Lacy

Album

Guts

Label

Geffen Records

Genre

Pop punk

Composer(s)

Olivia Rodrigo;Dan Nigro

Entered Chart

Sep 23, 2023

Peak Date

Sep 23, 2023

“lacy,” the fourth track of GUTS, sees Olivia blur the line between envy and homoeroticism. In one lens, Rodrigo embraces her inferiority complex by personifying the beauty of women she’s intimidated by in this “Lacy” character. Similar to “jealousy, jealousy” and “obsessed,” Olivia succumbs to her habit of comparing herself to other women to an extent so extreme that it seems like a crippling romantic obsession. On a September 14, 2023 interview for Wired, Rodrigo revealed that the song began as a poem she wrote for a college poetry class: I took a poetry class, so that was really fun. We actually turned one of the songs that I wrote in the poetry class — the poem was called “lacy,” we turned it into a song on the album called “lacy,” so it was quite fruitful.

Verse 1]
Lacy, oh Lacy, skin like puff pastry
Aren't you the sweetest thing on this side of Hell?
Dear angel Lacy, eyes white as daisies
Did I ever tell you that I’m not doin' well?

[Chorus]
Ooh, I care, I care, I care
Like perfume that you wear, I linger all the time
Watching, hidden in plain sight
And ooh, I try, I try, I try
But it takes over my life, I see you everywhere
The sweetest torture one could bear

[Verse 2]
Smart, sexy Lacy, I'm losin’ it lately
I feel your compliments likе bullets on skin
Dazzling starlet, Bardot reincarnatе
Well, aren't you the greatest thing to ever exist?

[Chorus]
Ooh, I care, I care, I care
Like ribbons in your hair, my stomach's all in knots
You got the one thing that I want
Ooh, I try, I try, I try
Try to rationalize, people are people
But it's like you're made of angel dust

[Bridge]
Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh, oh

[Outro]
Lacy, oh Lacy, it's like you're out to get me
You poison every little thing that I do
Lacy, oh Lacy, I just loathe you lately
And I despise my jealous eyes and how hard they fell for you
Yeah, I despise my rotten mind and how much it worships you