Overprotected - Britney Spears

I need time (time)

Love (love), joy (joy)

I need space (love)

I need me (action!)

Say hello to the girl that I am

You're gonna have to see through my perspective

I need to make mistakes just to learn who I am

And I don't wanna be so damn protected

There must be another way

'Cause I believe in taking chances

But who am I to say

What a girl is to do?

God, I need some answers

What am I to do with my life?

(You will find it out, don't worry)

How am I supposed to know what's right?

(You just gotta do it your way)

I can't help the way I feel

But my life has been so overprotected

I tell them what I like, what I want and what I don't

But every time I do, I stand corrected

Things that I've been told

I can't believe what I hear about the world

I realize I'm overprotected

There must be another way

'Cause I believe in taking chances

But who am I to say

What a girl is to do?

God, I need some answers

What am I to do with my life?

(You will find it out, don't worry)

How am I supposed to know what's right?

(You just gotta do it your way)

I can't help the way I feel

But my life has been so overprotected

I need time (love)

I need space

(This is it, this is it)

I don't need nobody tellin' me just what I wanna

What I, what-what, what I'm gonna (I need)

Do about my destiny

I say no-no, nobody's telling me just what I wanna do-do

I'm so fed up with people telling me to be

Someone else but me (action!)

What am I to do with my life?

(You will find it out, don't worry)

How am I supposed to know what's right?

(You just gotta do it your way)

I can't help the way I feel

But my life has been so overprotected

I don't need nobody tellin' me just what I wanna

What I, what-what, what I'm gonna

Do about my destiny

I say no-no, nobody's telling me just what I wanna do-do

I'm so fed up with people tellin' me to be

Someone else but me

What am I to do with my life?

(You will find it out, don't worry)

How am I supposed to know what's right?

(You just gotta do it your way)

I can't help the way I feel

But my life has been so overprotected