POWDER lyrics

• Powder, pow-pow-powder Powder, pow-pow-powder:

  Powder is an synonym for cocaine, while efficiently tying into the album’s magical imagery as a possible reference to pixie dust.

  src: https://genius.com/28202314

• Don't wanna know where you go when ...:

  Melanie Martinez doesn’t want to know, and presumably feels guilty, about their partners drug abuse. However, she knows this is wrong. Even though she tried to ignore it, it was still prominent, and may have lead to her and Oliver Tree’s break-up, since this song is about him and many others who do drugs and try to popularize it online.

  src: https://genius.com/28746842

• Blood falling out from your nose and I'm ...:

  Nose bleeding can occur when someone sniffs cocaine, and the narrator wonders how their loved one could be doing that to themselves.

  https://genius.com/28202292

• You glamorize your pain, wear it on display:

  Martinez is likely talking about her ex-partner, Oliver Tree, who is open about substances. He’s been known to post himself doing drugs on social media – as well as indulging in other “edgy” activities – for clout and to enhance his “cool” persona, overall glamourising drug use.

  src: https://genius.com/28202207

• And I know it's a cry for help, go help ...:

  Melanie has offered Oliver Tree many options and solutions to fix his drug addiction, but he doesn’t care, and continues to turn down the path of drug abuse.

  src: https://genius.com/28746848

• Lying loud (Through it all):

  She might be referencing “BATTLE OF THE LARYNX” which is about scream fighting with somebody. The person lied to Melanie about something which she knows was a lie and they are yelling at each other now which could’ve been avoided if they told the truth.

  src: https://genius.com/28202139

• One-way street (To the sky):

  Melanie tells the addict that if they don’t clean themselves from it, sooner or later they will meet their end, which is death.

  It is a one-way street, because once things die there is no coming back.

  It is also a street to stars, because by some people it is believed that the souls of the ones who deceased rises to he sky.

  src: https://genius.com/28229680

• Eyes rollin' back to your head, and I'm ...:

  The person she’s singing to most likely overdosed at one point, and Martinez is yet again wondering how could they let themselves get to that point.

  src: https://genius.com/28203724

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Submitted by dori on 2023-04-05

Last edited by Don Juan on 2023-04-11

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Writer(s): Christopher J Baran, Melanie Adele Martinez
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