This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Always talking around this,
He wants me,
I get things, everything I wanted,
My own way, your time, goldmines,
Loose guys, on my backless, dresses, exes.
I cannot help myself, I'm just doing what I do,
Got my heart set, do anything that I want so thank you,
I like it and I do what I like,
And if you do what I like, then you'll like it,
If you wanna just
Scream,
Scream your lungs out,
If you wanna just
Cry,
Cry your eyes out,
I'm not doing that
That's what I'm about.
You can cry your eyes out of your head,
Baby, baby,
I don't care, I don't care,
I don't care, I don't care,
You can cry-cry-cry again-gain-gain,
My face like a mannequin,
(Scream)
Mannequin, yea I did,
It again and again,
You can cry-cry-cry again-gain-gain,
My face like a mannequin.
You told me more than he did,
And then you were frozen, imposin',
There's no way you want me,
Watch me, trust me,
Can't impress me,
I'm not changing, I'm just
I cannot help myself, I'm just doing what I do,
Got my heart set, do anything that I want so thank you,
I like it and I do what I like,
And if you do what I like, then you'll like it,
If you wanna just
Scream,
Scream your lungs out,
If you wanna just
Cry,
Cry your eyes out,
I'm not doing that
That's what I'm about.
You can cry your eyes out of your head,
Baby, baby,
I don't care, I don't care,
I don't care, I don't care,
You can cry-cry-cry again-gain-gain,
My face like a mannequin,
(Scream)
Mannequin, yea I did,
It again and again,
You can cry-cry-cry again-gain-gain,
My face like a mannequin.
My face like a mannequin.
My face like a mannequin.
My face like a mannequin.
My face like a mannequin.
Watch me,
(Watch me, watch me, watch me,
Watch me, watch me, watch me,
Watch me, watch me, watch me,
Watch me, watch me, watch me,
Watch me, watch me)
If you wanna just
Scream,
Scream your lungs out,
If you wanna just
Cry,
Cry your eyes out,
(I'm not doing that)
That's what I'm about.
You can cry your eyes out of your head,
Baby, baby,
I don't care, I don't care,
I don't care, I don't care,
You can cry-cry-cry again-gain-gain,
My face like a mannequin,
(Scream)
Mannequin, yea I did,
It again and again,
You can cry-cry-cry again-gain-gain,
My face like a mannequin.
My face like a mannequin.
My face like a mannequin.
My face like a mannequin.
My face like a mannequin.
My face like a mannequin.
My face like a mannequin.
He wants me,
I get things, everything I wanted,
My own way, your time, goldmines,
Loose guys, on my backless, dresses, exes.
I cannot help myself, I'm just doing what I do,
Got my heart set, do anything that I want so thank you,
I like it and I do what I like,
And if you do what I like, then you'll like it,
If you wanna just
Scream,
Scream your lungs out,
If you wanna just
Cry,
Cry your eyes out,
I'm not doing that
That's what I'm about.
You can cry your eyes out of your head,
Baby, baby,
I don't care, I don't care,
I don't care, I don't care,
You can cry-cry-cry again-gain-gain,
My face like a mannequin,
(Scream)
Mannequin, yea I did,
It again and again,
You can cry-cry-cry again-gain-gain,
My face like a mannequin.
You told me more than he did,
And then you were frozen, imposin',
There's no way you want me,
Watch me, trust me,
Can't impress me,
I'm not changing, I'm just
I cannot help myself, I'm just doing what I do,
Got my heart set, do anything that I want so thank you,
I like it and I do what I like,
And if you do what I like, then you'll like it,
If you wanna just
Scream,
Scream your lungs out,
If you wanna just
Cry,
Cry your eyes out,
I'm not doing that
That's what I'm about.
You can cry your eyes out of your head,
Baby, baby,
I don't care, I don't care,
I don't care, I don't care,
You can cry-cry-cry again-gain-gain,
My face like a mannequin,
(Scream)
Mannequin, yea I did,
It again and again,
You can cry-cry-cry again-gain-gain,
My face like a mannequin.
My face like a mannequin.
My face like a mannequin.
My face like a mannequin.
My face like a mannequin.
Watch me,
(Watch me, watch me, watch me,
Watch me, watch me, watch me,
Watch me, watch me, watch me,
Watch me, watch me, watch me,
Watch me, watch me)
If you wanna just
Scream,
Scream your lungs out,
If you wanna just
Cry,
Cry your eyes out,
(I'm not doing that)
That's what I'm about.
You can cry your eyes out of your head,
Baby, baby,
I don't care, I don't care,
I don't care, I don't care,
You can cry-cry-cry again-gain-gain,
My face like a mannequin,
(Scream)
Mannequin, yea I did,
It again and again,
You can cry-cry-cry again-gain-gain,
My face like a mannequin.
My face like a mannequin.
My face like a mannequin.
My face like a mannequin.
My face like a mannequin.
My face like a mannequin.
My face like a mannequin.
Lyrics submitted by rust3dxh3art
Mannequin Lyrics as written by Harvey Mason James Fauntleroy
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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