Maxwell - Pretty Wings
Time: 0:41
Oh, you played me dirty, your game was so bad
You toyed with my affliction
Had to fill out my prescription

a state of great suffering of body or mind
Heard in 71 songs (282M+ combined views) — most famously in "Pretty Wings" by Maxwell.
Updated September 21, 2026
Time: 0:41
Oh, you played me dirty, your game was so bad
You toyed with my affliction
Had to fill out my prescription

Time: 0:49
Out the box, outta line (oh-oh, oh-oh, oh)
The affliction of the feeling leaves me wanting more (oh, oh, ooh)
'Cause I may be bad, but I'm perfectly good at it

Time: 1:41
My best mistake was you
And you're my sweet affliction
'Cause you hurt me right, but you do it nice

Time: 0:58
You're just like poison
My affliction, I'm addiction, I can't lie
Kiss me one more time before I die

Time: 0:18
Give us this day our daily dose of faux affliction
Forgive our sins

Time: 0:35
When all of a sudden
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory
And I realize just how beautiful You are

Time: 4:45
Seen from miles away
A hopeless affliction
Having run astray

Time: 0:57
I want you to look beyond your own eyes
Past your afflictions
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Time: 0:15
My body's your addiction
Your touch is my affliction
I speak, you never listen

Time: 2:41
Your mind won't even let you feel
Savor the addiction, savor the affliction, savor me
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Time: 0:02
I can see you're standing on the edge
Your legs step on the ledge of life's afflictions
I know you're a master of disguise, you are

Time: 1:37
Motherless child does thou believe
That thine afflictions have caused us to grieve?
Motherless child angels with clothes

Time: 0:11
Wish I was too dead to cry
My self-affliction fades
Stones to throw at my creator

Time: 1:49
I don't know how to let it go, I just don't know how to behave
I was born with this affliction, and I'll take it to the grave
I could never keep, I could never keep

Time: 3:55
If we were our obsessions
If we were our afflictions, I'd be joining you
♪

Time: 0:07
I am my own affliction
I am my own disease

Time: 0:46
Think over the tone you spoke in
So lost in your affliction
The solemn comfort of your grave

Time: 0:43
These days I live to my depiction
Nowadays, I'm finding no affliction
These days I'm needing no restriction

Time: 0:56
I said, "Hey, what you yellin'?
About conditions, permission, mirrored self affliction
Hey, what you yellin?

Time: 1:55
Unlike you
It's my affliction that creates the template of all that I am
All that I fucking am

Time: 0:27
I've been with you
Through pain and affliction
With every addiction

Time: 3:10
Ravenous feeling
Conviction must be greater than life's afflictions
I follow in my own footsteps

Time: 1:37
Your mindset is your vaccine for every disease
Illness, affliction, sneeze
The pollen has got in your body's diaphragm

Time: 2:48
Where there's light I'll bring you darkness
Where there's health I'll bring affliction
Where there's hope I'll bring misfortune

Time: 1:51
Will those feet in modern times
Understand this world's affliction?
Recognise the righteous anger

Time: 1:42
Baby, don? t you get it you are my addiction?
And I was your affliction, girl I learned my lesson
Now I want you back by any means

Time: 1:20
Alabao, you're the one that I adore
You can take care of my affliction
Satisfy my addiction

Time: 2:20
Instead she pretended she was blind
An affliction brought on by a witch's curse
Dorothy made me laugh (ha ha, ha ha)

Time: 0:14
Well, a travelin' man's affliction makes it hard to settle down
But I'm stuck here in the flatlands while my heart is homeward bound

Time: 2:46
No matter how many heartbreaks, headaches
Affliction and the pain, it's itchin' in my veins
No right or wrong prescription, I'm addicted to the game

Time: 1:24
I believe there's one way to your love
Love for life is my affliction
You are my sublime addiction

Time: 0:43
But, it matters we gotta' start feeding our souls
Not our addictions or afflictions of pain
To avoid the same questions we must

Time: 0:55
When all of a sudden
I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory
And I realize just how beautiful You are

Time: 0:46
If I struggle with affliction
It's because I cuddle with my contradiction

Time: 0:34
(take a chance and walk right through)
The affliction
That's the curse for the modern man

Time: 1:18
It feels like I'm going down
I deny my affliction
And I run from the light

Time: 1:24
I'm so free now
They try to keep me down with affliction
Alpha male fell asleep in the engine

Time: 0:23
You tell the truth about everything
Of all of your afflictions
That is my favorite one

Time: 0:17
I wanted it all, didn't expect it to fall
Must be an affliction (yeah, yeah)
I wanted to call, but I didn't call

Time: 2:13
But though we bear our burdens now
All afflictions got to end somehow
From swinging the hammer, pulling the plough

Time: 2:56
How much further I'd be
If I just considered my past affliction
Only to confess

Time: 0:39
Things ain't cookin' in my kitchen
Strange affliction wash over me
Julius Caesar and the Roman Empire

Time: 1:51
You're prepared to remain this way
So sad yet safe with your afflictions
Afraid to start a brand new day

Time: 1:28
I know you'll do the same for me
These afflictions that are only temporary
Are gonna turn to glory beyond compare

Time: 5:05
♪
Transcending boundaries of affliction
I've learned from past experience I am a monster

Time: 0:13
Excuses do not hold
I'm struck with my affliction
An inner perfect storm

Time: 0:27
Chemical fiction
I'm a monkey with a madding affliction
Fact checking for a mental condition

Time: 3:32
I see the world that fine
I'm sick of your affliction
But you're just a small man and blind

Time: 1:14
So call it truth in fiction, that's exactly what it is
Society's affliction, we replace the truth with myth
It's your and my addiction

Time: 1:41
And with the kids and the money, was a lot to lose.
He said she had an rare affliction
And he was doing all he could do.

Time: 0:36
Torments him, 'round he throws his baleful eyes
That witnessed huge affliction and dismay
Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate

Time: 1:25
♪
How can you help my affliction
If you're the sickness and not the cure?

Time: 2:29
Now, go get your dictionary and your Pictionary
Cause much affliction with my diction friction slips and carries
Words and hers like some cattle in the steeple

Time: 0:50
And it's the classic contradiction
The unavoidable affliction
And it don't take much to predict, son

Time: 0:41
Walk away from yesterday, walk away tomorrow
If you're walking to escape, to escape from your affliction
You'd be walking in a great circle, in a circle of addiction

Time: 0:13
I'm sure the devil's got him a big grin
Watching my head spin with moral afflictions
Addiction

Time: 1:10
Phone me, baby, phone me
Does my affliction turn you on?
She finds no proof, I feel so weak

Time: 0:20
Much greater than science fiction
Is this thang about my new affliction
Waves of pain are sweeping through me

Time: 2:47
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Like a deadly affliction that is twisting and bending my core
I have begged God for the remedy, but I'm no longer sure

Time: 1:16
Baby, you left me in a burning condition
And my love, to you, has become my affliction
You know my need for you

Time: 1:49
A part-time lover took the full-time pay
God please show her mercy, her affliction's here to stay
She just found out she pregnant and

Time: 2:33
like an addiction
when you caught your affliction
i'm in a rage, i'm in a rage, i'm in a rage

Time: 2:38
Floating 'round the fragile bough
Afflictions of the human soul
Its beauty immaterial

Time: 0:34
And you tear my feet off the ground
Everytime I would forget my affliction
(Affliction)

Time: 0:35
You can lie down here for a good few days
Tell me what you know about a man's affliction
PC plod talk pure science fiction

Time: 2:54
Me and my brothers and sistanem slept in the same room
Suffered the same afflictions
See the reflection of a nigga that never liked attention

Time: 0:29
They say, "This shadow land is only temporary
These light afflictions work
A great eternal glory"

Time: 3:39
♪
So many suffering from the same affliction
♪

Time: 0:21
And count the tock of the drugstore clock
A prototype they say to combat my affliction
Extra gravity to control me

Time: 0:22
We gotta celebrate co dependence day
Self-caused affliction
Magnified with chemical addiction

Time: 17:03
Folks, as you can see for yourself
The way this clock over here is behaving, time is of affliction
Now this might be cause for alarm among a portion of you, as, from a certain experience
