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[ar:Melanie Martinez]
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[00:00.00]Piggyback - Melanie Martinez
[00:04.00]Written by:Melanie Martinez
[00:08.00]I was three years old
[00:10.07]All I wanted was the music and
[00:12.40]My parents were doing everything they could
[00:15.99]To move away from our place working over time always
[00:20.35]While I sat up in my grandma's project building coloring oh
[00:26.20]
[00:27.08]Moved to a small town and started to started to grow
[00:30.60]
[00:31.24]Poetry written I'm singing and dancing oh
[00:34.62]
[00:35.34]Photographs painting cartoons
[00:37.12]That's all I know
[00:38.86]That's all I know oh
[00:41.14]I have one best friend to this very f**king day
[00:44.87]Since we were five years old and I f**king moved away
[00:48.97]I wish I never did cause she's the only one who sees me
[00:53.65]For who I really am instead of how many I reach oh
[00:59.19]
[01:00.16]Trusted too many fake people while I was still young
[01:04.04]Gave them the benefit of the doubt I was so wrong
[01:07.99]
[01:08.60]I cut them off and they came for blood cause they know
[01:11.22]
[01:11.79]They ain't getting no more
[01:14.29]I'm so done with playing piggy back oh
[01:18.25]Swear to God I wished y'all all the best oh
[01:22.73]You're lying your way to try to gain a piece of me
[01:26.03]When you could never come close cause I know my destiny
[01:30.91]I worked hard for my sh*t
[01:32.70]Put my love in this sh*t
[01:34.73]Now you're trying to kill my name for some fame
[01:37.87]What is this
[01:38.92]Tried to help you do your sh*t
[01:41.00]Encouraged you to work on it
[01:42.98]Was a good friend and you used that to your advantage
[01:47.36]Now I'm 22 and I've had a crazy year of
[01:51.70]Isolation from all the plastic people here
[01:55.41]I cannot wait for the day
[01:57.49]I can finally move away
[01:59.72]Back to New York City where the realest people really stay oh
[02:05.58]
[02:06.34]Spent this time writing away my heart and my soul
[02:09.89]
[02:10.49]The people I surround myself with have hearts filled with gold
[02:13.94]
[02:14.77]Love and empathy are things that we hold so close
[02:18.04]Trying to learn and evolve
[02:20.35]I'm so done with playing piggy back oh
[02:24.44]Swear to God I wished y'all all the best oh
[02:29.04]You're lying your way to try to gain a piece of me
[02:32.32]When you could never come close cause I know my destiny
[02:36.75]I worked hard for my sh*t
[02:38.85]Put my love in this sh*t
[02:40.93]Now you're trying to kill my name for some fame
[02:44.10]What is this
[02:45.13]Tried to help you do your sh*t
[02:47.17]Encouraged you to work on it
[02:49.18]Was a good friend and you used that to your advantage
[02:53.48]
[03:02.00]I'm so done with playing piggy back oh
[03:06.19]Swear to God I wished y'all all the best oh
[03:10.92]You're lying your way to try to gain a piece of me
[03:14.53]When you could never come close cause I know my destiny