Melanie Martinez: Teddy Bear Meaning
Teddy Bear Lyrics
With cotton and feather
Gave you love, put my heart inside you
Oh what could I do
When you started talking in your sleep
Saying things you'd do to me
I didn't care
I wasn't scared
Now I'm finding knives...
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#1 top rated interpretation:I interpreted that the song is about toxic/abusive relationships as one of the lyrics 'How did love become so violent?'
Another lyric 'Everything was so sweet till you tried to kill me.' This expresses that the abuser used to be 'nice' and that he tricked her that he was 'charming and caring' but in reality he just tricked her so it would be harder for her to leave. 'Till you tried to kill me' shows that he abused her so much, it came to a point where he was trying to kill her. The song is called teddy bear as the abuser was 'caring and loving' and his soft hugs were like a teddy bear used as a metaphor. -
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#2 top rated interpretation:Crybaby is in an abusive relationship with the same boy from "Pacify Her", "Playdate", "Training Wheels" and later on "Cake". She helped through the stuff that happened before and during "Training Wheels" and now she is getting abused by him. In the song she sings "When you started talking in your sleep/Saying things you'd do to me/I didn't care/I wasn't Scared/Now I'm finding knives" Which means that at first Crybaby wasn't scared, until she realized that her boy friend wanted to kill her.
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#3 top rated interpretation:I think the song is about a abuser and melanie/crybaby. The lyric "Everything was so sweet until you tried to kill me" is about how he abused her from the start (aka when training wheels was a thing) in training wheels the lyric "call me f**king dumb for the stupid s**t I do" is how he didn't care for her when training wheels was a song. So in pity party book thing "she invited him and all her friends" him was probably the guy in training wheels. (This is just my theory)
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It is about karma and murder so crybaby was in fear
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It's a abusive love, he was sweet at first but then he started hiding knifes and crumpled paper's under the bed.she didn't worry and thought it was a joke, but then she got scared and kicked him out,a few months later maybe he started breaking into her house.BYEEEEE(sorry if my grammar is wrong)
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It started when she fell in love with a guy the guy is her teddy bear the guy used to be nice caring the gave her warm hugs like a teddy bear until she found out he started putting knives under his bed sheets she soon realized he tried to kill her then she called the cops quickly until he got out he started stalking her
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like everyone else is saying, the song is about an abusive boyfriend. the teddy bear is crybabys boyfriend, but later on in the song, he became abusive and he showed how evil he can be. crybaby soon realized that he was abusive after he talked about trying to kill her, that didnt make her too worried although when she found out he knives under the sheets she gained concern. after she kicked him out and broke up with him, he soon began to stalk her and break into her home.
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teddy bear is about an abusive relationship at first everything was going well but then it changed at first he started showing small red flags and but then it started worse hence the lyric "When you started talking in your sleep Saying things you'd do to me I didn't care I wasn't scared but now I'm finding knives under the sheets crumbled photographs of me I'm in despair should I be scared?" then she ran away she didn't hate him she still loved him she just didn't know him he changed hence the lyric "threw u out I didn't outgrow you I just didn't know you" but now he is back and she is scared
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Teddy Bear is a song about one of Crybaby’s relationships that was loving and caring. It all seemed perfect until further into the relationship, where Crybaby started to find knives and crumpled/ruined photographs of her, and became terrified. It had turned into an abusive relationship.
‘Teddy Bear, you were my teddy bear. You were comforting and quiet, how did love become so violent?’ The boy was sweet at first, she doesn’t understand why he changed so much and became abusive. ‘Teddy bear, you were my teddy bear. Everything was so sweet, until you tried to kill me.’
This is my interpretation, sorry if I have gotten anything wrong! -
This song is about domestic violence. It's about a woman, likely Cry Baby, that started dating a man. She thought that he was kind and gentle, but then he started talking about his plans. She thought it might've been something else, or a joke, but then she found out that he was crumpling pictures of her and hiding knives under his bedsheets. The lines "Threw you out/I didn't outgrow you/I just didn't know you" might mean that she got him arrested. "Now you're showing up inside my home/Breathing deep into the phone" might mean that she started getting creepy and intimidating phone calls from him.
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Crybaby thought she found the one till she sees all the stuff hes done but thinks its a joke and goes on with it till it reaches him wanting to kill crybaby.
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i think the song is about crybaby thinking that her relationship with a guy is wholesome and sweet, but then he starts acting weird. she brushes it off and doesnt care, meanwhile he starts acting weirder to the point where he turns violent. she kicks him out of the house, thinking shes okay, but he returns and tries to kill her :)
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In my opinion, this song is just about betrayal. Probably about a former lover, who betrayed them and became abusive., hence the lyric: “Why did love become so violent”
Also, i feel like she used the teddy bear theme for 2 reasons.
1, Teddy bear is a cute nickname to give a lover
2, A teddy bear would be a nice gift to receive from such lover. -
This song is about domestic violence. The teddy bear is the boyfriend. At the beginning he is sweet and comforting, then he starts talking in his sleep, saying what he'd do to CryBaby. She wasn't scared. Then she broke up with him because he was creepy, and he started breaking in her house and calling her breathing in the phone. She was "fucking scared" I assume he killed her.
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In my opinion, her "boyfriend" is the "teddy bear" and "everything was so sweet until you tried to kill me" in this line she is stating that her "boyfriend" is abusive and is trying to kill her.
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Crybaby's ex-boyfriend used to be comforting and quiet, but now he's anything but. Crybaby is terrified of him, as he keeps trying to kill her.
The whole song is Crybaby asking him why he's doing this, and begging him to stop. -
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