The world still doesn't care about girls.

We still tell them to shout fire.

We still tell them that they will be called a liar.

We say your shoulders are distracting

And we tell you that you're overreacting  

That your learning is less important than his.

Why don't we tell our boys that girls are not objects to play with

That this isn't something you'll get away with

And have it be true

The world still doesn't care about girls

They said I was confused, that I misunderstood

Is this what it means to enter adulthood?

It means we're punished for being open?

Or having to pretend we were just joking?

I wasn't a child, I was eighteen years old.

Now I carry it, it comes back around, like the flu or a cold

When it's someone you know

Someone you should be able to trust, where do you even go?

We live in a world where men think being accused

Is the same as being sexually abused.

Where if a woman says something, she's just lighting a fuse.

But I'm starting a fire because I'm sick of living in hues of gray.

I don't want to sit back and pretend I didn't lose something

And then I turn on the tv and feel sick if I watch the news

I see we live in a society where we teach girls to protect themselves

We tell them to make sure he rapes a different girl, not you.

One in three women they say, make sure it's not you.

The world still doesn't care about girls

And when we speak up, we're told he won't be punished.

So why bother saying anything at all?

We're told we won't be believed.

Well not today, not for me.

I'm tired of somedays, and maybe they'll see.

We live in a world where girls clothes are regulated

To make sure it's the boys who are educated.

We tell our girls their cases won't be advocated

That boys will be boys, and their comfort is overrated.

You're still to blame because you don't want

To be treated the way you treat women

And then you don't want to be the villain

Catcalling us on the streets

But what if it was your daughter, your mother, your niece?

Defending yourself, saying we can't take a compliment

And we have no choice but silence when you're dominant.

The world still doesn't care about girls

You walk down the street without a care

But we worry we'll be trapped in some nightmare

Make sure it isn't you.
The world still doesnt care about girls

She'll always be more drunk, showing more skin, be more alone

And when you say nothing, you don't even realize you condone it

When you say she was drunk, it was her fault,

And you're saying it wasn't really an assault

I won't be silenced,

Not in the face of this violence

Not when a boy can **** a girl and get three months

Where they can sit back and call us ****** and *****

Not when he can 'grab em by the *****'

But if I say something, they'll just shoot me down or call me pushy.

I'm tired of meaning nothing

I'm tired of them thinking touching

Without permission is their given right

And how dare we try to fight

The world still doesn't care about girls

My words demands to be spoken,

And I refuse to be broken.