“My friends don’t

walk they run” Her friends, are suggested to be more outgoing and different from others. The emphasis on each syllable is on friends, walk and run.

Skinny dip connotes a mischievous atmosphere. The rabbit hole is a reference to Alice and Wonderland. This play on the lyrics, suggests a contrast between the childhood story and an adult twist.

This is the first reference to drug taking that the lyrics have put forward. The helium part, makes me think of the high frequency that the voice becomes etc. So maybe when portraying this image I could Use a distortion of some sort to show this.

“Skinny dip in rabbit

holes for fun”

“Getting High off

helium”“Poppin’ Poppin’

balloons with guns”

There is a clear emphasis on the onomatopoeic word ‘pop’.

Again, there is a form of juxtaposition in the lyrics, balloons connotes a sort of

children's party. Whereas the reference to the gun

suggests another adult way to ruin childhood.

“We paint white roses red”

Again, another reference to Alice and Wonderland. However, in this context it comes across as a rebellious sign instead. “Each shade from a different persons head”Suggesting from the persons blood, giving the whole context and eerie message.

“This dream, dream is a killer”

“Getting drunk with a blue caterpillar”

The dream she is referring is her as Alice and wonderland being her dream. Dream also suggests that it isn’t a nightmare, suggesting secretly that she loves it. She will want to continue in her alternate reality.

Again, there is a juxtaposition between childhood stories and adult reality. The caterpillar is an intertextual reference to the film/book Alice and Wonderland. The word drunk stand out for obvious reasons, so potentially this could be signified using special effects or lighting to show the intoxication.

“I’m peeling the skin off my face”

This is rather coded, and can be two different things. It may mean that she is

having a worrying high off a particular drug and actually is peeling skin off her face. Or it could resemble a mask, that she is no longer

afraid of taking off. Her mask is what she thinks people want to see, and herself being crazy is what’s hiding underneath. Emphasis is on the peeling, which again has long vowel

sounds. This must be an emphasis in my video.

“Cause I really hate being sane”

This is backing up my point about a mask, she’s saying she hates to feel and act as

though she were normal. The obvious image you get from this statement is a mental

patient. This is almost a torment for her.

“The normals refer to everyone else in society. The social ‘norm’, the idea that they scare this girl suggests she feels like she doesn’t fit it. Afraid also connotes that she is powerless, it is also more sensitive than scared. Creating an actual sense of sympathy when looking into the lyrics.

By saying this, there is a paradox. By intending to say that normal people scare her so she mingles with other misfits that then becomes normal. The word ‘crazies’ doesn’t depict good thoughts, it suggests a group of social outcasts with very strange appearances and attitudes.

“I’m nuts, baby I’m mad”Almost like a self diagnosis, she admits that she isn’t normal, which therefore conveys a sense of addiction behind the statement. It also shows a slight disregard for the seriousness of psychosis. The term ‘nuts’ is used, which shows the level of seriousness is reduced.

This is suggesting that she is the worst behaved out of all of her friends. Showing the level of her craziness. The emphasis in this line

would be ‘you’ve’, because it can directly influence the audience, therefore gratifying their needs.

“Tell the something is wrong” Psycho is more of a common term

to describe a woman who has

security issues in todays terms. So

this could mean that she’s very

full on and a bit much for some

people.

She’s saying that she needs to be diagnosed because she feels as though she is actually mentally ill. It shows the severity of her illness. This conveys emotions of concern.

This means that she is

mentally not stable, she

seems to put emphasis on this

throughout the song. ‘Bonkers’ is

also a slang term used for being

insane. Which puts a sort of light effect

onto the idea that she is mentally unstable. In the

song there is a natural emphasis on ‘Bend’ this

may change how I portray this line in the lyrics

and the making of the video.

“Over the

bend, entirely

bonkers” That was back when she was pushing her true

self away, so her friends didn’t like her for that. Now that she has accepted that she’s

crazy, her friends like her more. It could also show that she is involved in the wrong crowd,

per say, and that the people she hangs out with (that do drugs and get high) encourage

her to be crazy and do crazy things that might not always be sensible, but now that there

are people that somewhat accept her, she’ll do anything to prove that she’s crazy and that

its ok.She is proud of herself, she doesn’t care what people say or think about her. So she is saying that her secret of being crazy, isn’t a big deal anymore now she’s taken off her mask and now she's just being who she really is.

Reference to a quote by Alice herself:

“You’re entirely bonkers. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the

best people are.”also, this is possibly an

indication that she thinks being crazy is fine / she is in

denial. She has convinced herself that being crazy

is fine.

She so crazy she’s asking for a prescription from the doctor,

but for some reason the doctor doesn’t seem to see anything wrong, the second

line is her explaining her craziness. In this line, she may

be referring to her friend as the doctor. Her friend doesn’t seem to see anything wrong

with her, and Melanie is trying to tell her friend that

she actually is crazy.

Alice is a normal girl who when at a tea party with the Mad Hatter thinks his ways are strange and wrong for not

being like her. So Crybaby has come to terms with not being

normal and is telling others that they can stick to being normal and she will do her

own thing.This is also a sharp contrast to

the previous lines- the first three lines try to convince the

doctor that Crybaby needs medication, but she snaps

after the third, sinking into the Alice in Wonderland delusion.