Following her shimmering single Dream Woman and the critically-acclaimed 2024 album Memoir of a Sparklemuffin, Suki Waterhouse returns with something even more stripped-down and intimate.
Released on May 1, 2025, as a standalone single via Sub Pop Records, On This Love finds Suki Waterhouse at her most intimate and unfiltered.
The track is not attached to an album—at least not yet—and instead arrives as a glittering, melancholic capsule of emotional ambiguity.
Suki Waterhouse’s On This Love explores the emotional entanglement of an illicit, imbalanced relationship—one where desire overrides logic, and the addictiveness of love is likened to a substance she can overdose on.
“Just like a drug, I can OD on this love” might read like a Tumblr-era aphorism, but in Suki Waterhouse’s mouth, it sounds less cliché and more like a self-issued diagnosis.
Her newest single, On This Love, slides between infatuation and erosion, letting the soft-spoken vulnerability of her voice become the vehicle for a chaotic, seductive spiral.
The song opens mid-confrontation:
“I ask you a question, ‘You still seeing her?’ You pull me so hard, you say it’s over You rock my body, now I’m seeing stars I dream and you leave in your getaway car”
This isn’t a breakup ballad. It’s an admission that she’s still tangled in a romance built on avoidance and mixed signals.
The line “you pull me so hard” feels less about affection and more about whiplash—a tug-of-war between desire and deception.
There’s a soft masochism embedded in the delivery, a knowing acceptance that pleasure comes laced with rejection.
“You won’t settle down with a damsel distressed And I won’t keep a man if he loves his mistress”
Here, Suki wraps self-awareness in irony. She’s not vying for sainthood—she’s clocked the situation and still walked back into it.
It’s what happens when you fall for someone who weaponises charm like a get-out-of-jail-free card.
The chorus doesn’t offer clarity, just deeper obsession:
“Do you hear me, baby? Do you feel me, baby? I think you want me, baby And just like a drug, I can OD on this love”
It’s confessional, but not in a way that demands resolution. She doesn’t plead; she circles.
The repetition of “baby” and the phrase “just like a drug” create a high-low loop that mimics the cyclical nature of toxic relationships—you know it’s bad, but it keeps pulling you back.
When she sings: “All the days that I wait for my turn I write handwritten letters, you’re a man of few words” there’s a haunting quaintness.
She’s pouring emotion into analog gestures while he’s giving silence.
The phrase “in your back pocket, I’m waiting for news” is devastating in its imagery—being held, not held onto.
And then comes the refrain again, spinning: “Just like a drug, I can OD on this love”
It’s not a build-up to catharsis, it’s a looping addiction. The production—led by Two Feet—leans into dreamy melancholy, pairing hushed guitar lines and woozy rhythms that feel like slow spins in a dimly lit room.
Musically, the restraint is the message. The tension lingers in soft loops. Just the murmur of someone too tired to cry out, too aware to walk away.
It’s the sound of someone who’s fully conscious while being emotionally robbed.
The video, directed by her sister Immy Waterhouse and edited by Madeleine Jean Waterhouse, adds another layer: a retro Hollywood sheen over a transactional, age-gap relationship.
Think Anna Nicole Smith filtered through a Sofia Coppola lens. The aesthetic is sugar-glazed but the dynamics are anything but sweet.
One scene lingers on her lying across a lounge like a resigned housecat, luxury all around her but no warmth in sight.
The lyric “darling, I’m spinning” is not metaphorical flourish. It’s the centre of gravity in this whole track—love that doesn’t anchor but unmoors.
On This Love doesn’t preach, resolve, or beg. It just lets you sit in the ache—with good lighting, heavy eyelids, and the faint sense that you’ve been here before, too.
And like any potent vice, it leaves you both dazed and craving more.
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Suki Waterhouse On This Love Lyrics
Verse 1
I ask you a question, “You still seeing her?”
You pull me so hard, you say it’s over
You rock my body, now I’m seeing stars
I dream and you leave in your getaway car
You won’t settle down with a damsel distressed
And I won’t keep a man if he loves his mistress
Chorus
Do you hear me, baby?
Do you feel me, baby?
I think you want me, baby
Just like a drug, I can OD on this love
Just like a drug, I can OD on this love
Verse 2
All the days that I wait for my turn
I write handwritten letters, you’re a man of few words
In your back pocket, I’m waiting for news
Records keep spinning, I’m dancing the blues
Chorus
Do you hear me, baby?
Do you feel me, baby?
I think you want me, baby
Just like a drug, I can OD on this love (I can OD on this love)
Darling, I’m (Just like a drug, I can OD on this love)
Darling, I’m spinning (In your back pocket, I’m waiting for news)
Darling, I’m (Records keep spinning)
Just like a drug, I can OD on this love
Outro
Darling, I can OD on this love
Darling, oh, I can OD on this love
I can OD on this love
Just like a drug, I can OD on this love
