Too bad you knew me.
I wasn't ready.
I wasn't ready.
Did I say come and get me?
Too bad I held on when you tried to tell me,
This was wrong.
This was wrong.

I am no masterpiece where innocence is painted green
Isn't it strange to think how you created all of me?

[Chorus]
Done by the hands of a broken artist
You painted black where my naked heart is
Now I finally know what wrong is
Carved like a stone with hands still shaking
On display through a soul still breakin'
Aren't you proud you're the one that made me?

You can't erase these, lines you can't save me
You can't display me, you know what dismay means
Can't even try to
Remember what I knew
Before I became your model to claim no

I grew tired
You expired
You finished me
Now that I'm all that you planned
What do you think?

[Chorus]

(I won't ever let you fall, I'm no masterpiece at all)



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"Masterpiece" as written by Meg Frampton

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    General Comment:I think this song is about a girl who fell head over heels for a guy..and he finnaly gave her a chance..and she wasnt fully "created" and once he broke her heart she was "fully created"... to him she was just "another girl" but to her he was her creator and someone she had deep feelings for... even though he "tattoed" his black finger prints on her already shattered heart.. she just cant stop loving him cause he was her "creator"... he took a little peice of her heart unintetionally.. he may not realize how he created a masterpeice because he's blinded by his own life..as she waits for him...she feels as if false hope is better then no hope at all...love can really change your prospective on life..wheither he/she realizes it..
    Flag xxkmmlxxon May 26, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:It sounds like a controlling or abusive relationship to me.
    Flag alisynon May 12, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:I know that Meg and Dia like to write songs about stories that are already written.
    I think this is about Frankenstien
    Flag pencilcaseon February 14, 2010   Link
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    General Comment:Yep... i relate to this 100%. and this just now, was the first time i listened to the song. i dated someone for a year, and he was my first serious relationship. he hated how i was because he hated anyone that was different than him, (he drank all the time.. did drugs). he pushed and pushed until i became like him. and when i finally cracked and became willing to jump up at his will, he dropped me and i broke like a dozen eggs.
    I tried all i could to keep him. made crazy, desperate attempts to keep him, and get him back.. he continued to deny me.
    "Too bad I held on...when you tried to tell me. This was wrong..."
    Now i'm just like him.. and had i met him in this point of time, i believe we would have had an even more dysfunctional relationship.. but perhaps we would have remained together for more than a year.
    "Too bad you knew me. I wasn't ready. I wasn't ready. Did I say come and get me?"

    being with him, no doubtedly changed me. he riddled my heart, and left me with the blood on my sleeves, he denys what he made.
    "Isn't it strange to think how you created all of me?"
    Flag bbyxbearon December 12, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:It's about a girl who didn't feel she was good enough for a guy, so basically completely changed herself for him without even meaning to. Now, she's dealing with the repercussions of her actions; he is seeing through her and angry that she would change herself so much.
    Flag alisynon December 06, 2009   Link
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    Memory:For me, this song will always remind me of meeting someone I had been crushing on for a very long time (a few years, actually) before I wanted to. We became friends, and not lovers, because I wasn't really much of anything then. It was too bad that they knew me before I was ready, because now, I'm so much more than I used to be. In part, it's because of them; they made me want to BE better than I was then. But it's too late; I'll never be more than a friend to them, and they'll always mean much more to me. In a sense, they made me better by knowing them. I know that's not the actual meaning of the song, but, that's what I associate my crush with.
    Flag Fionnon November 14, 2009   Link
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    General Comment:I agree with lisa_dancer24. This is definitely a song about a girl losing her virginity to a guy who has changed her. "Too bad you knew me" In the like 1800's to "know" someone meant to have sexual intercourse with them, and so, when you consider that, the line "Too bad you knew me, I wasn't ready," sounds wayyy different than originally.
    Flag Roboboogeyon September 19, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:moondreamer7

    if you are refering to the lyrics posted being incorrect, they are almost exactly right (to the official version anyways), the only part off is that instead of saying "this is wrong" twice at the beginning, it says "Well, is this wrong?" the second time. and at the end, they forgot to put "Too bad you knew me. I wasn't ready. I am no masterpiece at all".

    As I said, I am going by the official version of the song, but of course there are many versions of a lot of Meg and Dia's songs floating around out there, but these lyrics are almost exact.
    Flag skeptikalon May 12, 2008   Link
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    General Comment:i love this and i agree the girl was changed
    and this has so many wrong lyrics
    Flag moondreamer7on December 14, 2007   Link
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    General Comment:it's about a girl being changed buy someone, and that person pretty much created her by stealing her innocence

    "Can't even try to remember what I knew. Before I became your model to claim no."
    It was like it was who she was all along, and she couldn't remember who she used to be.

    Anyways, it reminds me of a movie called white oleander because it is about a girl who is at first innocent but then her mother kills someone and gets sent to jail, so she lives in numerous foster homes and gets exposed to things she hadnt been exposed to before.
    One part in the movie made me make this connection.
    It was when she was living with a different family and one of the girls that lived with her was sneaking out of the house at night, and so she kind of looked at her with an innocent "why are you doing that" expression and she just says "Dont look at me like that. Youre exactly like me, you just dont know it yet."

    So the song and the movie have similar meanings. In both they lose their innocence, wich is referred to in the song as a masterpeice. And this song helped me understand the movie too.
    Sorry if this is a bit confusing
    Flag emily_dianeon September 28, 2007   Link

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