maggots for brains by Olivia Rodrigo

Artist: Olivia Rodrigo

Album: you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love

Genre: Pop

Length: 4:00

Inspired by Sex and The City’s Miranda Hobbes, “maggots for brains” compares lovesickness and codependency to having a rotting brain, being practically catatonic and unable to function properly without her partner. Rodrigo first teased the song on August 1, 2025 at Lollapalooza in Chicago, via an encore shirt embroidered with the lyric “Zombie in my body”: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRbDtOdy8PsZILOsBuQOBWXDnDUUidES6mWJyC3qSlkcz689vEeJq6C9e4a&s=10

maggots for brains lyrics

My day was so mundane, I don't think I left the house
Drank a pot of coffee, tried to write, nothing came out
Somehow it's the weekend, I'm still bored out of my skull
And I went to the party but only on principle
Empty
Look at me
I'm a zombie in my body, I'm a train off of the track
I feel dirty, I feel rotten and the colors are all flat
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
My baby goes away
My baby goes away
He goes away
Everything feels moldy like the fruit that's in my fridge
And everything that's funny I wish I could tell to him
And sometimes, at a low point, I even wish for tragedy
'Cause I know he'd come over and take real good care of me
It's weird (oh)
He's not here (oh)
I'm a zombie in my body, I'm a train off of the track
I feel dirty, I feel rotten and the colors are all flat
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
My baby goes away
My baby goes away
He goes away, oh-oh-oh
What can I do
But think of you?
But think of you? (But think of you?)
What can I do (what I can do)
But think of you? (But think of you?)
But think of you? (But think of)
I'm a zombie in my body, I'm a train off of the track
I feel dirty, I feel rotten and the colors are all flat
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
My baby goes away
What can I do (when my baby goes away)
But think of you?
But think of you? (Away)
(when my baby goes away)
What can I do (when my baby goes away)
But think of you?
But think of you? (Away)

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