"Broadripple is Burning" is a song by Margot & The Nuclear So and So's that Melanie Martinez covered live.
Background[]
Melanie most likely first did this cover before she was ever on The Voice, on May 25, 2012 at the Vibe Lounge. After such, she did the song acoustically throughout her shows in 2013. But, a piano version was debuted at The Gramercy Theatre on February 15, 2014, and done once more during Dollhouse Tour rehearsals. The only other known version Melanie did was a doll-themed one, on June 15, 2014 for the Dollhouse Tour.
Lyrics[]
[Verse 1]
Children, Broadripple is burning
And the girls are getting sick
Of huffing glue up in the bathroom
While your boyfriends pick up chicks
And darling I'm lost
I heard you whispering
That night in fountain square
The trash-filled streets made me wish we were heading home
[Verse 2]
There was love inside the basement
Where that woman used to lie
In a sleeping bag we shared upon
The floor almost every night
And darling I'm drunk
And everything that I have loved has turned to stone
So pack your bags and come back home
[Chorus]
And I'm wasted
You can taste it
Don't look at me that way
'Cause I'll be hanging from a rope
I will haunt you like a ghost
[Verse 3]
If my woman was a fire
She'd burn out before I wake
And be replaced by pints of whiskey
Cigarettes, and outer space
Then somebody moves
And everything you thought you had will go to shit
We've got a lot
Don't ever forget that
[Verse 4]
And I wrote this on an airplane where the people looked like ants
And when a woman that you loved was gone
She was bombing East Japan
And don't fucking move
'Cause everything you thought you had will go to shit
We've got a lot
Don't you dare forget that
[Chorus]
And I'm wasted
You can taste it
Don't look at me that way
'Cause I'll be hanging from a rope
I will haunt you like a ghost
[Outro]
And I'm wasted
You can taste it
Don't look at me that way
'Cause I'll be hanging from a rope
I will haunt you like a ghost
[Verse 1]
Children, Broadripple is burning
And the girls are getting sick
Of huffing glue up in the bathroom
While your boyfriends pick up chicks
And darling I'm lost
I heard you whispering
That night in fountain square
The trash-filled streets made me wish we were heading home
[Verse 2]
There was love inside the basement
Where that woman used to lie
In a sleeping bag we shared upon
The floor almost every night
And darling I'm drunk
And everything that I have loved has turned to stone
So pack your bags and come back home
[Chorus]
And I'm wasted
You can taste it
Don't look at me that way
'Cause I'll be hanging from a rope
I will haunt you like a ghost
[Verse 3]
If my woman was a fire
She'd burn out before I wake
And be replaced by pints of whiskey
Cigarettes, and outer space
Then somebody moves
And everything you thought you had will go to shit
We've got a lot
Don't ever forget that
[Verse 4]
And I wrote this on an airplane where the people looked like ants
And when a woman that you loved was gone
She was bombing East Japan
And don't fucking move
'Cause everything you thought you had will go to shit
We've got a lot
Don't you dare forget that
[Chorus]
And I'm wasted
You can taste it
Don't look at me that way
'Cause I'll be hanging from a rope
I will haunt you like a ghost
[Outro]
And I'm wasted
You can taste it
Don't look at me that way
'Cause I'll be hanging from a rope
I will haunt you like a ghost
Videos[]
Trivia[]
- When Melanie covered this song on November 23, 2013 for her Acoustic Tour, people were talking over her and she said that it was her favorite song.
- However, it is unknown if it's still her favorite.