky Vocal**

Somebody’s daughter
Walking home with two heartbeats
Whole world passing by her
Like pain don’t walk these streets

She barely knows herself yet
Now somebody calls her mama
Everybody sees the stomach
Nobody asks about the trauma

Somebody’s daughter
Somebody should’ve caught her

**Verse 1 — Restrained Melodic Rap**

She was fifteen in the tenth grade
Reading three years underneath
Not because she wasn’t brilliant
Home just never let her sleep

Mama worked the graveyard hours
Daddy’s name stayed off the lease
Older brother doing county time
Grandma barely kept the peace

She wore jackets through the summer
Kept her backpack near her waist
Teachers marked her down for sleeping
Never asked what kept her awake

The boy said he would stand beside her
Till the pregnancy came real
Then his number disconnected
Like responsibility had bills

She stared down at two blue lines
In a gas station restroom stall
Pressed both hands against her mouth
So nobody could hear her fall

**Hook — Ghostly Background Harmonies**

Somebody’s daughter
Walking home with two heartbeats
Whole world passing by her
Like pain don’t walk these streets

She barely knows herself yet
Now somebody calls her mama
Everybody sees the stomach
Nobody asks about the trauma

Somebody’s daughter
Somebody should’ve caught her

**Verse 2 — Conversational Confession**

Her mother found the clinic paper
Crumpled underneath the sink
Started yelling out of terror
Before either one could think

Said, “How could you let this happen?”
She said, “Mama, I was scared”
But fear don’t always speak correctly
When survival raised the parent

The church ladies held a meeting
Called her choices disrespect
Same women knew her family
Still nobody brought a check

School transferred her to evening
Said her condition caused distraction
Translation: hide the evidence
So nobody asks what happened

She started folding baby clothes
Inside a drawer with missing rails
Still had algebra on Tuesday
And a court date for the male

He was nineteen when they met
Told her she was grown for her age
Funny how predators call girls women
When they’re trying to escape blame

**Bridge — Cracked Notes, Breathy Ending**

Don’t call her fast
When nobody taught her safe

Don’t call her lost
When every road removed its name

A child carrying a child
Still needs somebody to stay

**Verse 3 — Weary Singing into Rap**

The baby came in early winter
Six pounds, breathing like a fight
She named him after her grandfather
The only man who treated her right

Hospital sent her home with pamphlets
Two diapers and a warning sheet
No crib waiting in the bedroom
Just a mattress near the heat

She learned hunger had two voices
Hers got quiet when his cried
Made formula last till Friday
Watered portions late at night

Started missing school completely
Took a shift at seventeen
Cleaning rooms inside a hotel
Where nobody knew her dreams

One night she held that sleeping baby
Looked at him and whispered low
“I’m gonna give you what I needed
Even if I never know”

That promise sounded beautiful
But promises still need support
Love can’t pay for transportation
And hope don’t settle court

So when you see a young girl struggling
Don’t reduce her to one choice
Ask what happened before the pregnancy
Ask who never heard her voice

**Final Hook — Layered Requiem Harmonies**

Somebody’s daughter
Still walking with two heartbeats
Trying to build a future
From the ruins underneath

She became somebody’s mother
Before life could finish raising her
Everybody judged the outcome
Nobody came to rescue her

Somebody’s daughter
Somebody should’ve caught her

**Outro — Near Whisper**

They called her irresponsible.

But responsibility
Was all she carried.

A baby.
A household.
Her mother’s disappointment.
A grown man’s absence.
A school system’s rejection.

She was never just
A teenage pregnancy.

She was a child
Surrounded by adults
Who noticed too late.

And by the time
Everybody started asking
What went wrong—

She was already
Trying to make sure
It didn’t happen
To her son.