Lyrical Stories

Little Me (Little Mix)

                     Mellisa is a young girl who is insecure and is always putting herself down. All through elementary and middle school she was always made fun of and picked on for moronic reasons. Kids would call her names, (like sasquatch, mellesbian, four-eyes, retarded, etc.) and they would call her ugly behind her back. She would tell them to stop, but they would disregard whatever she said and keep at it.

She lives in the shadow of a lonely girl

Voice so quiet you don't hear a word,

Always talking but she can't be heard

               

           To makes things even worse this was during the time when her family was struggling financially and physically (during a recession). She was a strong girl and always tried to do her best, but her best was never enough. Like a lot of people, Mellisa wanted people to think highly of her and like her, yet it was quite the opposite. In school she was not very bright and had trouble understanding the material that was being taught. At one point she was doing so bad in school that the school almost made her take special classes. *I have nothing against special classes*

 The people she grew up with were rude and didn't like Mellisa, now this may or may not be due to their shallowness of judging others by appearance, or because she was socially awkward in a way that she didn't know how to socialize with her peers.

You can see it there if you catch her eye,

I know she's brave but it's trapped inside,

Scared to talk but she don't know why

She looks back on this now and wonders why she even let those people harass her. She is strong now and forever will be because she never gave up when things got tough, never turned to self harm when she got bullied or teased.

Wish I knew back then,

What I know now,

Wish I could somehow,

Go back in time and maybe listen to my own advice

Mellisa has grown into a beautiful and intelligent woman who never takes crap from anyone, hardly ever puts herself down, and most importantly doesn't care what people think.

I'd tell her to speak up, tell her to shout out,

Talk a bit louder, be a bit prouder,

Tell her she's beautiful, wonderful,

Everything she doesn't see

She faces the problems in life with an iron fist never letting anything get in her way of succeeding. It's not just Mellisa who is picked on and made fun of at that age, but a whole myriad (bunch, many) of girls and boys who were always being messed with. They were weak and couldn't fend for themselves.

You gotta speak up, you gotta shout out,

And know that right here, right now,

You can be beautiful, wonderful,

Anything you wanna be

They were scared of what might happen if they actually fought back. Yet as these people mature into grown adolescents, they look back at everything that has happened and ask themselves.