#If this doesnt convince u to listen to tma nothing will

[aykaypee]

this is THE melanie song from tcw. and i will prove why (psa i havent listened to tma in a hot sec and im not pulling up the wiki for this so)

I've earned myself a reputation / That my bark is much worse than my bite

[ mel has indeed earned herself a reputation, both in fandom and canon for her unsuccessful assasination attempts on el*as. it's literally a tiktok audio. she talks a big game and she Can deliver, she fucking ganked jon during ghost bullet surgery, but compared to the violence wreaked by someone like daisy? daisy is admittedly a more fully realised avatar than melanie was, but mel was more simmering rage given an outlet, she's not a hit first talk later person, she's threats and shouts and screams and then she'll hit. ]

But I keep snapping at Goliath's hands / With all of my tiny might

[ first of all mel is a short person second. more el*as imagery. the goliath as this enormous, insurmountable obstacle. and she chips away at him anyways, she's full of venom and vitriol and she doesn't let anything convince her that there is an answer that doesn't involve taking him down permanantly. it's just not possible. she doesn't let the setbacks stop her. ]

There are no stones at my disposal / There's no God to award me a crown

[ she doesnt have anything at her disposal to do this, there's no convenient thing that will work, nor is there any reward driving her, nothing divine. but there is something sacred. there is bloodshed promised, satisfaction at tearing down an almighty asshole. so spite will drive her. ]

But I am always swinging at / Somebody I can't knock down

[ refer to line 3-4. even in her first argument with jon, she ie arguing with someone that will not budge in their beliefs. she is trying to climb an uphill battle. this seems constant for her, with how much she does it. ]

All of the fire I've swallowed / All of the sparks that went dark in my gut / I am always burning up

[ id understand if this and the next bit were what made people think thsi was an agnes coded song but !! melanie being mocked and ridiculed for her experiences, swallowing that rage for fear of being ostracized completely or cancelled, mixed with the audience reception, and jon's dismissal, shes seething! and then she has an outlet for her anger! the Slaughter, el*as, jon, anything she can see and try to sink her proverbial teeth into ]

Dress me in red and throw your roses / And I'll rankle the beasts with words

[ ok this is also v agnes coded and ill admit i didnt know what to do here but.. i think 'dress me in red and throw your roses' is kind of . like u can see it as a combo of 'let me consumed by The Slaughter' (blood coded entity and blood is, famously, red) and 'praise me' (tying back to her youtube roots. she'll be covered in blood that she wishes to spill, a shadow on her figure and a burning in her veins and she will do everything for the eventuality of tearing at those 'beasts'. i think her and daisy should have interacted more tbh. ]

It's a graceless dance of epithets / We learn to make someone hurt

[ literally what it says on the tin all bark no bite we will learn what makes them tick and we will call them names and they will hurt . not specifically melanie coded but theyre not all gonna be winners. ]

They will consume your sweet resistance / And they'll carry your heart in their teeth / But I am always feeding them / The ugliest parts of me

[ OK SO.. OK. this isnt about The Slaughter as much as i would have said so about 5 minutes ago NO its about The Eye. well specifically the second line here is Slaughter and the rest is Eye . they will consume your sweet resistance referencing the clear joy and the .........Food that el*as and jon get from melanie's rage and statements respectively, she is always feeding them her ugliest parts, those base urges that are being fuelled on by the other entity that has a hold on her, one that carries her heart in its teeth and makes that panic of fight or die set in and she has carried the weight of fight, scream, shout in her all of her life so she knows she cannot escape. ]

All of the words I've swallowed / All of the sharp things I've kept in my mouth / I am always bleeding out

[ it is a CYCLE babe. she kept things in, she bottled it up and now she is bleeding out !!!! she is letting it all out and it is NOT healthy and she either flails around and thrashes and makes the wounds WORSE or she keeps it in again and exascerbates those wounds and continues to reopen them when it looks like they're closed. it's literally no winning unless she. oh i don't know gets a gf and TALKS ABOUT IT. ]

Take me to war / Honey, I dare you / I'll be the sweetest thing / To ever scare you

[ okay ignore the second part thats agnescoded looks at jack barnabas but . she is Looking for a fight. she wants a damn excuse to do this, to feel like this, to justify it. and if she doesn't get to play the bloodthirsty defender.... well, she'll just have to be the aggressor, then. ]

Give me a fight I can't resist / Give me something to break with my fists / Take me to war / Oh, honey, I dare you

[ same as above she's itching for something to tesr into physically or verbally or what have you and it has bubbled to the point of white hot rage boiling over and burning anything that comes near . something something desolation reference. ]

I watched a weed usurp the garden / And it poisoned the rest of the crops

[ OK SO HEAR ME OUT melanie seeing not!sasha. and everyone saying it's sasha. and knowing something's not right. with them, with It. It is not a person, It wears the façade of one and it's not even fucking correct. ]

It would take days of fighting stubborn roots / To tear the whole damn thing out

[ she is NOT gonna bother trying to convince them any more than she has tried before. and she has. and nobody has listened, and nobody knew and ahe feels like she was going crazy. so ]

So I will leave it where it's standing / And instead I will find me a match / I'll turn it all to kindling / I'll burn it all down to ash

[ shell just leave. let it grow, let it burn them from the inside out and laugh in the ashes and say 'i told you so'. something somethi g desolation but she's not personal enough for desolation . the only person she gets really personal with is jon bit that's because jon was a prick and i get that. ]

All of the ire I've swallowed / All of the coals that still sit in my gut / I am always burning up

[ babes we are back to the metaphors of simmering anger and frustration at nobody fucking listening to her, a repeated pattern throughout her whole character . nobody listens. nobody knows. and who do you gloat to, when things turn out your way? the sods stuck in apocalyptic hellscapes? the dead man? Hell Jesus and his sugar baby plus one? ]

Take me to war / Honey, I dare you

[ well, fuck it. ]

I'll be the sweetest thing / To ever scare you

[ fuck it all. ]

Give me a fight I can't resist / Give me something to break with my fists

[ they won't listen, fine. ]

Take me to war / Oh, honey, I dare you

[ she won't make them listen. they'll just see. ]

ANYWAYS after all that the real agnes/jude or agnes/jack song is tongues and teeth and agnes' tcw song is icarus . lmk if i should analyse (ish) more

Go listen to "Take Me to War" by the Crane Wives. Done? Vote.