Grammy-nominated pop superstar Olivia Rodrigo has had one of the biggest suggest stories of the last half of a decade. The actress and singer-songwriter has sold more than 36 million albums around the globe, sold out world tours and multiple tracks in Spotify’s coveted Billions Club, and today, she released her hotly anticipated third album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love.
The album follows up 2021’s SOUR and 2023’s GUTS and breaks the mold in a way ways, departing from what came before it in both title and substance, leaning into a more experimental sound inspired by her time in London, and even featuring legendary artist Robert Smith of The Cure. The album also includes some of Olivia’s most gut-punching and evocative lyricism to date, and below we’ve collected all of the star’s greatest lyrics, from the new album and her albums of the past, to use as Instagram captions.
For the ones who makes all the love songs make sense:
“You know all the words to ‘Just Like Heaven’ and I know why he wrote them now that you’re standin’ right here.”
-“drop dead”
For knowing them online before you knew them in person:
“One night I was bored in bed and stalked you on the internet. It’s feminine intuition.”
-“drop dead”
For not being sure you’d survive their lips:
“The most alive I’ve ever been, but kiss me and I might drop dеad.”
-“drop dead”
For when they’re almost too beatiful to be true:
“You’rе so, so pretty, boy, I’m paranoid I made you up.”
-“drop dead”
For wishing they’d make the first move:
“I’ve been droppin’ hints all night that I’d love if you held my hand.”
-“drop dead”
For going for it, despite your lack of compatibility:
“Pisces and a Gemini, but I think we might go really nice together.”
-“drop dead”
For feeling down in the big city:
“New York City’s never looked so blue.”
-“stupid song”
For when commitment is freeing:
“They say that honest love is a cage that makes you feel free.”
-“stupid song”
(‘Drop Dead’ via Olivia Rodrigo)
For feeling like you don’t measure up:
“And all the girls at this party are so cool. That’s never been a thing that I could do.”
-“stupid song”
For the person who stands out in every room:
“You’re a spark in the dark and my clothes all caught aflame. You should feel how I feel when somebody says your name.”
-“stupid song”
For knowing nothing will adequately express how you feel:
“I feel right, I feel wrong, I feel totally insane, and I want you more than any stupid song could ever say.”
-“stupid song”
For being afraid of how they’d react to your inner thoughts:
“I’m too shy to say what I see when I dream of you.”
-“stupid song”
For finally watching yourself recover:
“So I guess that it’s true. Time can heal even the worst of wounds.”
-“honeybee”
For dreading the thought of them going away:
“I hope I never see what your face looks like going.”
-“honeybee”
For when your unlucky streak seems to finally be finished:
“Pick me up, walk me home, and it feels likе God threw me a bone.”
-“honeybee”
For feeling extra unproductive:
“My day was so mundane, I don’t think I left the house. Drank a pot of coffee, tried to write, nothing came out.”
-“maggots for brains”
For when even a weekend can’t pick you up:
“Somehow, it’s the weekend. I’m still bored out of my skull.”
-“maggots for brains”
For going out when you didn’t feel like it:
“I went to a party but only on principle.”
-“maggots for brains”
For not feeling much of anything:
“Empty, look at me.”
-“maggots for brains”
For dearly missing your special someone:
“I’m a sad shell of a woman and I’ve got maggots for brains. But that’s just a thing that happens when my when my baby goes away.”
-“maggots for brains”
For wanting to call them about every little thing:
“Everything that’s funny, I wish I could tell to him.”
-“maggots for brains”
For needing to be rescued from your melancholy:
“Sometimes, at a low point, I even wish for a tragedy ’cause I know hе’d come over and take rеal good care of me.”
-“maggots for brains”
For when they’re the only thing on your mind:
“What can I do but think of you?”
-“maggots for brains”
For when a boy with a cute haircut steals your heart:
“I think that you’re killer with your floppy hair.”
-“u + me = <3”
For falling hard and fast:
“All of my girlfriends roll their eyes and tell me to take it slow this time.”
-“u + me = <3”
For wanting to carve your initials everywhere:
“You plus me equals a heart forever.”
-“u + me = <3”
For when you’ve never felt like this before:
“I like you better by a million times.”
-“u + me = <3”
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For watching someone try to move in on your man:
“It’s a little hard to stomach all your amateur moves. You know he’s with me, like obviously.”
-“my way”
For when someone’s trying to mess up your happy relationship:
“You’re in my way now. Don’t go, go where you don’t belong.”
-“my way”
For when they can’t take a hint:
“Kind of insane how you keep calling, but you never get the message.”
-“my way”
For the cute baby pics of your boyfriend:
“It’s funny when your mom shows pictures of you in your school clothes. your buzzcut, and scrapes on your knees changed, but those eyes I still know.”
-“purple”
For when a new place becomes home:
“And it’s crazy how I used to visit your town like a tourist. Now I got a local grocery store and a favorite florist.”
-“purple”
For being unable to consider anything but the one you love:
“It’s a small world when it only can revolve around us two.”
-“purple”
For continuing to compare, despite your healthy relationship:
“All the pretty girls in the foreground of my mind. I thought I’d done enough, but they keep moving the line.”
-“the cure”
For realizing love can’t fix everything:
“I thought I found the antidote this time.”
-“the cure”
For when insecurity gets to you, even with help:
“But my head is full of poison, and my heart is full of doubt. I got toxins in my bloodstream, you tried hard to suck ’em out.”
-“the cure”
For needing to know if their heart will wander:
“All that I want is to know undoubtedly that you just have eyes for me. Could you make it clear?”
-“begged”
For realizing you never got anything without asking:
“Nothing’s quite enough, when I know that to gеt it, I begged.”
-“begged”
For when everything feels stagnant:
“I have this thought when I lay in bed at night that I feel trapped inside my life.”
-“begged”
For sitting around, hoping for something different to happen:
“I’m a penny in a fountain just waiting on my luck to change.”
-“begged”
For feeling seized by heartache you can’t mend:
“I’m just searching up my symptoms, desperate to fix ’em. I’ll do anything.”
-“what’s wrong with me”
For getting caught in a cycle:
“‘Cause lately I’ve been spiraling, oh I’m not feeling like myself and nothing ever seems to help.”
-“what’s wrong with me”
For understanding your significant other is to blame:
“I can’t eat, I can’t sleep. I think you’re what’s wrong with me.”
-“what’s wrong with me”
For struggling to get out of bed in the morning:
“I feel it again, edge of the bed, body and head protesting.”
-“less”
For waiting, doing nothing, until the situation improves:
“Maybe it’ll fix itself tomorrow, but I’ve been saying that like every night.”
-“less”
For wanting to stay, despite everything:
“If loving me means letting go and wishing me the best then I guess I wish, I wish, I wish you loved me less.”
-“less”
For knowing they must recognize the change in you:
“You’ve seen me truly happy, so you know right now I’m not.”
-“less”
For finding yourself with the wrong person:
“He wasn’t smart or funny, I convinced myself he was.”
-“expectations”
For finally cutting him off:
“I thought that he was perfect, and now his number’s blocked.”
-“expectations”
For learning to demand what you deserve:
“I am so evolved. Now I ask for more and more and more and more and more.”
-“expectations”
For refusing to lower your standards:
“I’ve got big expectations. I’ve got real big expectations.”
-“expectations”
For wishing it hadn’t gone on like it did:
“I regret you and how long I stayed. I resent you for not being brave.”
-“cigarette smoke”
For recognizing when something no longer fits you:
“I thought that we played the perfect couple ’til you didn’t want the part.”
-“cigarette smoke”
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For that close-up shot of an unusual detail:
“I pay attention to things that most people ignore.”
-“all-american b****”
For making the night your playground:
“I make light of the darkness.”
-“all-american b****”
For acting like a typical kid:
“I know my age and I act like it.”
-“all-american b****”
For finding where you belong :
“I know my place and this is it.”
-“all-american b****”
For when you’ve been extra tearful lately:
“I’m pretty when I cry, oh, all the time.”
-“all-american b****”
For when your ex starts stirring up old feelings:
“And I know we’re done, I know we’re through but, God, when I look at you…”
-“bad idea right?”
For when your head is empty and full at the same time:
“Can’t hear my thoughts like blah-blah-blah.”
-“bad idea right?”
For going to the same party as someone you should avoid:
“Seeing you tonight. It’s a bad idea, right?”
-“bad idea right?”
For being unable to ignore your feelings any longer:
“I only see him as a friend (the biggest lie I ever said).”
-“bad idea right?”
For celebrating the cutest guy around:
“I’m sure I’ve seen much hotter men, but I really can’t remember when.”
-“bad idea right?”
For not watching to play catch-up:
“Hate to give the satisfaction asking how you’re doing now.”
-“vampire”
For when you put your love in the wrong place:
“I loved you truly. You gotta laugh at the stupidity.”
-“vampire”
For seriously regretting letting someone into your life:
“I’ve made some real big mistakes, but you make the worst one look fine.”
-“vampire”
For insinuating someone’s a bit of a monster:
“I should’ve known it was strange you only come out at night.”
-“vampire”
For when everything feels like a struggle:
“Did I ever tell you that I’m not doin’ well?”
-“lacy”
For when you always want to stick around:
“Like perfume that you wear, I linger all the time.”
-“lacy”
For when they have you obsessed:
“And ooh, I try, I try, I try, but it takes over my life, I see you everywhere. The sweetest torture one could bear.”
-“lacy”
For when you can’t live up to someone else’s glow:
“Wеll, aren’t you the greatest thing to ever exist?”
-“lacy”
For feeling like an outcast:
“Cat got my tongue and I don’t think I get along with anyone.”
-“ballad of a homeschooled girl”
For when you can’t keep your mouth shut:
“I told secrets I shouldn’t tell.”
-“ballad of a homeschooled girl”
For turning to the internet for life advice:
“Sеarchin’ ‘how to start a conversation?’ on a website.”
-“ballad of a homeschooled girl”
For when you’ve made another social faux pas:
“Called you the wrong name twice.”
-“ballad of a homeschooled girl”
For manifesting the reality you want:
“Want it, so I got it. Did it, so it’s done.”
-“making the bed”
For acting all grown up (when you’re definitely not):
“Another day pretendin’ I’m older than I am.”
-“making the bed”
For when you’re not content with your situation:
“Sometimes I feel like I don’t wanna be where I am.”
-“making the bed”
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For having to deal with your choices:
“But it’s me who’s been makin’ the bed.”
-“making the bed”
For catching feelings when you don’t want them:
“I fell for you like water falls from the February sky.”
-“logical”
For feeling gaslit:
“Now you got me thinkin’ two plus two equals five.”
-“logical”
For when emotions defy reason:
“Love is never logical.”
-“logical”
For when your relationship lasts almost a year:
“I met a guy in the summer and I left him in the spring.”
-“get him back!”
For being unsure of your feelings:
“Do I love him? Do I hate him? I guess it’s up and down.”
-“get him back!”
For daydreaming about revenge:
“I wanna meet his mom just to tell her her son sucks.”
-“get him back!”
For when your ex’s new person looks just like you:
“You found a new version of me.”
-“love is embarrassing”
For making a fool of yourself in the name of love:
“Love’s embarrassing as hell.”
-“love is embarrassing”
For when that old breakup still hurts:
“My undying love, now, I hold it like a grudge.”
-“the grudge”
For recognizing they were a bad person:
“How could anybody do the things you did so easily?”
-“the grudge”
For when you just can’t forgive and forget:
“It takes strength to forgive, but I don’t feel strong.”
-“the grudge”
For going over the past over and over:
“The arguments that I’ve won against you in my head in the shower, in the car and in the mirror before bed.”
-“the grudge”
For never being satisfied with yourself:
“There’s always somethin’ in the mirror that I think looks wrong.”
-“pretty isn’t pretty”
For that rouge-coated pout:
“I could try every lipstick in every shade but I’d always feel the same.”
-“pretty isn’t pretty”
For feeling like your youth is holding you back:
“When am I gonna stop being wise beyond my years and just start being wise?”
-“teenage dream”
For having doubts about the future:
“Yeah, they all say that it gets better. It gets better, but what if I don’t?”
-“teenage dream”
For feeling ready to bring on the drama:
“I want it to be, like, messy.”
-“brutal”
For when you know your latest fling is bad news:
“And maybe in some masochistic way, I kind of find it all exciting.”
-“1 step forward, 3 steps back”
For when you’re in your feels:
“Got a broken ego, broken heart. And God, I don’t even know where to start.”
-“brutal”
For when your ex rebounds way too fast:
“Well, good for you, I guess you moved on really easily.”
-good 4 u”
For when you can’t get that person out of your head:
“I still see your face in the white cars, front yards. Can’t drive past the places we used to go to.”
-“drivers license”
For when something brings all of those old thoughts bubbling back up to the surface:
“And I thought my heart was detached from all the sunlight of our past.”
-“happier”
For when you finally get your driver’s license:
“I got my driver’s license last week, just like we always talked about.”
-“drivers license”
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For when it’s time to go on an unfollowing spree:
“I kinda wanna throw my phone across the room ’cause all I see are girls too good to be true.”
-“jealousy, jealousy”
For lamenting lost love:
“And I know we weren’t perfect, but I’ve never felt this way for no one.”
-“drivers license”
For when you feel so ready to leave teenagehood behind:
“If someone tells me one more time, ‘Enjoy your youth,’ I’m gonna cry.”
-“brutal”
For belting out the lyrics to the best song ever:
“Guess you didn’t mean what you wrote in that song about me, ’cause you said forever, now I drive alone past your street.”
-“drivers license”
For the group shot of everyone harmonizing:
“Bein’ annoying, singin’ in harmony.”
-“deja vu”
For when you’re worried you’ve changed too much for the wrong reasons:
“Now I don’t want your sympathy, I just want myself back.”
-“enough for you”
For when you’re trying not to let strangers’ opinions affect you anymore:
“I think I think too much ’bout kids who don’t know me.”
-“jealousy, jealousy”
For when you’re thinking about someone from a long, long time ago:
“But if you’re out there, I hope that you’re okay.”
“hope ur ok.”
For subposting about that person who makes you wish you were more:
“She’s everything I’m insecure about.”
-“drivers license”
For when you’re out of a toxic relationship:
“Don’t you think I loved you too much to be used and discarded? Don’t you think I loved you too much to think I deserve nothing?”
-“enough for you”
For when your ex’s pics with a new girl look just like their pics with you:
“She thinks it’s special, but it’s all reused.”
-“deja vu”
For when you finally reveal that you knew a little more than you’ve been letting on:
“I played dumb but I always knew.”
-“traitor”
For that pic your hands on the wheel, driving through the town:
“Today I drove through the suburbs, ’cause how could I ever love someone else?”
-“drivers license”
For beaming at the camera:
“Oh, I hope you’re happy, but not like how you were with me.”
-“happier”
For making music with your best friends instead:
“Play her piano, but she doesn’t know that I was the one who taught you Billy Joel.”
-“deja vu”
For when your mind is racing a mile a minute:
“I’m anxious and nothing can help.”
-“brutal”
For when you’re trying your best not to detest your ex’s new girl:
“And now I’m pickin’ her apart like cuttin’ her down will make you miss my wretched heart.”
-“happier”
For sharing scoops with a special someone:
“Car rides to Malibu. Strawberry ice cream. One spoon for two.”
-“deja vu”
For posting a sizzling selfie with your girls:
“Guess you didn’t cheat. But you’re still a traitor.”
-“traitor”
For when you really feel like someone should care more about what’s happening:
“Maybe I’m too emotional, but your apathy’s like a wound in salt.”
-“good 4 u”
For showing your love for the friend who’s accepted herself:
“Does she know how proud I am she was created? With the courage to unlearn all of their hatred?”
-“hope ur ok”
For when you’re the only one left broken by the end of the relationship:
“One heart broke, four hands bloody.”
-“favorite crime”
For posting a fire mirror selfie:
“Well, I hope I was your favorite crime.”
-“favorite crime”
For looking to the future after a breakup:
“‘Cause someday I’ll be everything to somebody else.”
-“enough for you”
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For jamming in the car with your best friends:
“Red lights, stop signs, I still see your face in the white cars, front yards, can’t drive past the places we used to go to.”
-“drivers license”
For when you’re not quite feeling sure of yourself anymore:
“Never doubted myself so much. Like am I pretty? Am I fun, boy?”
-“1 step forward, 3 steps back”
For crossing the street in a killer outfit:
“Sidewalks we crossed, I still hear your voice in the traffic, we’re laughing over all the noise. God, I’m so blue, know we’re through.”
-“drivers license”
For when things are starting to feel oddly familiar:
“Do you get déjà vu? Hmm?”
-“deja vu”
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