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Artist: Melanie Martinez
Track: Detention

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I'm not a bad guy
So don't treat me bad if I'm feeling sad, alright?
Please don't be mad if I don't smile back, alright?
If I fuck up my words, don't think I'm absurd, alright?
Alright?

I'm physically exhausted
Tired of my knuckles beating
I'm chewing gum to pass this time
Sadness, can't you see it?
You're too busy seeking self-pleasures
Look at how I'm feeling
You write me up and say it's love
And I can't believe it

Hey, can you meet me tonight in detention?
I can feel your blood pressure rise, fuck this tension
Let me crawl up into your mind, did I mention?
Pretending everything's alright is detention

De-detention
De-detention
Pretending everything's all right is (shh)

The teachers don't care about me
Fuck how I feel, as long as I make money
They let them do whatever they want to me
They're the customer, I'm chopped meat
I'm chopped meat

I'm physically exhausted
Tired of my knuckles beating
I'm chewing gum to pass this time
Sadness, can't you see it?
You're too busy seeking self-pleasures
Look at how I'm feeling
You write me up and say it's love
And I can't believe it

Hey, can you meet me tonight in detention?
I can feel your blood pressure rise, fuck this tension
Let me crawl up into your mind, did I mention?
Pretending everything's alright is detention

De-detention
De-detention
Pretending everything's all right is detention

I wanna go home and you say, "Now is not the time"
Fuck being all alone in back of the classroom, ah
Stop calling up my phone, trying to say that I've been out of line
When all I ever asked was to go to the bathroom

Hey, can you meet me tonight in detention?
I can feel your blood pressure rise, fuck this tension
Let me crawl up into your mind, did I mention?
Pretending everything's alright is detention

Tonight
I can feel your blood pressure rise
Let me crawl up into your mind
Pretending everything's alright (is detention)
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Melanie Martinez – Detention
“Detention” is the tenth track from Melanie Martinez’s sophomore album, K-12. A snippet of the song was released through an interactive game on July 9th, 2019 and was later posted
Melanie Martinez – Detention (Demo)
[..]Up and say it's love / And I can't believe it / Baby, can you meet me tonight in detention? / I can feel your blood pressure rise, fuck this tension / Let me crawl up into your
Melanie Martinez – Detention (Clean)
[Verse 1] / I'm not a bad guy / So don't treat me bad if I'm feeling sad, alright? / Please don't be mad if I don't smile back, alright? / If I mess up my words, don't think I'm
Melanie Martinez – Nurse's Office
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Melanie Martinez – Show & Tell
“Show & Tell” is the fourth track from Melanie Martinez’s sophomore album, K-12. The track details Melanie’s struggle with becoming a public figure and being forced into the
Genius Traducciones al Español – Melanie Martinez - Detention (Traducción al Español)
[Letra de "Melanie Martinez - Detention (Traducción al Español)"] / [Verso 1] / No soy una chica mala / Así que no me trates mal si me estoy siento triste, ¿bueno? / Por favor no
Genius Traductions françaises – Melanie Martinez - Detention (Traduction Française)
[Couplet 1] / Je suis pas une mauvaise personne / Donc ne me traite pas mal si je me sens triste, d'accord? / S'il te plaît ne t'énerve pas si je ne te souris pas en retour, d'
Melanie Martinez – K-12 Tour Setlist
[Main Event] / ◦ "Wheels On The Bus" / ◦ "Class Fight" / ◦ "The Principal" / ◦ "Show & Tell" / ◦ "Nurse's Office" / ◦ "Drama Club" / ◦ "Strawberry Shortcake" / ◦ "Lunchbox Friends
Melanie Martinez – Class Fight
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Melanie Martinez – Strawberry Shortcake
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Melanie Martinez – Orange Juice
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Melanie Martinez – High School Sweethearts
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Melanie Martinez – Lunchbox Friends
“Lunchbox Friends” is the eighth track from Melanie Martinez’s sophomore album, K-12. In the track, Melanie details her aversity to fake friendships. On May 17th, 2016, Melanie
Melanie Martinez – Recess
“Recess” brings Melanie Martinez’s sophomore album K-12 to a sweet, fairytale close. In the album’s accompanying film, “Recess” plays during a nightmarish ball, where K-12 students
Melanie Martinez – Wheels on the Bus
“Wheels on the Bus” is the opening track to Melanie Martinez’s sophomore album, K-12. The track plays while Cry Baby, Martinez’s character in the K-12 film, is on a bus ride to “
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Genius Brasil Traduções – Melanie Martinez - Detention (Tradução em Português)
[Verso 1] / Eu não sou uma vilã / Então não me trate mal quando eu estiver triste, tá legal? / Por favor, não se irrite se eu não sorrir de volta, tá? / Se eu escolher as palavras
Melanie Martinez – Teacher's Pet
“Teacher’s Pet” is the eleventh track from Melanie Martinez’s sophomore album, K-12. The track details an inappropriate relationship between a student and a teacher in which he
PopToonsTV – PopJustice - Billie Eilish (Raven Eilish) vs Melanie Martinez (Melanie Marchantress)
Narrator: Raven Eilish / Billie: there's no time to die. you know for me anyways (opens wings) / Narrator: Melanie Marchantress / Melanie: I'm gonna pacify her. hahaha / Narrator
Genius Traductions françaises – Melanie Martinez - Orange Juice (Traduction Française)
[Couplet 1] / Oh, oh, tu l'enfonces dans ta gorge / Je regarde depuis la salle de bain pour m'assurer que je ne M'étouffe, m'étouffe pas avec les propos que tu dis / Quand tu cries
Melanie Martinez – K-12 (Movie Script)
“K-12” is a theatrical film directed and written by Melanie Martinez. It follows the same name of Martinez’s sophomore album K-12. The story is about Crybaby (Melanie Martinez
Genius Traductions françaises – Melanie Martinez - Teacher’s Pet (Traduction Française)
[Couplet 1] / J'ai surpris le professeur faire les yeux doux à un étudiant / Charnue, plutôt mignonne, et elle mord ses lèvres pour lui en retour / Elle ronge ses ongles et ses
Melanie Martinez – The Principal (Clean)
[Verse 1] / Sneaky, greedy, money seeking / Always peeping, Wierdly creeping / Got it on the down low / So you think you always squeaky / What if I had told your mother / Her son
Melanie Martinez – Class Fight (Clean)
[Verse 1] / It was the middle of class and the teacher wasn't lookin' / Kelly had fat grass and trouble was cookin' / She had a boy wrapped around her finger tight / I fell in love
Melanie Martinez – Recess (Clean)
[Verse 1] / I was too young to see the truth / In my grandma's lap, I'm drowning in her perfume / Too naive to even care / 'Bout the words she whispered while she brushed out my
Melanie Martinez – Lunchbox Friends (Clean)
[Intro] / Oh-oh no, oh-oh no / Oh-oh no, oh-oh no / [Verse 1] / They said, "Hey, girl, will you sit with me? / Table in the back, Cafeteria C / We can be friends if you want to be
Melanie Martinez – Show & Tell (Clean)
[Verse 1] / You pull me by my hair so I don't go nowhere / Tell me you love me, but you treat me like I'm never there / You say the cruelest words, they use to break my heart / '
Melanie Martinez – Highschool Sweethearts (Clean)
[Chorus] / Can we just be honest? / These are the requirements / If you think you can be my one and only true love / You must promise to love me / And damn it, if you hate me over
Melanie Martinez – Nurse's Office (Clean)
[Verse 1] / Don't cut me, punch me, just let me go / Into the nurse's office where I float away / I'm pale as the loose-leaf paper they grow / From hollowing out all my lungs in
Melanie Martinez – Wheels On The Bus (Clean)
[Verse 1] / I'm just looking out the window and it's cold outside / There are two boys yelling behind me and I'm terrified / Counting trees as they pass me by / And I'm trying not
Melanie Martinez – Teachers Pet (Clean)
[Verse 1] / Caught the teacher giving his eyes to a student / Pouty, pretty cute, and she bit her lip back to him / Chewing on her nails and her pens while she's dreaming of him
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Melanie Martinez - Detention Lyrics
This is about having to pretend everything's alright and that it's literally hell, or, as implied in this song, "pretending everything's alright is detention".
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