Clearblue

ClearblueSong by Lorde
General information
Artist	Lorde
Released	June 27, 2025
Genre	Interlude
Length	1:57
Album	Virgin
Label	Universal New Zealand • Republic Records
Producer(s)	Lorde, Jim-E Stack
Songwriter(s)	Ella Yelich-O'Connor, James Harmon Stack
Virgin track list
Previous	"Current Affairs"
Current	"Clearblue"
Next	"GRWM"
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"Clearblue" is a song by New Zealand singer-songwriter Lorde, serving as the seventh track on her fourth studio album, Virgin. It was released on June 27, 2025, through Universal Music New Zealand and Republic Records.

Background

On May 28, 2025, Lorde released the tracklist for Virgin. "Clearblue" was shown as the seventh track on the album.

Tackling the concept of unprotected sex leading to an accidental conception; the track attempts to encapsulate the emotions after such a shocking revelation.

On June 5, 2025, during Session: 76 of Jake Shane's podcast, Therapuss, Lorde revealed that “Clearblue” is a song about having unprotected sex and taking a pregnancy test.

"Just this experience of taking a pregnancy test, the flood of emotions on your body, its such a moment. The whole song just destroys me, i can't even really listen to it"

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
After the ecstasy, testing for pregnancy, praying in MP3
I'm scared to let you see into the whole machine, leave it all on the field
Your metal detector hits my precious treasure, I'm nobody's daughter
Yeah, baby, I'm free, I'm free
Free, I'm free

[Verse 2]
But deep in my matter, you're changing my patterns
Your helix is right through me
Bars on my windows, you bust them wide open
'Til clearness is all I see
I'll try letting the answer be part of the dance as I trip and I stumble
Yeah, baby, I'm free, I'm free
I'm free

[Verse 3]
(Ah) Lips 'round your halo, you asked wherе I came from, I lied and then I camе clean
(Ah-ah) There's broken blood in me, it passed through my mother from her mother down to me
(Ah-ah-ah-ah) I feel you answer, my hips moving faster, I rode you until I cried
(Ah-ah) How's it feel being this alive?

[Outro]
Oh, where did it go?
Oh, wish I'd kept the Clearblue
I'd remember how it feels to
Be so bare in the throes
Oh, I wish I'd kept the Clearblue
I'd remember how it feels to be

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