Throughout the song, Martinez's lyrics dance along the line between empowerment and manipulation, as she urges her listener to "build her" into a being of power and strength. But as the song progresses, it becomes clear that this creation comes at a terrible cost, with Martinez's character ultimately becoming a monster, consumed by her own ambition.

Following the theme “We Can Build Her,” Melanie Marie could be a character who was physically or magically destroyed and then rebuilt. Perhaps she was a victim of the Wizard’s experiments, and now she has mechanical limbs or arcane augmentations. This draws from The Six Million Dollar Man trope – a broken individual made stronger, faster, better.

In Gregory Maguire’s Wicked , Elphaba is constructed by society as a villain. The Tin Man is made of metal. suggests a female creature—like a reanimated Elphaba or a new character.

MELANIE MARIE: “What… what am I?”

(Chorus - Both) We can build her, with every step and every fall We can build her, and make her stand tall With every piece of her, we'll make her whole We can build her, and make her soul unfold

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Throughout the song, Martinez's lyrics dance along the line between empowerment and manipulation, as she urges her listener to "build her" into a being of power and strength. But as the song progresses, it becomes clear that this creation comes at a terrible cost, with Martinez's character ultimately becoming a monster, consumed by her own ambition.

Following the theme “We Can Build Her,” Melanie Marie could be a character who was physically or magically destroyed and then rebuilt. Perhaps she was a victim of the Wizard’s experiments, and now she has mechanical limbs or arcane augmentations. This draws from The Six Million Dollar Man trope – a broken individual made stronger, faster, better.

In Gregory Maguire’s Wicked , Elphaba is constructed by society as a villain. The Tin Man is made of metal. suggests a female creature—like a reanimated Elphaba or a new character.

MELANIE MARIE: “What… what am I?”

(Chorus - Both) We can build her, with every step and every fall We can build her, and make her stand tall With every piece of her, we'll make her whole We can build her, and make her soul unfold