Numbers lyrics

Count up your portions count up your checks

Feeding your fam while you're coming at my neck

When you gonna freeze with the cruel dramatics

I'm not inspired by your foolish practice

Butter your bullshit, set up your fence

I'm just the chicken giving you the egg

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 led to something more magical

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

You push us past our limits just to watch decimals grow

I need a reason why I'm looked at like a joke

Until I prove you wrong like I've done time and time before and

All your idle teaching and your criticism lack the potential to

Penetrate my solid golden path to decide what my future is

I'm my own clairvoyant there's no controlling me

Imagination on ascend

Take me to Venus let m explode

I'm ready to pop like a volcano

Jump over me like you're playing hot lava

Emotions on 100,000 who's gonna

Shake me like 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 to my own concoction

Pricking all my fingertips to carve out many roads

Pushing 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

I need a reason why I'm looked at like a joke

Until I prove you wrong like I've done time and time before and

All my intuition says is expansion comes first but

Not just by material I'm talking bout in here

My heart space and my cranium must be loved too my dear

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

They replaced 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 its 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

I need a reason why I'm looked at like a joke

Until I prove you wrong which I've done time and time before and

All my intuition says is expansion comes first but

Not just by material I'm talking bout in here

My heart space and my cranium must be loved too my dear

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

• Artist:Melanie Martinez
• Album:After School EP (2020)