"Alone Baby" is the opening and title track by Melanie Martinez and Nico Collins for their collaboration album, Alone Baby. It is a mashup of Alone by Nico Collins and Cry Baby by Melanie Martinez
Lyrics[]
Bold= Nico
Eight years old and he’s kicking and screaming
“I’ll only go to school if you give me a reason
The kids are really mean and I already know all the things
they’re teaching”
You take things so hard
And then you fall apart
Showing up late but he makes it to class
Just to stare out the window and the clock in the back
He daydreamed away to a sky so gray
Everything’s simple, it’s driving him mental
Those cry baby tears
Come out of the dark
Someone's turning the handle
To the faucet in your eyes
You're pouring out
Where everyone can see
He does all that he should
Why is he misunderstood?
This is a story bout a broken boy
With his headphones in just to block out the noise
Cry baby, cry baby
So you laugh through your tears
Wondering if it gets better
Or if he’s always gonna feel empty forever
So he gets lost tryna find another way back home
As he walks the world alone
You just let them drown
Cry baby, Cry baby
Fifteen years and he’s drowning his sorrows
Smoking weed, drinking cheap liquor out the bottle
With a bunch of fake friends cuz he tried to fit in but it wasn’t working
You told yourself that
It's not you, it's them
Don’t you know nobody will ever understand
The person that you are, learn to hold your own hand
Get your shit together and lose the weight
You’ll never be what you want, no not with that face
But those cry baby tears
Keep coming back again
Someone's turning the handle
To the faucet in your eyes
You're pouring out
Where everyone can see
He does all that he should
Why is he misunderstood?
This is a story bout a broken boy
With his headphones in just to block out the noise
Cry baby, cry baby
So you laugh through your tears
Wondering if it gets better
Or if he’s always gonna feel empty forever
So he gets lost tryna find another way back home
As he walks the world alone
Cry baby, cry baby (alone)
You just let them drown
Cry baby, cry baby (alone)
You just let them drown
I look at you and
I see myself
And I know you better
Than anyone else
Who is he kidding, surely not himself
But sometimes he wonders if there’s somebody else
Thats takes the same road, but he’ll never know
Cuz he walks the world alone
This is a story bout a broken boy
With his headphones in just to block out the noise
Cry baby, cry baby
So you laugh through your tears
Wondering if it gets better
Or if he’s always gonna feel empty forever
So he gets lost tryna find another way back home
As he walks the world alone
Cry baby, cry baby (alone)
I just let them drown
Cry baby, cry baby (alone)
You just let them drown
They call you cry baby, cry baby (alone)
I just let them drown
Cry baby, cry baby (alone)
You just let them drown