the cure by Olivia Rodrigo

Artist: Olivia Rodrigo

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

Genre: Pop

Length: 4:57

“the cure” is the second single from Olivia Rodrigo’s third studio album, you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love. Olivia is featured on the cover holding a red string making out the track’s title, a detail she first teased in an interview with Cosmopolitan: I can’t give too much away, but the red string is important to the themes of the album. Olivia initially described the single, saying “It’s karaokable if you’re sad.” The song was first teased on May 18, 2026, when two lyrical snipp...

the cure lyrics

All the pretty girls in the foreground of my mind
I thought I'd done enough, but they keep moving the line
I thought I found the antidote this time
I thought I found the antidote this time
All the nights I spend fighting bad thoughts in my room
Feeling so alone, might as well be on the moon
I thought I found the antidote with you
I thought I found the antidote with you
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 them out
And it feels like medication
And it's good for me, I'm sure
But it don't matter how your love feels anymore
It'll never be the cure
It'll never be the cure
Used to play a game in my head when I'd date a guy
Tally up the girls that he fucked till I start to cry
I thought I found the antidote this time
I thought I found the antidote this time
But I'm unraveled
I'm unraveled
I'm unraveled
I'm unraveled
I'm unraveled
I'm unraveled
I'm unraveled
I'm unraveled
And my head is full of poison
And my heart is full of doubt
I got toxins in my bloodstream
You tried hard to suck them out
And it feels like medication
And it's good for me, I'm sure
But it don't matter how your love feels anymore
It'll never be the cure
It'll never be the cure
Oh, 'cause baby, I'm unraveled
I'm unraveled
I'm unraveled
I'm unraveled
I'm unraveled
I'm unraveled
I'm unraveled
I'm unraveled
I'm unraveled
Why can't you come stitch me up?
Why can't it ever be enough?
Why can't you come stitch me up?
Why can't it ever be enough?
It's not enough
Oh, because my head is full of poison
And my heart is full of doubt
I got toxins in my bloodstream
You tried so hard to suck out
And it feels like medication
And it's good for me, I'm sure
But it don't matter how your love feels anymore
It'll never be the cure
It'll never be the cure
It'll never be

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