Meaning of Naked

I wrote "Naked" about the effects body shaming can have on people and the effect it had on me. I am not a skinny person, I usually have a bit of excess weight around the stomach area, but that was especially true when I was younger. The song starts out with

"Tell me again, Everything that's the wrong with me"

I thought that was a powerful way to start out the song because that sort of teasing and harassment doesn't just happen once, it happens over and over again. Which I always found to be the worst part, because the more those words are repeated to you the more you believe them. Or the harder it is to brush them off. The song then continues to

"Say it again, You're doing just so much to help me"

I made sure to add this line in because I wanted to address the fact that most of the people who were teasing me thought they were helping me out by pointing out how fat I am. That if I knew then I could somehow get better. The Chorus of Naked is truly my favorite part because I love being able to use two meanings of a word at once.

"I'm never truly naked, Always guarded and always clothed."

By this of course I meant I never felt truly comfortable in my physical skin but also I never truly trusted those around me to not be judging me about my weight as well.

"You could say I'm a fool for thinking, But I think you know, Exactly what you do to me."

This line was very important to me because I felt like whenever I called people out on the hurtful things they were saying, I would be told that I am imagining it or they never said such a thing. But they would continue to do and say those things to me.

"Where am I now, that you're gone, You might not be right beside me, But that doesn't change anything."

The second verse really focuses on the aftermath of teasing. How even though I may not see those people anymore or hear those types of things it still has an impact on me.

"And now I'm never naked"