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Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Melanie Martinez
Melanie Martinez
Lead Vocals
Tim "One Love" Sommers
Tim "One Love" Sommers
Programming
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Melanie Martinez
Melanie Martinez
Songwriter
Jeremy "Kinetics" Dussolliet
Jeremy "Kinetics" Dussolliet
Songwriter
Tim "One Love" Sommers
Tim "One Love" Sommers
Songwriter
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Tim "One Love" Sommers
Tim "One Love" Sommers
Producer
Chris Gehringer
Chris Gehringer
Mastering Engineer
Mitch McCarthy
Mitch McCarthy
Mixing Engineer

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
Always aiming paper airplanes at me when you're around
You build me up like building blocks just so you can bring me down
You can crush my candy cane but you'll never catch me cry
If you dangle that diploma and I dead you, don't be surprised
[PreChorus]
I know my ABCs, yet you keep teaching me
I say, fuck your degree, alphabet boy
You think you're smarter than me with all your bad poetry
Fuck all your ABCs, alphabet boy
[Chorus]
I'm not a little kid now
Watch me get big now
Spell my name on the fridge now
With all your alphabet toys
You won the spelling bee now
But are you smarter than me now?
You're the prince of the playground
Little alphabet boy
[Verse 2]
Apples aren't always appropriate apologies
Butterscotch and bubblegum drops are bittersweet to me
You call me a child while you keep counting all your coins
But you're not my daddy and I'm not your dolly, and your dictionary's destroyed
[PreChorus]
I know my ABCs, yet you keep teaching me
I say, fuck your degree, alphabet boy
You think you're smarter than me with all your bad poetry
Fuck all your ABCs, alphabet boy
[Chorus]
I'm not a little kid now
Watch me get big now
Spell my name on the fridge now
With all your alphabet toys
You won the spelling bee now
But are you smarter than me now?
You're the prince of the playground
Little alphabet boy
[Bridge]
Alphabet boy
Oh, alphabet boy
Alphabet boy
Alphabet boy
My alphabet boy
Ooh
[Chorus]
I'm not a little kid now
Watch me get big now
Spell my name on the fridge now
With all your alphabet toys
You won the spelling bee now
But are you smarter than me now?
You're the prince of the playground
Little alphabet boy
[Outro]
Alphabet boy
Written by: Jeremy Dussolliet, Melanie Martinez, Tim Sommers

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