ambivalent

undecided; uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow

Heard in 16 songs (16M+ combined views) — most famously in "Avant Gardener" by Courtney Barnett.

Updated August 20, 2026

Songs Featuring “ambivalent

Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener

Time: 3:13

Couldn't sleep at night

Halfway down high street, Andy looks ambivalent

He's probably wondering what I'm doing getting in an ambulance

Courtney Barnett - Avant Gardener

Mariah Carey - 8th Grade

Time: 1:52

I'll be that baby girl when you're immature

Don't be ambivalent towards me

Somethin' is tellin' me you're ready

Mariah Carey - 8th Grade

Architects - Discourse Is Dead

Time: 1:16

Round up the ambivalent, you mustn't sit in the shade

'Cause it's blasphemous for one to abstain from hate

Architects - Discourse Is Dead

Sophie Hunter - Cha Cha

Time: 0:25

I'd say nothing at all or "bet you won't you fucking wannabe"

Ambivalent and bad, ha-ha

Passive suicidal still I hit 'em with the cha cha

Sophie Hunter - Cha Cha

Waxahatchee - Ice Cold

Time: 0:32

Some pendulum swings

To an ambivalent muse

A rusted out sign

Waxahatchee - Ice Cold

Dirty Projectors - The Bride

Time: 0:39

Tears of laughter did pervade

Your ambivalent behavior

Where was your diamond engaged but an instinct

Dirty Projectors - The Bride

Lukey - PEACHSUN

Time: 1:39

Got me spinning round like vertigo

How could I feel so certain yet so ambivalent?

When it's time with you, it's so innocent?

Lukey - PEACHSUN

Passion Pit - Somewhere Up There

Time: 3:46

There are three fundamental attachments that you can be:

Secure, ambivalent

Or distant

Passion Pit - Somewhere Up There

Margaret Cho - Asian Adjacent

Time: 2:36

You'll never look ancient

You are racially ambivalent

Asian adjacent

Margaret Cho - Asian Adjacent

Quasi - California

Time: 1:37

or would they best be served a swift kick

Slowly sinking in the vast ambivalent sea of California.

Quasi - California

Busdriver - Less Yes's, More No's

Time: 2:17

Every emphatic 'no'

Now an ambivalent 'yes'

As you know they're arbitrarily assigned an Axis of Evil

Busdriver - Less Yes's, More No's

Matt Duncan - 1000 Boys

Time: 0:41

You should know it's not that I would rather be

Ambivalent in C

But I've been quiet for so long

Matt Duncan - 1000 Boys

SRSQ - No Reason

Time: 1:26

Is a god who's carnivorous worse than one that's ambivalent?

SRSQ - No Reason

Lockjaw - Aasgeier

Time: 0:54

Bleib geduckt, tiefe Narben in der Brust, ja

Meine Beziehung zum Leben ist ambivalent

Im einen Moment will ich's behüten, mit all seinen Blüten

Lockjaw - Aasgeier

Oscar Blesson - Que Du Sale

Time: 0:45

Bruttern er ferie, rømmen, ufrivillig charter

Ambivalent liv og dette er kun en av saker

Passe moi le ballon, moi je fais que du sale

Oscar Blesson - Que Du Sale

matt pond PA - The Trees and the Wild

Time: 0:50

i look back to see you smile

my street is ambivalent

it makes sure to tell me

matt pond PA - The Trees and the Wild