ALIVE/CYCLES ALBUM

I rummage around thoughts in my head, playing in the puddles of my own blood.

Grudges are normal, happiness isn’t abnormal

I don’t wanna talk right now

You don’t respect my decisions

You don’t understand my precisions

You don’t care about my standards

You couldn’t give a fuck less.

PRE-CHORUS:

They stuck a sword into my heart, my heart

And you stood there, numb and breathless

If I was in a burning house, would you just watch and see the house collapse?

Even if you were a firefighter would you fight the flames for me? (For me?)

Or would you let it take me over, like your words did

CHORUS:

“I’m alive again, I know all your secrets and all your reasons.

I learned lessons and now I’m back, you better treat me with respect.

I threw your shit outside of me window, I told you knock next time

You didn’t respect my decision

You wouldn’t accept my precision

Do I even know your intentions?

POST-CHORUS:

I’m alive, I’m alive, I’m alive, a-a-again

I’m alive, I’m alive, I’m alive, a-a-again

Breathing in toxic fumes of your own sentences

Would you break the cycle

Aren’t you sad? that my soul flocked outta that body.

Breathing into your sleeve, worthless aren’t you? like a body six feet under the ground..

VERSE 2;

Hate you, I. Hate you, I.

I hate all your texts, I miss when you were a hoax

You told me 4 years ago, when the fences opened, you’d get on the right side

You ran just like cattle, you’re so fucking fragile, or am I too casual for this?

Spitting out lines, breaking our phoneline

Call his momma up, file a divorce

You won’t even make the rules enforced

PRE-CHORUS:

They stuck a sword into my heart, my heart

And you stood there, numb and breathless

If I was in a burning house, would you just watch and see the house collapse?

Even if you were a firefighter would you fight the flames for me? (For me?)

Or would you let it take me over, like your words did

CHORUS:

“I’m alive again, I know all your secrets and all your reasons.

I learned lessons and now I’m back, you better treat me with respect.

I threw your shit outside of me window, I told you knock next time

You didn’t respect my decision

You wouldn’t accept my precision

Do I even know your intentions?

POST-CHORUS:

I’m alive, I’m alive, I’m alive, a-a-again

I’m alive, I’m alive, I’m alive, a-a-again

Breathing in toxic fumes of your own sentences

Would you break the cycle

Aren’t you sad? that my soul flocked outta that body.

Breathing into your sleeve, worthless aren’t you? like a body six feet under the ground..

Outro:

And love is found within the deep circles of hatred.

When you abused me for the last time, I broke out of my cage, and I flew free into the wind.
ALIVE is the 4th track on Melanie Martinez’s 4th studio album, CYCLES. This song is inspired by the thought of regeneration, it’s the process of re-doing, you know what you did wrong last time and you’re back to fix it, you have lessons you learned and lessons yet to learn. You came back to the conscious world to perceive your well learned lessons into others to help and heal.

The opposite of death and alive is well understood, but there’s more. Martinez puts in a Instagram Story. “ALIVE, Track 4. I really wanted people to understand that life and alive are not the same when it comes to crybaby, life was when she was first born, she was a fresh soul with no past learned lessons but many future lessons that would come. Alive is shes a conscious soul still but aware of her lessons from the life she lived before the one she currently lives in, crybaby is immortal although she was a new soul. She’s back alive in some way.”

Martinez also teased some lyrics in ALIVE, Track 4. The snippet contained Melanie’s newer bodily soul holding candles as she walked past her former school, K-12. She held a notebook with the following lyrics.

”I’m alive again, I know all your secrets and all of your reasons.

I learned lessons and now I’m back, you better treat me with respect.”

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