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Madison Beer

complexity

Release date: 16th January 2026

From locketTrack 9
2:37
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About This Track

'Complexity' finds Madison Beer examining the impossible arithmetic of love and self-worth. The track circles a single, devastating question: how can she expect to be loved by someone who cannot love themselves? It is a song about the weight of trying to fill someone else's emptiness, and the futility baked into that effort. Beer's voice carries the repetition without exhaustion, the chorus building through insistence rather than crescendo. The lyrics move between her own fractured self-image and the damage inflicted by someone else's carelessness, a severed moment turned into a joke she cannot unhear. There is no resolution here, only the honest acknowledgment that some gaps cannot be bridged by devotion alone.

"complexity" is a track by Madison Beer, from the album locket, released 16th January 2026. The track is 2:37 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 15 articles about Madison Beer.

About the Artist

Madison Beer

Madison Beer

Lyrics

complexity

All of my fine complexities
The baggage that I turned into beauty
I have a way, a tendency (tendency)
I tend to stay with people who leave
But how can I expect you to love me
When you don't even love yourself?
How can I expect you to want me
When you want nothin' for yourself?
How can I expect you to love me?
To love me, to love me
How can I expect you to love me?
To love me, to love me
Remember the time that you severed me
And you made a joke, but what did you mean?
I look in the mirror and don't see what you see (see)
Wish I could forget what you said to me
But how can I expect you to love me
When you don't even love yourself?
How can I expect you to want me
When you want nothin' for yourself?
How can I expect you to love me?
To love me, to love me
How can I expect you to love me?
To love me (love me)

But how can I expect you to love me? (Me)
When you don't even love yourself?
How can I expect you to want me (me)
When you want nothin' for yourself?
How can I expect you to love me?
To love me, to love me
How can I expect you to love me?
To love me, love me

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Track details

From locket

2:372026
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Album
locket
locket
Madison Beer
16th January 2026
Track number
9
Release year
2026
  1. 1locket theme
    1:29
  2. 2yes baby
    2:55
  3. 3angel wings
    4:04
  4. 4for the night
    3:09

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    • Credits

    Production & Engineering

    Writer
    Leroy Clampitt, LOSTBOY, Lucy Healey, Madison Beer
    Writer
    Leroy Clampitt, Lucy Healey, Madison Beer, Peter Rycroft
    Producer
    Leroy Clampitt, LOSTBOY, Madison Beer
    Producer
    Leroy Clampitt, Lostboy (5), Lucy Healey, Madison Beer, Peter Rycroft
    Engineer
    Leroy Clampitt
    Bass
    Leroy Clampitt, LOSTBOY, Peter Rycroft
    Drums
    Leroy Clampitt, LOSTBOY, Peter Rycroft
    Keyboards
    Leroy Clampitt, LOSTBOY, Peter Rycroft
    Arranger
    Leroy Clampitt
    Background Vocals
    Lucy Healey, Madison Beer
    Cello
    yeemz, Yi-Mei Templeman
    Mastering Engineer
    Nathan Dantzler
    Mixing Engineer
    Mitch McCarthy
    Strings Arranger
    Leroy Clampitt
    Vocal Producer
    Leroy Clampitt, LOSTBOY, Lucy Healey
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