Songfacts®:

• The title track of Rae Morris' debut album is a stripped-down piano ballad that finds the singer pining for the day when she can put the current pain in their relationship aside and live "unguarded."
• Morris told DIY magazine why she she chose to name her record after this track. "This was a song that arrived when I was trying to figure out what I was going to call the album," she explained. "I had written most of it already and I had no idea. It felt like I didn't have that piece that was important for me to say. I felt I hadn't quite nailed it yet, and I went out to America to do a writing session. I think it was being away again – being back where I made the album – it made me reflect and I realized that I just wanted to show people who I was and what I was doing"
  
  " It was really simple and really uncomplicated," Morris added. "When I wrote 'Unguarded', I actually felt like it was exactly what I had been trying to say the whole time, and it symbolized the rest of the album."