Brandon Melchez tells the story behind the song to Songs for Whoever:
”‘Crybaby Demon’ was our first experimentation with latin rhythms. We took a percussion sample from a salsa record and basically wrote the song around it. The title was pinched from a Charles Plymell poem and the words were sort...
[Verse 1]
Crybaby demon with her plastic rose
Did she let thorns tear her up head to toe?
Fallen angel, sorrow with her perfume rose
It slithers like a snake into her nose
[Chorus]
And she gets so high, she gets so high
She don’t even notice me when I pass her by
And she gets so high, she gets so high
She don’t even notice me when I pass her by
[Verse 2]
She’s the saint of garbage, lying in her bed
Did I let her holiness go to my head?
She’s the virgin, sorrow, swallows up my trash
For now she’s wide awake but soon she’ll crash
[Chorus]
And she gets so high, she gets so high
She don’t even notice me when I pass her by
And she gets so high, she gets so high
She don’t even notice me when I pass her by
[Outro]
Down on the street, I’m just another creep
Down on the street, that’s where we meet
Crybaby Demon was written by Brandon Welchez, Charles Rowell, Marco Gonzalez, Robin Eisenberg.