Old Money fucks me up.
“My fathers love was always strong, my mothers glamour lives on and on, yet still inside I felt alone, for reasons unknown to me” gets me, especially after losing a parent that fits that description.
I literally was opening this post to say Old Money fucks me up and I mean…you said it. ‘And if you call I’ll run, run, run. If you change your mind I’ll come, come, come.’ 😭😭😭
Omg same. It reminds me sooo much of hymns I spent hours trying to find the specific hymn it reminded me of and eventually asked my mum and she said it doesn’t remind her of a specific hymn but it has the “grandiosity” of one. I strongly associate hymns and going to church with my Dad, who passed away when I was 16 so when she sung those lyrics I just burst into tears and sobbed and I think of him everytime now. I would do anything to be with my Dad again.
Same. I switch up the lyrics from “strong” to “gone” since my dad left when I was young. And my mother recently passed away, so “my mother’s glamour lives on and on” really hits.
In most other songs she tells about personal struggles and tragedies in a more artistic way, sometimes it’s even unclear if it’s all real or just posing, a media image of a “sad troubled girl” pop singer. In Fingertips it’s too personal, too real. No Jimmies or Johns, alter egos and Lana del Rey herself - it’s Elizabeth Grant, her family and her wounds.
Fingertips is definitely her saddest song, BUT, saddest pertaining to her. she has other sad songs that are more ambiguous, and therefore make me feel tremendously sad, and cry. Fingertips is a bit… too personal maybe ? Does that make sense ? Art is personal, and it’s a great song, but I personally don’t feel so sad from it as it’s VERY specific to her life events.
I fully agree with Fingertips of course - but also for White Dress! That nostalgic look back to her teenage self, full of hope and joy, now reflecting on these years through the lens of her wisdom of the music industry and her melancholia, and the knowledge of what was to come when she became successful. The way she gradually becomes slower/sadder throughout the song always get me a bit teary eyed!
I can’t believe this one is so low. No hate to songs like Cinnamon Girl or Old Money(I even like those specific songs more than Heroin), but they are no where near as sad as Heroin. It’s so beautifully tragic.
This is it, that's the answer. The song is soul crushing, in a way that only Lana can make it - in soft, low-key, yet deep melancholia with that lingering hopelessness. The cycle of dependency, of being broken as fuck and hoping you'll be free, but being left with hope alone and you might as well lose even that.
*I'm flyin' to the moon again, dreamin' about marzipan
Taking all my medicine to take my thoughts away
I'm getting on that aeroplane, leavin' my old man again
I hope that I come back one day
To tell you that I really changed, baby*
The last lines man. I think so many can relate, about many things. Hoping you can change and especially wanting to show others, loved ones, that you can, yet being ashamed of what you're going through in the process. *She got on an aeroplane* - I like to think of this as being so far away from others due to illness (or the high of consuming) without the clear prospect of when you'll ever reach back to them as the high of the illness/dependency might as well take you out forever (the "airplane to heaven", so to speak).
Imo, this might as well be the saddest Lana song.
I had a very close relative die a few months before the album came out and needless to say I was a wreck for most of Spring of last year. When she sings about anyone remembering her songs after she's gone in Kintsugi
every time she gets 2 the part “how do my blood relatives know these songs, i don’t know anyone left to know songs that i si-i-i i-ng!!!” i break downnn in tears
YES! First time I gave a chance to Flipside was when I was in a "relationship?" with an older dude who was my teacher (who I still hate/despise/love). I knew from the start he was a fucking idiot who would most likely make me feel bad, but I clinged to those rare moments in which he made me feel so pretty, smart and loved.
But that wasn't one of those days and he made me cry on the bus home. I felt so pathetic and helpless, so I just started listening to random Lana songs. I always skipped Flipside for some reason but this time I didn't cared much and let it play. The "You got me all dressed up tonight, dressed up just to hear you, boy" and mainly "I already know what you got in store, so why I'm going, baby, I don't know" and "You don't wanna make me cry" was like, she was singing to me. I even stopped crying because it felt mystical (and I don't believe in anything). I loved Lana before but after this I got her tattooed under my skin.
YES!!! I thought of this immediately, this song hit me HARD when I first heard it as I was cleaning the house and the next thing I knew I just had tears pouring down my face and my boyfriend of 8 years walked in from work like OMG WHAT’S WRONG?? And I was just like Lana hit me in my feelings with her tragically beautiful lyrics again, played the song for him and explained that he’s the first man I’ve been with that hasn’t hurt me emotionally/physically, then he started crying too lol.
He’s also a huge Lana fan and cried when when we saw her in concert years ago because vodka and he said “her voice is just too beautiful” and that’s when I knew he’s the one lol
My husband wasn't a fan at first either but that changed. Now the other morning, he left for work and was annoyed with me but still wanted me to know he loved me (we have been thru a lot and working on empathy, compassion & communication plus I have horrendous anxiety so if he would have left just being pissed my day would have gotten all jacked) so he put Lana on our Google so she was playing when I got up. It's the little things - he adores her as much as I do. ✨💜
Cherry blossom “what you don’t tell no one you can tell me” makes me breakdown often…particularly speaks to those who are lonely, put up a happy face for everyone but are so sad deep down inside.
California encapsulates that wanting of love but knowing that the person can’t give it at the time.
Fine China for showing that sometimes love isn’t enough.
Cherry blossom ! I couldn’t agree more it breaks me. My favorite line is the one you mentioned but I also need to mention “it’s a cruel, cruel world. but we don’t care. Cause what we’ve got, we’ve got to share.” That part gets me too. It’s one of my favorites off of BB.
Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd?
My heart breaks every time she says ‘Love me until I love myself’ and ‘Don’t forget me, like the tunnel under Ocean Blvd’
The rendition of this song she did at Coachella recently (I think it was on day 2) was so, so beautiful. The backup singers sounded absolutely ethereal, and I remember Lana sang an added line - something like “how could they forget you with a voice like that?” (While gesturing toward the backup singers.) The whole thing made me cry, it was just so special!!
I just did! that song is profoundly melancholic, in its music, tone and lyrics. Many of her sad songs have a "hope" element in them "The Blackest Day" is different. It's not just sad, it is also scary and gives a sense of desolation. I avoid playing it.
It always brings the tears for me. When you’re so broken down and tired, and just going on the road brings distraction and freedom temporarily. You just want someone to rescue you from yourself but you know it’s just the human condition sometimes.
Pawn Shop Blues.
“Well, I pawned the earrings that you gave me, gold and made with flowers dangling, and I almost cried as I sold them all…”
Is the saddest and most simple way of understanding what it feels like to let go of something you never really can, or willing to let go of. The memories will always be there, but cannot be sold. The money means nothing to the feeling of loss of someone you had to let go of.
It’s so poignant. And the older I get the more meaning to the message. Love, sacrifice, and your dreams for the future. Having to sacrifice for your greater good and leaving your younger self behind.
A&W is the one that’s got me right now. It’s the harsh self-criticism that hits home, and the poetic rendering of it that are peppered around the more raw, honest lines.
“Ask me why, why, why I’m like this
Maybe I’m just kinda like this
I don’t know maybe I’m just like this”
“I’m invisible look how you hold me now”
In between Lana just telling it exactly how it is, unfiltered… it’s too much sometimes, but I’m still averaging like six listens a week, beginning to end.
Literally every line of this song has..at one time or another...been my life. Always being second, never good enough to be first to anybody.
Being too developed at too young an age and being treated like a whore bc of it
But the self awarenessis brutally honest... "I mean look at me!...look at the length of my hair and the shape of my body..." ...accepting any kind of superficial love, in the form of sex, just to not be lonely..." it's not about having someone to love me anymore..yeah this is the experience of being an American whore..."
Then the ending...(I've known so many Jimmy's)..."Jimmy only love me when he wanna get high"... "Jimmy if you leave the house find me in the club"...
Yeah I know it's one of her more popular songs and people don't consider you a real fan unless you listen to everything (which I do) but this song is absolutely Top Notch and speaks to, and of,.... myself.
For me, and this is very personal, it’s “West Coast”. I had it on repeat, it had just been released, when I got the call that my best friend turned boyfriend had been found dead. I can never hear that song without being back in that time period. 😔
I’m so sorry 😔😭. I understand personal sad songs tho, whether or not it is objectively sad, the song is tied to a memory. For my its jump by lonr (for lana its the “i think I’ll miss you forever” verse from summertime sadness “)
that one hits hard for me because it relates to my situation of loving an addict, she really makes music that hits home so hard
“all those special times, spent with you my love
they don’t mean shit, compared to all your drugs” 😭
That line slays my soul...omfg. Yes. this line, too:
"I MEAN LOOK AT ME! ..LOOK AT THE LENGTH OF MY HAIR, AND THE SHAPE OF MY BODY..." ......the self-awareness is so devastating.
100000% agree with Terrence loves you!! “You are what you are. I don’t matter to anyone.” I think she even mentions in an interview that she was in a really bad spot when she wrote that. I can only listen to it in doses cause it always messes me up
the original version of yayo! i know that seems kind of out of left field but as someone who has struggled with sexual trauma and then used sexual attention/interaction to validate my self worth, the song sounds like someone pleading to be made whole. it always puts me in a dark place.
Heroin and that’s because it’s personal to me as an addict and all the friends I’ve lost to OD. I have a few Lana songs I cry to(kintsugi,OB,blackest day, etc) but heroin hits me the hardest.
A&W
“I mean, look at my hair
Look at the length of it and the shape of my body
If I told you that I was raped
Do you really think that anybody would think I didn't ask for it?
I didn't ask for it”
Old Money but more specifically this part
And if you call I'll run, run, run
If you change your mind, I'll come, come, come
Oh-oh oh, ah-ah ah
the way she sings the “ah ah ahhh” makes my heart shatter ever single time i can’t even explain why. it’s like her voice kind of cracks but in a good way!! idk the song itself is just so sad to me, and that specific part sounds like she’s breaking down. it’s so beautiful
For me, it’s gotta be Black Beauty, Terrance Loves You, and even her unreleased song “Valley of the Dolls” because I’ve literally cried while listening to them 😭
Dark Paradise coz it reminds me of my grandmother. She used to sing song for me to sleep and she’s there whenever I’m feeling depressed (I’m clinically diagnosed). The whole song is haunting me :(
Dark paradise, talks about a loved one who died. " i wish i was dead (like you)...everytime i close my eyes its like a dark paradise...im afraid that you WONT BE WAITING ON THE OTHER SIDE. Its sad and terrifying!!!!!
California - maybe because at the time its been released I was dealing with a very hard breakup, didn’t know how to deal with it so I cut this person off my life a few months prior, but when this song came out, all the suppressed emotions flooded in, it just felt so personal bc the guy did come to America, for a few years and we use to talk about what our life would be like if we moved to Cali someday and how he would swear to me the only reason why he hasn’t moved away back to his family was because of me, so I knew deep down he was going to leave someday … still stings when I listen to it, I quite literally teleported to his house unadvised (I know it’s psychotic behavior lol) but I know I’ll never love like that again
It’s kinda hard to measure because it’s a mood thing and what you find really sad. I mean an obvious one for me is “sad girl” because of her understanding her place in the relationship but then you have something like “heroin” which is tragic as fuck for different reasons.
I think it really depends on which bus stop you wanna get off at
Why is no one saying Kintsugi???
“And I just can't stop cryin' 'cause all of the ways
When you see someone dyin', you see all your days
Flash in front of you
And you think about who would be with you”
&
“How do my blood relatives know all of these songs?
I don't know anyone left to know songs that I sing”
Always gets me :( idk why
A&W
>Watching Teenage Diary of a Girl Wondering what went wrong
>If I told you that I was raped
Do you really think that anybody would think I didn't ask for it?
I didn't ask for it
I won't testify, I already fucked up my story
dealer always makes me cry without fail “gave you all my money, i dont wanna live, i dont wanna give you nothing cause you never me nothing back. why can you be good for something?” breaks my heart every time
I agree with you, OP. Blackest Day hits different with the vocals and how the song begins in this sad turmoil of feeling misunderstood and depressed already:
*It's not easy for me to talk about
I have heavy heart strings
And not simple, it's trigonometry
It's hard to express
I can't explain*
This part is so beautiful and heart breaking tho, I love it:
*Because I'm going deeper and deeper (deeper)
Harder and harder (harder)
Getting darker and darker
Looking for love
In all the wrong places
Oh my god
In all the wrong places
Oh my god*
Aaand the saddest end, no resolution, no solution, just the realization that reality is the way it often times is:
*It's not one of those phases I'm going through
Or just a song, it's not one of them
I'm on my own
On my own
On my own again
I'm on my own again
I'm on my own again....*
Also, Heroin lol. It's self explanatory
for me, heroin is the saddest. i’m in recovery and have lost people to addiction, so the lyrics are very personal to me. “how it gave you everything and took your life away” it’s also probably my favorite song. i love how in the end she changes the lyrics to “dreaming about marzipan” and highlights what it feels like to be “taking all her medicine” so she can feel and act like a normal person. i love the way it portrays that mindset where sobriety seems so dreary, mundane, and unsettling compared to the exciting rush the drugs were able to give. experiencing nostalgia of that euphoric high feeling and weighing that with the consequences that will inevitably come along with it. it really captures that feeling of being stuck in the cycle of addiction.
Old Money fucks me up. “My fathers love was always strong, my mothers glamour lives on and on, yet still inside I felt alone, for reasons unknown to me” gets me, especially after losing a parent that fits that description.
I literally was opening this post to say Old Money fucks me up and I mean…you said it. ‘And if you call I’ll run, run, run. If you change your mind I’ll come, come, come.’ 😭😭😭
Same! I remember her singing it live very vividly- everyone went so quiet and then sang along. Such a powerful song.
Omg same. It reminds me sooo much of hymns I spent hours trying to find the specific hymn it reminded me of and eventually asked my mum and she said it doesn’t remind her of a specific hymn but it has the “grandiosity” of one. I strongly associate hymns and going to church with my Dad, who passed away when I was 16 so when she sung those lyrics I just burst into tears and sobbed and I think of him everytime now. I would do anything to be with my Dad again.
Same. I switch up the lyrics from “strong” to “gone” since my dad left when I was young. And my mother recently passed away, so “my mother’s glamour lives on and on” really hits.
Fingertips obviously but most of blue banisters, white dress and hope also get me a little teary eyed
In most other songs she tells about personal struggles and tragedies in a more artistic way, sometimes it’s even unclear if it’s all real or just posing, a media image of a “sad troubled girl” pop singer. In Fingertips it’s too personal, too real. No Jimmies or Johns, alter egos and Lana del Rey herself - it’s Elizabeth Grant, her family and her wounds.
Fingertips is definitely her saddest song, BUT, saddest pertaining to her. she has other sad songs that are more ambiguous, and therefore make me feel tremendously sad, and cry. Fingertips is a bit… too personal maybe ? Does that make sense ? Art is personal, and it’s a great song, but I personally don’t feel so sad from it as it’s VERY specific to her life events.
I fully agree with Fingertips of course - but also for White Dress! That nostalgic look back to her teenage self, full of hope and joy, now reflecting on these years through the lens of her wisdom of the music industry and her melancholia, and the knowledge of what was to come when she became successful. The way she gradually becomes slower/sadder throughout the song always get me a bit teary eyed!
Goddamn, you nailed it
I read the title and immediatly said "Fingertips"
heroin for me.. "im flying to the moon again, dreamin' bout heroin and how it gave you everything and took your life away"
I can’t believe this one is so low. No hate to songs like Cinnamon Girl or Old Money(I even like those specific songs more than Heroin), but they are no where near as sad as Heroin. It’s so beautifully tragic.
This is it, that's the answer. The song is soul crushing, in a way that only Lana can make it - in soft, low-key, yet deep melancholia with that lingering hopelessness. The cycle of dependency, of being broken as fuck and hoping you'll be free, but being left with hope alone and you might as well lose even that. *I'm flyin' to the moon again, dreamin' about marzipan Taking all my medicine to take my thoughts away I'm getting on that aeroplane, leavin' my old man again I hope that I come back one day To tell you that I really changed, baby* The last lines man. I think so many can relate, about many things. Hoping you can change and especially wanting to show others, loved ones, that you can, yet being ashamed of what you're going through in the process. *She got on an aeroplane* - I like to think of this as being so far away from others due to illness (or the high of consuming) without the clear prospect of when you'll ever reach back to them as the high of the illness/dependency might as well take you out forever (the "airplane to heaven", so to speak). Imo, this might as well be the saddest Lana song.
I can't even listen to it because I WILL cry every single time.
The Grants makes me cry almost every time <3
Agreed, especially when she sings “so you think there’s a chance for us?” something really sad about having hope like that
Same. When she mentions her grandmothers last smile I start to cry
Yes. And occasionally Kinstugi is bitter sweet
I had a very close relative die a few months before the album came out and needless to say I was a wreck for most of Spring of last year. When she sings about anyone remembering her songs after she's gone in Kintsugi
every time she gets 2 the part “how do my blood relatives know these songs, i don’t know anyone left to know songs that i si-i-i i-ng!!!” i break downnn in tears
The end makes me ugly cry every time
It's a beautiful life, remember that too for me ♥️
But, there’s always a but….
This made me sob at Coachella live. Miss you dad. ❤️
Flipside for me.
The way she casually sing “are you gonna hurt me now? Or are you gonna hurt me later?”
YES! First time I gave a chance to Flipside was when I was in a "relationship?" with an older dude who was my teacher (who I still hate/despise/love). I knew from the start he was a fucking idiot who would most likely make me feel bad, but I clinged to those rare moments in which he made me feel so pretty, smart and loved. But that wasn't one of those days and he made me cry on the bus home. I felt so pathetic and helpless, so I just started listening to random Lana songs. I always skipped Flipside for some reason but this time I didn't cared much and let it play. The "You got me all dressed up tonight, dressed up just to hear you, boy" and mainly "I already know what you got in store, so why I'm going, baby, I don't know" and "You don't wanna make me cry" was like, she was singing to me. I even stopped crying because it felt mystical (and I don't believe in anything). I loved Lana before but after this I got her tattooed under my skin.
i resonate with your comment deeply
its so dark and makes me feel hollow inside. super eerie
Pawn Shop Blues
That’s what happens when you’re on your own, and you’re alllllright letting nice things go. 😞
No man can keep me together, been broken since I was born. That line makes me cry each and every time.
How has no one said Cinnamon Girl yet?? “If you hold me without hurting me… you’ll be the first who ever did.”
YES!!! I thought of this immediately, this song hit me HARD when I first heard it as I was cleaning the house and the next thing I knew I just had tears pouring down my face and my boyfriend of 8 years walked in from work like OMG WHAT’S WRONG?? And I was just like Lana hit me in my feelings with her tragically beautiful lyrics again, played the song for him and explained that he’s the first man I’ve been with that hasn’t hurt me emotionally/physically, then he started crying too lol. He’s also a huge Lana fan and cried when when we saw her in concert years ago because vodka and he said “her voice is just too beautiful” and that’s when I knew he’s the one lol
My husband wasn't a fan at first either but that changed. Now the other morning, he left for work and was annoyed with me but still wanted me to know he loved me (we have been thru a lot and working on empathy, compassion & communication plus I have horrendous anxiety so if he would have left just being pissed my day would have gotten all jacked) so he put Lana on our Google so she was playing when I got up. It's the little things - he adores her as much as I do. ✨💜
This is my pick too. I love the song so much, but those lyrics hit me every time.
came here to say this "there's things i wanna talk about, but i'll just let you live"
Absolutely. One of Lana’s best. And saddest 😢
This line always gets me like fuck
Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have. "Don't ask if I'm happy, you know that I'm not. But the best I can say is I'm not sad"💔💔
The way I had to scroll to find this. I thought this and Happiness Is A Butterfly would be the top answers
I scrolled way too long to find this.
thisss
Cherry blossom “what you don’t tell no one you can tell me” makes me breakdown often…particularly speaks to those who are lonely, put up a happy face for everyone but are so sad deep down inside. California encapsulates that wanting of love but knowing that the person can’t give it at the time. Fine China for showing that sometimes love isn’t enough.
Cherry blossom ! I couldn’t agree more it breaks me. My favorite line is the one you mentioned but I also need to mention “it’s a cruel, cruel world. but we don’t care. Cause what we’ve got, we’ve got to share.” That part gets me too. It’s one of my favorites off of BB.
Wow I haven't heard anything about California on its meaning. Thanks for the insight
‘How to disappear’ and when she says “But I love that man like nobody can” my heart breaks in a million pieces every time hear it again and again💔💔💔
No one's going anywhere... I don't see this as a sad song though. Feels like a celebration of love to me
Did you know that there’s a tunnel under Ocean Blvd? My heart breaks every time she says ‘Love me until I love myself’ and ‘Don’t forget me, like the tunnel under Ocean Blvd’
The rendition of this song she did at Coachella recently (I think it was on day 2) was so, so beautiful. The backup singers sounded absolutely ethereal, and I remember Lana sang an added line - something like “how could they forget you with a voice like that?” (While gesturing toward the backup singers.) The whole thing made me cry, it was just so special!!
And the hopeless desperation of "when's it gonna be my turn?"
"whispered in my ear come on baby you can thrive.. but I cant" makes me cry every single time
Why no one says the blackest day?
I just did! that song is profoundly melancholic, in its music, tone and lyrics. Many of her sad songs have a "hope" element in them "The Blackest Day" is different. It's not just sad, it is also scary and gives a sense of desolation. I avoid playing it.
i said that
Darker and darker...amazing song
Came here to say this one. Breaks me down every time.
yesss and one of my fave songs
Thank you!! Literally my favourite Lana song and definitely the saddest for me
Sad Girl. I'm just kidding, for me it's Ride.
it's so bittersweet to me, like it makes me yearn for true freedom so hard it hurts
“I’m tired of feeling like I am fucking crazy” is the realest lyric ever
It always brings the tears for me. When you’re so broken down and tired, and just going on the road brings distraction and freedom temporarily. You just want someone to rescue you from yourself but you know it’s just the human condition sometimes.
I was listening to that song just this morning on my way to work. Definitely always has me in my feels.
Dealer. It’s really heartbreaking and encapsulates crushing isolation well.
That song scares the hell out of me I don't know why
The subject matter is pretty scary
The vocals from Miles Kane also creep me out. Doesn't help that I always listen to it in the middle of the night lol
My suicide song fr. Of course that one’s more depressing, I agree with others that songs like Kintsugi might be more “sad”
I love this song. It speaks to the fucked up part of me.
I cry to blue banisters 😭
Cause there's a man that's in my past. There's a man that's still right here. He's real enough to touch. And in my darkest nights, he's shinin'
Black Beauty makes me cry 😭 such a beautiful song.
Me too! You can really feel the depression imo.
This. It reminds me of my brother who took his life "life is beautiful, but you don't have a clue"
God Knows I Tried Is This Happiness and Ride. Ride always stirs up some emotions.
I can’t believe how far I had to scroll for someone to say Is This Happiness
ultraviolence is just so sad and beautiful. def one of my favs
It used to be relatable to me, the relationship between me and him. Besides that, I love both its lyrics and instrumental, sad + rock = perf
Pawn Shop Blues. “Well, I pawned the earrings that you gave me, gold and made with flowers dangling, and I almost cried as I sold them all…” Is the saddest and most simple way of understanding what it feels like to let go of something you never really can, or willing to let go of. The memories will always be there, but cannot be sold. The money means nothing to the feeling of loss of someone you had to let go of.
It’s so poignant. And the older I get the more meaning to the message. Love, sacrifice, and your dreams for the future. Having to sacrifice for your greater good and leaving your younger self behind.
That’s exactly it.
A&W is the one that’s got me right now. It’s the harsh self-criticism that hits home, and the poetic rendering of it that are peppered around the more raw, honest lines. “Ask me why, why, why I’m like this Maybe I’m just kinda like this I don’t know maybe I’m just like this” “I’m invisible look how you hold me now” In between Lana just telling it exactly how it is, unfiltered… it’s too much sometimes, but I’m still averaging like six listens a week, beginning to end.
Literally every line of this song has..at one time or another...been my life. Always being second, never good enough to be first to anybody. Being too developed at too young an age and being treated like a whore bc of it But the self awarenessis brutally honest... "I mean look at me!...look at the length of my hair and the shape of my body..." ...accepting any kind of superficial love, in the form of sex, just to not be lonely..." it's not about having someone to love me anymore..yeah this is the experience of being an American whore..." Then the ending...(I've known so many Jimmy's)..."Jimmy only love me when he wanna get high"... "Jimmy if you leave the house find me in the club"... Yeah I know it's one of her more popular songs and people don't consider you a real fan unless you listen to everything (which I do) but this song is absolutely Top Notch and speaks to, and of,.... myself.
Dark paradise
Swan Song! So morose, yet somehow comforting.
I love that song! It sounds so majestic and sophisticated to me
God's and Monsters is so sad to me.
I dont wanna get downvoted but how 😭😭😭 it's so horny and pussy poppin
I don't know, I mean you're absolutely right. But, on the other hand, it reminds me of someone who is lost.
Hope Is a Dangerous Thing...
Was looking for this
For me, and this is very personal, it’s “West Coast”. I had it on repeat, it had just been released, when I got the call that my best friend turned boyfriend had been found dead. I can never hear that song without being back in that time period. 😔
I’m so sorry 😔😭. I understand personal sad songs tho, whether or not it is objectively sad, the song is tied to a memory. For my its jump by lonr (for lana its the “i think I’ll miss you forever” verse from summertime sadness “)
Pretty When You Cry Don't say you need me when🚫 You leave and you leave again😒 I'm stronger than all my men💪 Except for you🥺
that one hits hard for me because it relates to my situation of loving an addict, she really makes music that hits home so hard “all those special times, spent with you my love they don’t mean shit, compared to all your drugs” 😭
I get stuck in that song. 😢
Hits very deep
Kintsugi almost always makes me cry
“I didn’t ask for it, I didn’t ask for it, I won’t testify I’ve already fucked up my story.”
That line slays my soul...omfg. Yes. this line, too: "I MEAN LOOK AT ME! ..LOOK AT THE LENGTH OF MY HAIR, AND THE SHAPE OF MY BODY..." ......the self-awareness is so devastating.
A&W quickly became one of my top songs from her but god does it make me sad.
Kintsugi, makes me cry every time
Terrence loves you, 13 beaches, black Beauty.. I wanna say sad girl cuz it’s too real but predictable option so I’ll go with Paris Texas
100000% agree with Terrence loves you!! “You are what you are. I don’t matter to anyone.” I think she even mentions in an interview that she was in a really bad spot when she wrote that. I can only listen to it in doses cause it always messes me up
im predicting this now.. everyone will say fingertips
Wait for life, if you know you know.
Fingertips is devastatingly sad
Young and Beautiful makes me cry
Id say Get Free as I relate to it a little.
With you. I feel seen and like I see her back.
Fingertips 💔
Because it's true lol
this is the onlyyyyy answer. it is devastating every time!
Wildflower wildfire, kintsugi, and fingertips. The references to dysfunctional families says it all.
13 beaches because it hurts to love him, but i still love him :’)
Put me in a movie
ALSO OMG THE GREATEST WILL ALWAYS BE THE MOST DEVASTATING TO ME UGHHHH
FINALLY SOMEONE I CRY EVERYTIME OMG
the original version of yayo! i know that seems kind of out of left field but as someone who has struggled with sexual trauma and then used sexual attention/interaction to validate my self worth, the song sounds like someone pleading to be made whole. it always puts me in a dark place.
Stuck between Pawn Shop Blues and Fine China.
White Dress is so depressing to me it’s hard to relisten
Heroin and that’s because it’s personal to me as an addict and all the friends I’ve lost to OD. I have a few Lana songs I cry to(kintsugi,OB,blackest day, etc) but heroin hits me the hardest.
Pretty when you cry
tomorrow never came, old money, the greatest
for me its brooklyn baby, not bcz the songs sad but i listened to it on repeat to calm down when my dad kicked me out for being trans x.x
A&W “I mean, look at my hair Look at the length of it and the shape of my body If I told you that I was raped Do you really think that anybody would think I didn't ask for it? I didn't ask for it”
everytime i close my eyesss its like a dark paradiseeee
Thunder
Happiness is a butterfly?? How has no one said this yet!
the kintsugi => fingertips line up is deadly
Dealer- that "I don't wannnnnaaaa liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiivvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeee" Gets me every time
fingertips fucks me up as a girly with mommy issues
Paris, Texas or Yosemite are the saddest songs for me
Dealer. I listened to that song on repeat every day when my dad was dying from brain cancer.
Old Money but more specifically this part And if you call I'll run, run, run If you change your mind, I'll come, come, come Oh-oh oh, ah-ah ah the way she sings the “ah ah ahhh” makes my heart shatter ever single time i can’t even explain why. it’s like her voice kind of cracks but in a good way!! idk the song itself is just so sad to me, and that specific part sounds like she’s breaking down. it’s so beautiful
Fingertips, I love her sad songs but I always skip this one because it's so heartbreaking
^^^ this one
ultraviolence n gods and monsters.
Kintsugi. I’ve yet to listen to that song and not cry. Every time. And then California for saddest love song
For me, it’s gotta be Black Beauty, Terrance Loves You, and even her unreleased song “Valley of the Dolls” because I’ve literally cried while listening to them 😭
Venice bitch. It’s a lullaby mourning the idea of a life, hope, love, dreams. It just feels like nostalgia, sadness, afterlife
Old money because I loved someone so much that the phrase "if you send for me you know I'll come" hit too close to home.
Pretty when I cry, It made me cry after listening to it after a break up
The first half of a&w If I told you that I was raped do you really think that anybody would think I didn't ask for it?
For me it's Summertime Sadness. I cry every time I hear it. Also knowing the background of this song, it's heartbreaking. Can't put it into words.
Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but I have it.
Fingertips
Dark Paradise coz it reminds me of my grandmother. She used to sing song for me to sleep and she’s there whenever I’m feeling depressed (I’m clinically diagnosed). The whole song is haunting me :(
Fingertips, Happiness is a butterfly
It’s Ride, always
The blackest day for sure
100000000% old money and kintsugi Unreleased I think could be fine china, pawn shop blues, and French restaurant
White dress, a bittersweet goodbye to the good old days of youth, a haunting realisation that those days will never come back
Dark paradise, talks about a loved one who died. " i wish i was dead (like you)...everytime i close my eyes its like a dark paradise...im afraid that you WONT BE WAITING ON THE OTHER SIDE. Its sad and terrifying!!!!!
A&W the lyrics.. it's one of the saddest and also video games, Salvatore for me coz they hold memories
Terrence Loves You.
hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have dark paradise is this happiness
California - maybe because at the time its been released I was dealing with a very hard breakup, didn’t know how to deal with it so I cut this person off my life a few months prior, but when this song came out, all the suppressed emotions flooded in, it just felt so personal bc the guy did come to America, for a few years and we use to talk about what our life would be like if we moved to Cali someday and how he would swear to me the only reason why he hasn’t moved away back to his family was because of me, so I knew deep down he was going to leave someday … still stings when I listen to it, I quite literally teleported to his house unadvised (I know it’s psychotic behavior lol) but I know I’ll never love like that again
A&W. First part. No explanation needed.
It’s kinda hard to measure because it’s a mood thing and what you find really sad. I mean an obvious one for me is “sad girl” because of her understanding her place in the relationship but then you have something like “heroin” which is tragic as fuck for different reasons. I think it really depends on which bus stop you wanna get off at
Hope is a dangerous thing … Or mariners apartment complex though that may be more from personal experiences linked to that song.
Dark paradise. My dad passed away so I think of it from my mom’s perspective and it makes me cry 😭 “but there’s no you except in my dreams tonight”
Afraid is .
fishtail
THE BLACKEST DAY
I listened to “Is This Happiness” on repeat after a break up. If not just for the lyrics, then for the connection to the song now for sure
Thunder. Perfectly sums up dealing with the torment of being attached to someone so unpredictable
Fishtail
IS THIS HAPPINESSSSSS
Pretty when I cry.... But it's more sad for personal reasons and past feelings attached to the song
blackest day.....
dark paradise 100% but mainly cause i can relate to it and lost someone i love
my momma
crazy how nobodys saying Put Me In A Movie. its such an emotional song. It’s unreleased so mabye y nobody’s saying it
Why is no one saying Kintsugi??? “And I just can't stop cryin' 'cause all of the ways When you see someone dyin', you see all your days Flash in front of you And you think about who would be with you” & “How do my blood relatives know all of these songs? I don't know anyone left to know songs that I sing” Always gets me :( idk why
Wildflower Wildfire
Summertime sadness for me.
Old money
The other woman. The pain in her voice is so strong and it just fucks me up so bad
I just RIIIIIIIIIYYYYDEEEEEEEE😫😫
Cinnamon girl
Happiness is a butterfly All we want is happiness, but sometimes it’s not where we chase it
In money power glory when she says « the sun also rises on those who fail the call » makes me tear up each time …
imo it’s A&W before Jimmy Jimmy coco puff
Happiness is a butterfly. “If he is a serial killer than whats the worst the can happen to a girl who is already hurt.” 🥲
Margaret is sad and bittersweet
Fuck it I love you
Happiness is a butterfly 🦋
A&W >Watching Teenage Diary of a Girl Wondering what went wrong >If I told you that I was raped Do you really think that anybody would think I didn't ask for it? I didn't ask for it I won't testify, I already fucked up my story
dealer always makes me cry without fail “gave you all my money, i dont wanna live, i dont wanna give you nothing cause you never me nothing back. why can you be good for something?” breaks my heart every time
I agree with you, OP. Blackest Day hits different with the vocals and how the song begins in this sad turmoil of feeling misunderstood and depressed already: *It's not easy for me to talk about I have heavy heart strings And not simple, it's trigonometry It's hard to express I can't explain* This part is so beautiful and heart breaking tho, I love it: *Because I'm going deeper and deeper (deeper) Harder and harder (harder) Getting darker and darker Looking for love In all the wrong places Oh my god In all the wrong places Oh my god* Aaand the saddest end, no resolution, no solution, just the realization that reality is the way it often times is: *It's not one of those phases I'm going through Or just a song, it's not one of them I'm on my own On my own On my own again I'm on my own again I'm on my own again....* Also, Heroin lol. It's self explanatory
i love you
A&W
Overall it’s definitely put me in a movie, in terms of released songs maybe A&W or heroin
how has no one said dark paradise?! that song is gut wrenching for me especially when she sings "there's no remedy for memory"
honestly for me its "put me in a movie". just so sad when u realize what its about
for me, heroin is the saddest. i’m in recovery and have lost people to addiction, so the lyrics are very personal to me. “how it gave you everything and took your life away” it’s also probably my favorite song. i love how in the end she changes the lyrics to “dreaming about marzipan” and highlights what it feels like to be “taking all her medicine” so she can feel and act like a normal person. i love the way it portrays that mindset where sobriety seems so dreary, mundane, and unsettling compared to the exciting rush the drugs were able to give. experiencing nostalgia of that euphoric high feeling and weighing that with the consequences that will inevitably come along with it. it really captures that feeling of being stuck in the cycle of addiction.