| Melanie Martinez – Dollhouse Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| Basically, the song is from a little girl's perspective.Her mother gets drunk a lot, so her daughter won't see her in pain/crying because of the father cheating (and possibly abusing) on her. The little girl cuts in the kitchen, because she is lonely and ignored in the family. She does this daily, hoping one day someone will come into the kitchen concerned about her, but nobody else does.Whenever the family goes out in public, she feels like she's forced to smile, and forced to stand by them (Like in a picture). Her "dollface" is what she does around other people-faking a smile. The wall paper "glistens" because her eyes are filled with tears, so whenever she stares at her wall all she sees are blurry glistening lines. Her "curtains" are also like a mask for her: covering everything up (like her scars from cutting, and her emotional scars). She feels like she's living in a dollhouse, being controlled by someone else by strings. She wishes life could be more like her dolls perfect. But it isn't. She doesn't think it's fair to be so young, but have to see things that nobody else at school has to see/go through. Nobody ever listens to her problems, and nobody even comes to check on her if she's okay. Her mom's looks are starting to be affected by the alcohol she was addicted to, but she has such expensive and luxurious clothing that nobody even notices anymore. One day, her mother finally comes to check on her daughter, who is upstairs in the attic cutting herself. She hears her mother on the steps, and hurriedly puts on a "Innocent Face" so her mother doesn't suspect anything is wrong. One day soon they WILL see her cutting. And that's what she's afraid of. Finally one day at school, she just can't take it anymore and opens up to one girl, and tells her she want to commit suicide. After school, she does. Her family finally snaps out of the trance they've been in for years--thinking that everything is okay. But she still doesn't want anyone to know about her imperfect family. | |
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