✨Melanie Martinez Lyric Book✨

「 。Numbers 。」

; This song came from After School Ep, the forth song . Enjoy !

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Count up your portions, count up your checks

Feeding your fam while you're coming at my neck

When're you gonna freeze with the cool dramatics? 

I'm not inspired by your foolish practice

Why do you bullshit? Set up your fence

I'm just the chicken giving you the eggs

Soon you're gonna see that your breath was wasted, 

Don't speak too soon on your doubts you're making

A big deal out of a little thing

Why should I try to conform to formulated paths

When clearly all my instincts lead to something more magical?

Am I just a number 'cause that seems like that's your goal?

You push us past our limits just to watch decimals grow

Oh-oh I need a reason why I'm looked at like a joke 

Until I prove you wrong like I've done a ton of times before

And all your idle teachings and your criticism lack

The potential to penetrate my solid golden paths

To decide what my future is, I'm my own clairvoyant

There's no controlling me, imagination unascended

Take me to Venus, let me explode

I'm ready to pop like a volcano

Jump over me like you're playing hot lava

Emotion on one hundred thousand, who's gonna

Shake me liked soda creme, but of course 

Use all your words to distract from the source

Of where all the growth on the paper happens

Leave me alone in my own concoction...

Prickin' all my fingertips to carve out many ro-oads

Pushin' out the petals from the bud of what I know

Am I just a number 'cause it seems like that's your goal?

You push us past our limits just to watch decimals grow

Oh-oh I need a reason why I'm looked at like a joke

Until I prove you wrong like I've done a ton of times before

And all my intuition says is 'expansion comes first'

But not just by material i'm talkin' 'bout in here

My heart space and my cranium but be loved too, my dear

Don't push me to the edge until i'm useless and can't feel

They replace their search for knowledge

With the reach of many material gains

They lack the tenderness of the sensitive 

Empathetic bodies crying from the pain

It's too late to grow their frame

Of mind it seems that it's already made

No use in arguing with someone who doesn't

Wanna prioritize birthing of creation

Am I just a number?

Am I just a number?

Am I just a number?

Am I just a number?

Am I just a number 'cause it seems like that's your goal?

You push us past our limits just to watch decimals grow

Oh-oh I need a reason why I'm looked at like a joke

Until I prove you wrong like I've done a ton of times before

And all my intuition says is 'expansion comes first'

But not just by material i'm talkin' 'bout in here

My heart space and my cranium but be loved too, my dear

Don't push me to the edge until i'm useless and can't feel