English singer-songwriter Paris Paloma is an icon known for her poignant storytelling and enduring feminist message, and 2026 is shaping up to be one of her biggest years yet.
After releasing her critically acclaimed 2024 debut album Cacophony—which has gone on to have more than a billion streams—she shared her sophomore album, The Fatal Flaw, today, Sep. 4.
The project serves as a thorough examination on what it means to be truly connected to the world around you, becoming your truest self as you embrace self-love and your place in the wider universe. She’s also been bringing the new music to the stage, beginning with various festivals before The Fatal Flaw Tour kicks off with shows throughout North America starting in this month and Europe from November.
Her music deserves to be heard, and we’re highlighting the artist’s power with 41 of her most poignant lyrics to use as Instagram captions. Discover the very best below.
For understanding the value of creativity:
“I have something to say as has anyone who’s ever made anything worth enjoying—nobody can destroy it.”
-“Miyazaki”
For refusing to let your work be stolen and made artifical:
“Please don’t ever take it from me, changes the colour of the air that I breathe.”
-“Miyazaki”
For sharing your imagination with the world at large:
“Putting my mind somewhere outside where it can feel the sun. Maybe it’ll connect with someone.”
-“Miyazaki”
For recognizing your part in the larger scheme:
“The world’s the world and I’m a person in a tiny body. I vow to live, I won’t let fear be anything that stops me.”
-“Miyazaki”
For wanting to forget the past:
“It’s time for the mind wipe.”
-“Rothko”
(Photo credit: Phoebe Fox)
For wondering if you’ll ever know true love:
“One of my biggest fears is that I’ll never feel love in this lifetime.”
-“Rothko”
For struggling to see what everyone else seems to:
“I’m standing in front of the Rothko they say that it makes people cry.”
-“Rothko”
For only being at peace when disaster strikes:
“I only feel at home, now, in a home when it is burning.”
-“Stem the Flow”
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For being too lenient in love:
“It’s not in my nature to forgive bad behavior except when it’s yours.”
-“Stem the Flow”
For wanting to be helped when you’re helpless:
“I have an unhealthy fantasy that I can’t move and you carry me.”
-“Bleeding Part of Me”
For realizing moments of affection are few and far between:
“Are your acts of love so rare to be commemorated?”
-“get her the f***ing flowers”
For hoping to put someone’s memory in the past:
“I cringe at the thought now in all of its indignity.”
-“get her the f***ing flowers”
For yearning to be someone else:
“From time to time, I think of her and I’m everything that she isn’t, and I would make myself in her image if I could.”
-“Pre-Raphaelite”
For contemplating the reality between reality and art:
“She’s in a painting and I’m out of it.”
-“Pre-Raphaelite”
For understanding the importance of nourishing your body:
“Heaven is a fed girl.”
-“Good Girl”
For being anything but obedient:
“If you call me ‘good girl’ one more time, then my fist will meet your skull.”
-“Good Girl”
For learning to fully love the body you’re in:
“No shadow of a doubt that I am in love with my body, and my body is in love with me.”
-“Good Girl”
(Photo credit: Phoebe Fox)
For finally leaving someone behind:
“You wanted me gone, so I vanished. Gave you what you wanted, you have it.”
-“Silhouette on the Hill”
For a man who’s truly pathetic:
“And I have nevеr seen a creature more pitiful than him.”
-“Good Boy”
For letting go and being vulnerable:
“Do you know what it is to give yourself up, to meet the abyss with your face turned into the sun?”
-“Beautiful Birds”
For conferring with a kindred spirit:
“You have a way with words, you say the same of me. Is there a universe in which we didn’t meet?”
-“I Cry in Front of Paintings”
For quoting your favorite Jane Austen novel:
“And if I loved you less, then I could talk about it more.”
-“I Cry in Front of Paintings”
For being surprised by the art that touches you:
“I cry in front of paintings now, but not the ones I thought.”
-“I Cry in Front of Paintings”
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For doing everything right and still losing:
“What did I do wrong? Will you tell me what I did wrong?”
-“my mind (now)”
For turning into a permanent overthinker:
“My mind has not been silent since you.”
-“my mind (now)”
For recognizing the dangers of people-pleasing:
“I will break upon you like a wave upon a rock. I never burn bridges, I just laden them with locks.”
-“pleaser”
For getting another reason not to stick around:
“Doesn’t know that he is pavin’ the road for my escape way every time.”
-“drywall”
For when they only care when they think you’ll leave:
“Why are you hangin’ on so tight to the rope that I’m hangin’ from.”
-“labour”
For thinking it’s time to move on:
“If our love died, would that be the worst thing?”
-“labour”
For always having to work for their love:
“For somebody I thought was my savior, you sure make me do a whole lot of labor.”
-“labour”
For knowing fake helplessness is a means of control:
“The false incompetence, it’s dominance under a guise.”
-“labour”
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For feeling overwhelmed by your societal role as a woman:
“All day, every day, therapist, mother, maid, nymph, then a virgin, nurse, then a servant.”
-“labour”
For learning a lesson you’ll never forget:
“I’ll always remember the things she said. They were so wise, she ope’d my eyes, and I’ll never close again.”
-“as good a reason”
For seeing success as the most powerful form of revenge:
“Every time you are succeedin’ there’s an old man somewhere seethin’, and spite’s as good a reason to take his power.”
-“as good a reason”
For indulging in a different kind of deep rest:
“When I’m lying in my bed, I like to pretend that my body is just bones on the beach.”
-“bones on the beach”
For having no idea what the next life holds:
“I don’t know what’s on the other side, but I don’t think it’s what I had in mind.”
-“bones on the beach”
For time spent with your favorite feline:
“You’re a healthy, gentle, purring beast, and I’m alive.”
-“hunter”
For better understanding what drives you:
“I used to think that I was running from the night, but I’ve been following behind the light all this time.”
-“the warmth”
For shedding your past identities:
“We’rе nothing, but myths now, that neither of us believe in.”
-“yeti”
For yearning for strong familial ties:
“And the blood is thicker than the water.”
-“mulled wine”
For focusing your love and care on the living:
“There’s enough trouble above the earth, so don’t fret ’bout what’s underneath.”
-“underneath”
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