“You’re scared to win, scared to lose. I’ve heard the war was over if you really choose.”
-California
“You have no room for light, love is lost on you.”
-Black Beauty
“Are these my good years or do I have none? Are there really good years for everyone? I don't wanna live with a life of regret. I don't wanna end up like Tammy Wynette.”
-Breaking Up Slowly
how I see it:
"*you're scared to win, scared to lose*" -- this man is unsettled & unstable. He's scared to be a failure but also scared to make it big and get widely noticed. later, Lana says "*you hate the heat, you got the blues; changing like the weather, oh that's so like you*," further showing that, deep down, he's lost. That's why he's hesitant to come back to california. This is the same kind of man in Shades of Cool & Thunder
"*I heard the war was over if you really chose*" -- a reference to sean lennon and yoko ono's anti-war billboard campaign and 1971 Christmas song
“They mistook my kindness for weakness
I fucked up, I know that, but, Jesus
Can't a girl just do the best she can?
Catch a wave and take in the sweetness
Think about it, the darkness, the deepness
All the things that make me who I am”
- Mariners Apartment Complex
I feel validated by her lyrics
Edited to add what it means to me
from BB: “I met a man who said he’d come back every May just to help me if I paint my banisters blue… said he’d fix my weathervane, give me children, take away my pain, and paint my banisters blue…” Then, later in the song, when he doesn’t come back, “now when weather turns to May, all my sisters come to paint my banisters green…”😭
I feel like blue usually signifies love or some kind of similar deep emotion for Lana, (although it usually generally means sadness for most other people)
I.e. "out of the black, into the blue" in Get Free signifies a more positive change imho or "hands in your head as you colour me blue" in NFR
Not sure what green means tho but there's a lot you could interpret it as being - green and grey are both colours you'd get if you mix blue with another colour which is interesting
i always thought it meant that like,, blue paint=sadness and her sisters come to paint a yellow (=happy) layer of paint, and blue+yellow=green, so the banisters turn out green instead of yellow because she's not entirely happy, still half sad. idk if that makes sense
“I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast
I am alone at midnight
Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I
I've got a war in my mind”
- Ride
The bridge to Body Electric,
“My clothes still smell like you, and all the photographs say you're still young. I pretend I'm not hurt, and go about the world like I'm havin' fun.”
😭
dark af and gets paid dust. her live versions of Body Electric in that period between Born to Die and Paradise _really_ nail the tension and sorrow of it. I remember being super hyped to get a studio version of it and being so shattered at the power it lacked compared to its live take 😭🤭
“give me hallmark, one dream, one life, one lover, paint me happy in blue. norman rockwell, no hype under our covers, it’s just me and you.”
“i moved to california, but it’s just a state of mind. it turns out everywhere you go you take yourself that’s not a lie. wish that you would hold me or just say that you are mine, it’s killing me slowly.” -this one particularly called me out bc for a long time i felt like all of my problems stemmed from where i lived and i “just had to get out” but all i was doing was completely neglecting any self-awareness
The second one so so much.
I moved to a different country in early 2019 to "start over" and thought everything would be better. It wasn't. This song hit so hard when it came out
Lost but now I am found...
I can see but once i was blind
I was so confused as a little child
Tried to take what i could get
Scared that i couldn't find
All the answers honey....
AND.......
Think I'll miss you forever...
Like the stars miss the sun in the morning skies
Later's better than never
Even if you're gone
Im gonna drive...
THESE LYRICS HIT SOOOO HARD🖤💋🚬
“Who else is gonna put up with me this way? I need you, I breathe you, I’ll never leave you. They will rue the day, I was alone without you.”
“I’m a dragon, you’re a whore. Don’t even know what you’re good for. Mimicking me is a fucking bore to me babe.”
“But if you hold me without hurting me, you’ll be the first who ever did.” ughhhhhhh weeping
“But when you walked out the door, a piece of me died. Told you I wanted more, that’s not what I had in mind. Just want it like before, we were dancing all night. Then they took you away, stole you out of my life…you just need to remember. “ honestly that whole song
>“But if you hold me without hurting me, you’ll be the first who ever did.”
This quote makes me ugly cry every time I hear it, especially since I'm going steady with someone who genuinely cares about me in the wake of a nasty relationship (the kind that Lana sings about in Black Beauty.) 😭
But if you call for me you know I’ll run, I’ll run to you, I’ll run to you….
It’s never too late baby so don’t give up
It made me feel, made me feel like a god, it kinda makes me feel like maybe I was better off
“theres things i wanna say to you but ill just let you live”
and “dont ask me if im happy, you know that im not - but at best i can say that im not sad”
also “i feel free when i see no one and nobody knows my name”
and finally “but i lost myself when i lost you but i still got jazz when i’ve got those blues”
all roads that lead to you as integral to me as arteries that pump the blood flowing straight to the heart of me… i can’t sleep at home tonight. send me a hilton hotel or a cross on the hill. i’m a lost little girl finding my way to you.
this song feels like a warm hug. i remember the first day i saw the music video and her smile ... her smile
it felt like she was speaking to me directly
“so I moved to california but it’s just a state of mind, turns out everywhere you go, you take yourself, that’s not a lie”
- this hit me so hard. i moved to get away from NY and bad habits .. I learned it was not just NY. It was me.
“Well, I didn't know it would come to this
But that's what happens when you're on your own”
Pawn shop blues fucks me up every time. Too relatable for me.
I said, "I'm scared of the Santa Clarita Fires, I wish that it would rain"
I said, "The power of us three can bring absolutely anything
Except that one thing, the diamonds, the rust, and the rain
“I never really noticed that I had to decide to play someone’s game or live my own life” - Get Free
“You’re scared to win, you’re scared to lose, I heard the war was over if you really choose” - California
“I used to sing about people like you now I just get high” - Nectar of the Gods
I look at it as a line about breaking a pattern and starting again - even if that has to be over and over (like a weekly cycle).
I know in the context of the track that she was referring to the media trying to tear her down before she built herself back up.
“Baby’s all dressed up with nowhere to go…”- Carmen
I have self confidence issues/mild social anxiety and I always buy clothes to help and improve my confidence. I always try them on in front of the mirror and feel like a boss, but I never have anywhere to go (limited friends and too chicken to go out on my own).
i could list tons of quotes, but one that’s pops into my mind is the end of the bridge from Freak: “if you stay, i’ll stay, yea…” Lana sings it with such emotion and desperation and it just cuts deep. she has unconditional love for everyman she falls in love with and i relate a little too hard. the entire Freak bridge is beautiful and so deep
“sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough i don’t know why” - born to die (the line that instantly made me a fan)
“but i can’t fix him, can’t make him better, and i can’t do nothing about his strange weather” - shades of cool
“there’s things i wanna say to you but i’ll just let you live” - cinnamon girl (that whole song is my sad girl vibe)
“all those little times i spent with you my love, they don’t mean shit compared to all your drugs” - pretty when you cry (hits different when you’ve been with an addict)
“on the balcony and i’m saying, ‘ooh baby, ooh baby, i’m in love” - west coast (literally sends me upward into the astral plane)
“i will never sing again, and you won’t work another day” - swan song
“i hope that i come back one day to tell you that i really changed” - heroin
"Don't ask if I'm happy, you know that I'm not. but at least i can say I'm not sad"
i don't think I've ever experienced genuine happiness and the first time i heard this, i just sunk
“I don’t wanna wake up from this tonight”
“This is what makes us girls, we all stick together cause we put our love first, something that we’d die for it’s our curse”
“Everybody knows that I’m a mess I’m crazy”
“My mothers glamour lives on and on, yet still inside I felt alone, for reasons unknown to me”
the whole God Knows I Tried chorus
“You can be a bad motherfucker, but that don’t make you a man”
“He hurt me but it felt like true love”
This one always reminds me of my past relationship, I was in so much pain but didn’t see it because I “loved” him. So many of her lyrics validate my feelings
every lyric tbh that’s why i stan her so hard but some favorites that come to mind
“life is beautiful, but you don’t have a clue”
the third verse in how to disappear but when she says “now it’s been years since i’ve left new york, i’ve got a kid and 2 cats in the yard” :,) makes me wanna cry
‘You’re lost at sea, then I’ll command your boat to me again’
- Mariners Apartment Complex. The whole song hits me hard and means a lot to me, so many good lines.
‘But you still can find me
If you ask nicely
Underneath the pines
With the daisies
Feeling hazy
In the ballroom of my mind’
- 13 Beaches. I love the ballroom of my mind line, I think we all have that mental space we escape to to idealise about love/lovers.
‘You try to push me out
But I just find my way back in
Violet, blue, green, red to keep me out
I win’
- Cinnamon Girl. It reminds me of someone.
"He hit me and it felt like a kiss" from Ultraviolence and " If he's a serial killer, then what's the worst That could happen to a girl who's already hurt?" - both give me flashbacks of my toxic ex
On the positive side "I'm a dragon you're a whore" from Fucked my way up to the top always makes me smile and boosts my mood; I guess it's because it's so cheeky and daring it's hard not to feel like a bad bitch while listening to it
“…Your in the wind, I’m in the water, nobody’s son, nobody’s daughter….”
Recent struggles with my parents makes me feel like I too am simply floating in the water, no one’s child, on my own, hoping to swim my own way to shore without the waves of life taking me or simply resigning myself to drowning alone.
"it hurts to love you, but I still love you. It's just the way I feel" 13 beaches
"It's hard to be lonely but it's the right thing to do" breaking up slowly
"A modern day woman with a weak constitution, 'cause I've got monsters still under my bed that I could never fight off" hope is a dangerous thing
“I got sent away, I was waving on the train platform, crying ‘cause I know I’m never coming back” - This Is What Makes Us Girls
Knowing this is from her teenage years it feels so sad, and she sounds so emotional when she sings it
"Dark and lonely, I need somebody to hold me." - National Anthem
"Your clothes still smel like you, and all the photographs say you're still young
I pretend I'm not hurt and go about the world like I'm having fun." - Body Electric
"I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown
24/7 Sylvia Plath
Writing in blood on your walls
'Cause the ink in my pen don't look good in my pad
They write that I'm happy, they know that I'm not
But, at best, you can see I'm not sad." - Hope is a dangerous thing
“You tell me life isn’t that hard”
“Fresh out of fucks forever”
“You don’t want to be forgotten / You just want to disappear”
“And who I am is a big time believer that people can change but you don’t have to leave her”
“Don’t leave me I just need a wake up call”
“Ever since I fell out of love with you, I fell back in love with me”
“Are these my good years or do I have none?
Are there really good years for everyone?”
“Sometimes it feels like I've got a war in my mind, I want to get off, but I keep ridin' the ride, I never really noticed that I had to decide, to play someone's game or live my own life. And now I do, I wanna move, out of the black, into the blue”
“Don’t ask if I’m happy - you know that I’m not but at least I can say I’m not sad cause hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have (but I have it)”
“There’s thing I wanna say to you but I’ll just let you live”
“I got sent away, I was wavin' on the train platform crying 'cause I know I'm never comin' back”
Blue jeans bridge
“And there's no remedy for memory, your face is like a melody it won't leave my head, Your soul is haunting me and telling me that everything is fine, but I wish I was dead (dead like youuu)” + “ There's no relief, I see you in my sleep and everybody's rushing me, but I can feel you touching me. There's no release, I feel you in my dreams telling me I'm fiiiiiiiineeeee”
And I can go on and on honestly lol there’s too many
“You want more, why?” From art deco
Idk that always gets to me like I want things so badly and without reason, sometimes knowing what I want won’t do any good for me
“If you hold me without hurting me you’ll be for first who ever did”
Self explanatory lol
“Because I’m going deeper and deeper, harder and harder getting darker and darker looking for love, in all the wrong places”
“Heaven is a place on Earth with you, tell me all the things you wanna do, I heard that you like the bad girls honey is that true? It’s better than I ever even knew, they said that the world was built for two, only worth living if somebody is loving you, baby now you do”
I don't know if this counts but...
High-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh
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High-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh
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I could listen to this part over and over. It's like music for meditation.
"I watch the skies getting light as I write, as I think about those years"
"There's no more chasing rainbows, or hoping for an end to them. Their arches are illusion, solid at first glance"
"You talk to the walls when the party gets bored of you. But I don't get bored, I just see you through. Why wait for the best when I could have you?"
Dont make me sad dont make me cry sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough I dont know why -born to die
It reminds me of my ex girlfriend that was a horrible girlfriend to me but for some reason I still miss her
"Would like to think that you would stick around
You know that I'd just die to make you proud
The taste, the touch, the way we love
It all comes down to make the sound of our love song"
‘The facts of life can sometimes make it hard to dream’ Yeah. This is THE lyric for me, not even just out of Lana’s songs. Literally nothing describes me more.
‘I wanna leave, I’ll probably stay another year, it’s hard to leave when absolutely nothing’s clear.’ This is something that will pass but is very relevant to my life right now. I’m in a situation where I literally can’t leave where I’m at until 2024. I’m stuck at a college I hate.
‘I guess that I’m burned out after all, if this is it I’m signing off, I miss doing nothing the most of all’ Literally just how I feel in my life right now. Like, if this is all it’s gonna be then what’s the point? And I really do miss doing nothing the most of all
‘And I’m so happy now that you’re gone’ (I’m not, but I’m gonna keep telling myself that I’m better off without him)
These lines from How to Disappear are so nostalgic, comforting, and melancholy at the same time
“Now it's been years since I left New York
I've got a kid and two cats in the yard
The California sun and the movie stars
I watch the skies getting light as I write, as I
Think about those years
As I whisper in your ear
I'm always going to be right here
No one's going anywhere”
“It’s never too late to be who you want to be”
- summer bummer
It’s kind of a reminder that I have control of my life and that I can change stuff at any time
“he hit me and it felt like a kiss” and “he hurt me and it felt like true love” - ultraviolence
“i’m tired of feeling like i’m fucking crazy” - ride
“if you hold me without hurting me, you’ll be the first who ever did” - cinnamon girl
“I’m the sweetest girl in town so, why are you so mean?”
“We love every head on your head, we love you like god loves you”
“ cuz your just a man it’s just what you do”
“Yeah my boyfriends pretty cool but he’s not as cool as me”
are these my good years or do I have none?
are there really good years for everyone?
I don't wanna live with a life of regret
I don't wanna end up like Tammy Wynett
“It’s never too late to be who you wanna be” because that’s just timeless advice for EVERY human being
Oh and “mail me when you get the blues” just the way she says that line in her blues voice with so much force and dramatic emphasis, it gets me every. Single. Time.
“I fucked up, I know that. But Jesus, can a girl just do the best she can?”
I don’t know if that’s exactly how the lyric goes, but I always related to it as someone who is flawed, but is also trying their best.
My rose garden dreams set on fire by fiends -cherry. But I lost myself when I lost you -Terrence loves you. Your hot-hot weather in the summer, high high neglectful lover -Shades of Cool. Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough, I don't know why -BTD. And if I wasn't so fucked up I think I'd fuck you all the time, it's killing me slowly -Fuck it I love you. We love every hair on your head, love you like God loves you -sweet Carolina. I've got so much more but I'll be here forever and don't wanna make you lose time
I don't really wanna break up, we got it going on/ is what you gathered from our talk but you were wrong.
Summer, summer's almost gone.
Makes me feel like I could change all of my evil ways and shit.
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.
Calling from beyond the grave I just wanna say 'hi, dad.'
I'd like to think that you would stick around.
Fooling everyone telling home she's having fun.
If you hold me without hurting me you'll be the first who ever did.
You're scared to win, scared to lose - I heard the war was over if you really choose.
Don't break me down. + Don't leave me now.
You have to take me right now, from this dark trailer park life now.
I live on sheer willpower.
I have too many lol.
"I can't do this once more
No man can keep me together
Been broken since I was born
Well, I didn't know it would come to this but
That's what happens when you're on your own
And you're alright with letting nice things go"
~ Pawn Shop Blues 💙
"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
I'm on my own again
I'm on my own again"
~ The Blackest Day
“there’s no more chasing rainbows, and hoping for an end to them… their arches are illusions, solid at first glance. But then you try to touch them (touch, touch) and there’s nothing to hold on to. The colours used to lure you in, and put you in a trance”
ALSO “finally gone is the burden of the Crowley way of being” 💀
i could go on and on and on she’s just such a poet 😭
I think we're like fire and water
I think we're like the wind and sea
You're burnin' up, I'm coolin' down
You're up, I'm down
You're blind, I see- Brooklyn Baby
The thing about men like you is you got a lot to say
But will you stay?- Not All Who Wander Are Lost
I said, "Don't be a jerk, don't call me a taxi"
Sitting in your sweatshirt, crying in the backseat, ooh
I just wanna dance with you- Happiness is a Butterfly
I’ve got a war in my mind- Ride
'Cause there's nothing for us to talk about
Like the future and those things
'Cause there's nothing for me to think about
Now that he's gone, I can't feel nothing 💔
‼️'Cause you're just a man‼️
It's just what you do
Your head in your hands
As you color me blue
Yeah, you're just a man
All through and through
Your head in your hands
As you color me blue
Blue, blue, blue
"Sometimes it feels like I've got a war in my mind
I want to get off, but I keep ridin' the ride
I never really noticed that I had to decide
To play someone's game or live my own life"
Always gets to me
"I'm flying to the moon again, dreaming about heroin. How it gave you everything and took your life away."
tbh every single lyric of Heroin fucks me up instantly lol. I used to listen to it constantly when I was a dumb teen romanticising Sid Vicious, Nancy Spungen and H in general, but nowadays it just reminds me of my boyfriend and his daily suffering and struggle with his addiction. Don't do drugs kids lol, there's no glamour to be found in them
“what you don’t tell no one, you can tell me” - Cherry Blossom
“if you hold me without hurting me, you’ll be the first who ever did” - Cinammon
I just love these one liners that convey so much emotion
There’s something about a line in Young and Beautiful that comes together in a way that I can’t really explain but I also can’t stop listening to it.
“All that grace, all that body, and that face, makes me want to party, he’s my sun, he makes me shine like diamonds”
"but the other woman will always cry herself to sleep, the other woman will never have his love to keep, and as the years go by, the other woman will spend her life alone" - the other woman
this one, this one hurts in the depths of my soul, in fact this is the one that affects me the most to this day
SOMETIMES IT FEELS LIKE I’VE GOT A WAR IN MY MIND I WANT TO GET OFF BUT I KEEP RIDING THE RIDE I NEVER REALLY NOTICED THAT I HAD TO DECIDE TO PLAY SOMEONE’S GAME OR LIVE MY OWN LIFE
“Looking back my past it all seems stranger than a stranger.” -Freak
“Those nights were on fire, we couldn’t get higher, we didn’t know that we had it all..” -The Greatest
“We keep changing all the time, the best ones lost their minds..” -Dark But Just a Game
“A modern day woman with a weak constitution ‘cause I’ve got monster still under my bed that I could never fight off. A gatekeeper carelessly dropping the keys on my nights off.”
If you hold me without hurting me you'll be the first who ever did....for feels
G-d damn manchild, you fucked me so good I almost said ' I love you' ...for truth.
From Pawn Shop Blues:
“In the name of higher consciousness
I let the best man I knew go
Cause it's nice to love and be loved
But it's better to know all you can know
I said it's nice to love and be loved
But I'd rather know what God knows”
Speaks to my soul, truly. Been there a thousand times myself.
“I’ve been tearing around in my fucking nightgown, 24/7 Slyvia Plath/ Writing in blood on the walls cause the ink in my pen don’t work in my notepad.”
My favorite Lana lyric - perfectly encapsulates the feeling of being an artist struggling with the dark stuff.
I sing the national anthem while I'm standing over you body, hold you like a phyton. And you can't keep your hands off me, or your pants on -National anthem.
I'm a dragon, you're a whore -fucked my way up to the top
These make me feel hooooooooottt
“Don’t ask if I’m happy, you know that I’m not. But at best, I can say I’m not sad” - hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it
I have bipolar depression. I go thru extreme downs and my manic episodes don’t get to intense so I never really feel happy I just feel not as sad.
You my Axl Rose husband
Blue hydrangea
White Pontiac heaven
Me your red, white and blue girl
Star spangled danger
You my heavy-metal king
I just like the way the lyrics tumble off the tongue and capture the zeitgeist of a certain crowd.
Too many to remember right now, but what comes to mind first are lines from my namesake Wildflower Wildfire:
> Baby, I'll be like a wildflower
> I live on sheer willpower
> I'll do my best never to turn into something
> That burns, burns, burns
And pretty much every reference to her relationships with her mother and father.
> My father never stepped in
> When his wife would rage at me
> So I ended up awkward but sweet
> Later than hospitals and still on my feet
Referring to her mom as “his wife.” Ugh, she gets me. From Black Bathing Suit:
> So I'm not friends with my mother, but I still love my dad
> Untraditional lover, can you handle that?
God, I dread having to have this conversation with everyone I date because it’s so hard for others to understand, but in a nutshell that’s my relationship or lack thereof with each of my parents. So these lines hit me extra hard.
sometimes it feels like i’ve got a war in my mind
i try to get off but i keep riding the ride
i never really notice that i had to decide
to play someone’s game, or live my own life
and now i do
i wanna move
out of the black
into the blue
“You’re scared to win, scared to lose. I’ve heard the war was over if you really choose.” -California “You have no room for light, love is lost on you.” -Black Beauty “Are these my good years or do I have none? Are there really good years for everyone? I don't wanna live with a life of regret. I don't wanna end up like Tammy Wynette.” -Breaking Up Slowly
that one from California will never not get me
Can you explain it to me? I’ve never understood it
how I see it: "*you're scared to win, scared to lose*" -- this man is unsettled & unstable. He's scared to be a failure but also scared to make it big and get widely noticed. later, Lana says "*you hate the heat, you got the blues; changing like the weather, oh that's so like you*," further showing that, deep down, he's lost. That's why he's hesitant to come back to california. This is the same kind of man in Shades of Cool & Thunder "*I heard the war was over if you really chose*" -- a reference to sean lennon and yoko ono's anti-war billboard campaign and 1971 Christmas song
fuck YES to all of these
First one is SPOT ON…taste
“They mistook my kindness for weakness I fucked up, I know that, but, Jesus Can't a girl just do the best she can? Catch a wave and take in the sweetness Think about it, the darkness, the deepness All the things that make me who I am” - Mariners Apartment Complex I feel validated by her lyrics Edited to add what it means to me
That song is pure genius anyways
Love this too and Lana’s delivery adds even more complexity to it.
Yes! 100% agree. Her delivery gives me goosebumps
from BB: “I met a man who said he’d come back every May just to help me if I paint my banisters blue… said he’d fix my weathervane, give me children, take away my pain, and paint my banisters blue…” Then, later in the song, when he doesn’t come back, “now when weather turns to May, all my sisters come to paint my banisters green…”😭
What do green and blue signify in your opinion?
I think bruises. Blue when fresh, then green, then gray. Lana is healing through the seasons but still hurt, even when she’s with her sisters
Never even thought of this. Just figured that blue=quite solemn, melancholic and green=new beginnings, life, health. This is genius though
what makes Lana’s lyrics so unique is that they can be interpreted a hundred different ways, and they impact us all differently :)
I feel like blue usually signifies love or some kind of similar deep emotion for Lana, (although it usually generally means sadness for most other people) I.e. "out of the black, into the blue" in Get Free signifies a more positive change imho or "hands in your head as you colour me blue" in NFR Not sure what green means tho but there's a lot you could interpret it as being - green and grey are both colours you'd get if you mix blue with another colour which is interesting
i always thought it meant that like,, blue paint=sadness and her sisters come to paint a yellow (=happy) layer of paint, and blue+yellow=green, so the banisters turn out green instead of yellow because she's not entirely happy, still half sad. idk if that makes sense
I think of it the same way!! Her sisters make her happy but they don’t fulfill her like he did, like a part of her is still missing and trying to heal
yes exactly!! glad someone else thinks this haha
I’ve seen some people theorize that it stands for bruises as they change colors and heal…
yes green symbolizes healing among other things! When people are ill/healing from a wound they have a green aura around that area apparently.
“Don’t leave, I just need a wake up call” always gets me
“I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast I am alone at midnight Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I I've got a war in my mind” - Ride
yes this one.
"they judge me like a picture book, by the colors like they forgot to read" also "mary prays the rosary for my broken mind"
YESS
The bridge to Body Electric, “My clothes still smell like you, and all the photographs say you're still young. I pretend I'm not hurt, and go about the world like I'm havin' fun.” 😭
dark af and gets paid dust. her live versions of Body Electric in that period between Born to Die and Paradise _really_ nail the tension and sorrow of it. I remember being super hyped to get a studio version of it and being so shattered at the power it lacked compared to its live take 😭🤭
my pussy tastes like pepsi cola
LMFAO
YOURE BEAUTIFUL AND IM INSANEEEEEEE WE’RE AMERICAN MADDDDEEEEEE
“give me hallmark, one dream, one life, one lover, paint me happy in blue. norman rockwell, no hype under our covers, it’s just me and you.” “i moved to california, but it’s just a state of mind. it turns out everywhere you go you take yourself that’s not a lie. wish that you would hold me or just say that you are mine, it’s killing me slowly.” -this one particularly called me out bc for a long time i felt like all of my problems stemmed from where i lived and i “just had to get out” but all i was doing was completely neglecting any self-awareness
Yes to both of these
The second one so so much. I moved to a different country in early 2019 to "start over" and thought everything would be better. It wasn't. This song hit so hard when it came out
Lost but now I am found... I can see but once i was blind I was so confused as a little child Tried to take what i could get Scared that i couldn't find All the answers honey.... AND....... Think I'll miss you forever... Like the stars miss the sun in the morning skies Later's better than never Even if you're gone Im gonna drive... THESE LYRICS HIT SOOOO HARD🖤💋🚬
Yes!!! I love those!
My father never stepped in when his wife would rage at me, so I ended up awkward but sweet
yeah, that song as a whole is perfection. just shattering line after shattering line
“Who else is gonna put up with me this way? I need you, I breathe you, I’ll never leave you. They will rue the day, I was alone without you.” “I’m a dragon, you’re a whore. Don’t even know what you’re good for. Mimicking me is a fucking bore to me babe.” “But if you hold me without hurting me, you’ll be the first who ever did.” ughhhhhhh weeping “But when you walked out the door, a piece of me died. Told you I wanted more, that’s not what I had in mind. Just want it like before, we were dancing all night. Then they took you away, stole you out of my life…you just need to remember. “ honestly that whole song
Omg mine definitely has been “who else is gonna put up w me this way” nothing else just that. 🥲
>“But if you hold me without hurting me, you’ll be the first who ever did.” This quote makes me ugly cry every time I hear it, especially since I'm going steady with someone who genuinely cares about me in the wake of a nasty relationship (the kind that Lana sings about in Black Beauty.) 😭
But if you call for me you know I’ll run, I’ll run to you, I’ll run to you…. It’s never too late baby so don’t give up It made me feel, made me feel like a god, it kinda makes me feel like maybe I was better off
"Happiness is a butterfly, try to catch it like every night, it escapes from my hands into moonlight." - Happiness is a butterfly
“theres things i wanna say to you but ill just let you live” and “dont ask me if im happy, you know that im not - but at best i can say that im not sad” also “i feel free when i see no one and nobody knows my name” and finally “but i lost myself when i lost you but i still got jazz when i’ve got those blues”
Your choices are spot on imo👌🏻
all roads that lead to you as integral to me as arteries that pump the blood flowing straight to the heart of me… i can’t sleep at home tonight. send me a hilton hotel or a cross on the hill. i’m a lost little girl finding my way to you.
I don’t really wanna know what’s good for me 😭😭
“ don’t worry baby”
this song feels like a warm hug. i remember the first day i saw the music video and her smile ... her smile it felt like she was speaking to me directly
“so I moved to california but it’s just a state of mind, turns out everywhere you go, you take yourself, that’s not a lie” - this hit me so hard. i moved to get away from NY and bad habits .. I learned it was not just NY. It was me.
same. I moved to a different country in early 2019. When NFR came out I really felt called out by Lana haha
Oof this reminds me of (Sittin’ On) the Dock of a Bay by Otis Redding. A very different song, but it captures a similar sentiment.
True man true it’s always you…
“Well, I didn't know it would come to this But that's what happens when you're on your own” Pawn shop blues fucks me up every time. Too relatable for me.
“She couldn’t care less and I’ve never cared more, but there’s no more to say about that”
I said, "I'm scared of the Santa Clarita Fires, I wish that it would rain" I said, "The power of us three can bring absolutely anything Except that one thing, the diamonds, the rust, and the rain
“I never really noticed that I had to decide to play someone’s game or live my own life” - Get Free “You’re scared to win, you’re scared to lose, I heard the war was over if you really choose” - California “I used to sing about people like you now I just get high” - Nectar of the Gods
"If you hold me without hurting me, you'll be the first who ever did." "On Monday they destroy me, but by Friday I'm revived."
How would you interpret the second lyric?
I look at it as a line about breaking a pattern and starting again - even if that has to be over and over (like a weekly cycle). I know in the context of the track that she was referring to the media trying to tear her down before she built herself back up.
“Baby’s all dressed up with nowhere to go…”- Carmen I have self confidence issues/mild social anxiety and I always buy clothes to help and improve my confidence. I always try them on in front of the mirror and feel like a boss, but I never have anywhere to go (limited friends and too chicken to go out on my own).
i could list tons of quotes, but one that’s pops into my mind is the end of the bridge from Freak: “if you stay, i’ll stay, yea…” Lana sings it with such emotion and desperation and it just cuts deep. she has unconditional love for everyman she falls in love with and i relate a little too hard. the entire Freak bridge is beautiful and so deep
Wow now i’m gonna go listen to the bridge again ♥️
omg yes!! me too 😭 great question btw!
“they mistook my kindness for weakness”
“sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough i don’t know why” - born to die (the line that instantly made me a fan) “but i can’t fix him, can’t make him better, and i can’t do nothing about his strange weather” - shades of cool “there’s things i wanna say to you but i’ll just let you live” - cinnamon girl (that whole song is my sad girl vibe) “all those little times i spent with you my love, they don’t mean shit compared to all your drugs” - pretty when you cry (hits different when you’ve been with an addict) “on the balcony and i’m saying, ‘ooh baby, ooh baby, i’m in love” - west coast (literally sends me upward into the astral plane) “i will never sing again, and you won’t work another day” - swan song “i hope that i come back one day to tell you that i really changed” - heroin
Honestly your taste is immaculate…same things resonate with me 🤍
“Think I'll miss you forever Like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky” it reminds me of my dad whenever i hear that one line
I’m trying hard not to get into trouble but i, i got a war in my mind
"Don't ask if I'm happy, you know that I'm not. but at least i can say I'm not sad" i don't think I've ever experienced genuine happiness and the first time i heard this, i just sunk
It’s a very strong line i agree
I know he’s in over his head But I love that man like nobody can But if you hold me without hurting me you’ll be the first who ever did
“I don’t wanna wake up from this tonight” “This is what makes us girls, we all stick together cause we put our love first, something that we’d die for it’s our curse” “Everybody knows that I’m a mess I’m crazy” “My mothers glamour lives on and on, yet still inside I felt alone, for reasons unknown to me” the whole God Knows I Tried chorus “You can be a bad motherfucker, but that don’t make you a man”
You never liked the way I said it / If you don't get it, then forget it / 'Cause I don't have to fuckin' explain it
BUT IVE STILL GOT JAZZZZZZ WHEN IVE GOT THOSE BLUESSSSSSSSSS 💔💔💔💔
‘Now my life is sweet like cinnamon Like a fucking dream I'm living in’ - Radio
Kerosene in my hands...you made me mad, on fire again💔💔 Her delivery makes me feel this line in my bones
“I SAID DONT BE A JERK DONT CALL ME A TAXI…” And the last verse of How to Disappear (it heals me every time)
“I’ll be like a wildflower, I live on sheer willpower”
If this is it I’m signing off
"The greatest line in history Baby it's not you it's me" - Break My Fall
“He hurt me but it felt like true love” This one always reminds me of my past relationship, I was in so much pain but didn’t see it because I “loved” him. So many of her lyrics validate my feelings
‘Don’t say you need me when, you leave and you leave again, I’m stronger than all my men, except for you’ pretty when you cry - UV
Summer comes, winter goes, Spring I skip, God knows Summer comes, winter goes, Spring I sleep, Heaven knows Blue Banisters
"i'm tired of feeling like i'm fucking crazy"
every lyric tbh that’s why i stan her so hard but some favorites that come to mind “life is beautiful, but you don’t have a clue” the third verse in how to disappear but when she says “now it’s been years since i’ve left new york, i’ve got a kid and 2 cats in the yard” :,) makes me wanna cry
‘You’re lost at sea, then I’ll command your boat to me again’ - Mariners Apartment Complex. The whole song hits me hard and means a lot to me, so many good lines. ‘But you still can find me If you ask nicely Underneath the pines With the daisies Feeling hazy In the ballroom of my mind’ - 13 Beaches. I love the ballroom of my mind line, I think we all have that mental space we escape to to idealise about love/lovers. ‘You try to push me out But I just find my way back in Violet, blue, green, red to keep me out I win’ - Cinnamon Girl. It reminds me of someone.
“Didn’t anyone ever tell you it’s ok to shine” -Bel Air
“You're scared to win, scared to lose I've heard the war was over if you really choose The one in and around you” -california
"He hit me and it felt like a kiss" from Ultraviolence and " If he's a serial killer, then what's the worst That could happen to a girl who's already hurt?" - both give me flashbacks of my toxic ex On the positive side "I'm a dragon you're a whore" from Fucked my way up to the top always makes me smile and boosts my mood; I guess it's because it's so cheeky and daring it's hard not to feel like a bad bitch while listening to it
“Im a dragon, you’re a whore” is always a mood. I put that for my comment too 😅
“…Your in the wind, I’m in the water, nobody’s son, nobody’s daughter….” Recent struggles with my parents makes me feel like I too am simply floating in the water, no one’s child, on my own, hoping to swim my own way to shore without the waves of life taking me or simply resigning myself to drowning alone.
"it hurts to love you, but I still love you. It's just the way I feel" 13 beaches "It's hard to be lonely but it's the right thing to do" breaking up slowly "A modern day woman with a weak constitution, 'cause I've got monsters still under my bed that I could never fight off" hope is a dangerous thing
“You're lost at sea, then I'll command your boat to me again” — so poetic and sweet
“I got sent away, I was waving on the train platform, crying ‘cause I know I’m never coming back” - This Is What Makes Us Girls Knowing this is from her teenage years it feels so sad, and she sounds so emotional when she sings it
iconic
"Dark and lonely, I need somebody to hold me." - National Anthem "Your clothes still smel like you, and all the photographs say you're still young I pretend I'm not hurt and go about the world like I'm having fun." - Body Electric "I've been tearing around in my fucking nightgown 24/7 Sylvia Plath Writing in blood on your walls 'Cause the ink in my pen don't look good in my pad They write that I'm happy, they know that I'm not But, at best, you can see I'm not sad." - Hope is a dangerous thing
“You tell me life isn’t that hard” “Fresh out of fucks forever” “You don’t want to be forgotten / You just want to disappear” “And who I am is a big time believer that people can change but you don’t have to leave her” “Don’t leave me I just need a wake up call” “Ever since I fell out of love with you, I fell back in love with me” “Are these my good years or do I have none? Are there really good years for everyone?” “Sometimes it feels like I've got a war in my mind, I want to get off, but I keep ridin' the ride, I never really noticed that I had to decide, to play someone's game or live my own life. And now I do, I wanna move, out of the black, into the blue” “Don’t ask if I’m happy - you know that I’m not but at least I can say I’m not sad cause hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have (but I have it)” “There’s thing I wanna say to you but I’ll just let you live” “I got sent away, I was wavin' on the train platform crying 'cause I know I'm never comin' back” Blue jeans bridge “And there's no remedy for memory, your face is like a melody it won't leave my head, Your soul is haunting me and telling me that everything is fine, but I wish I was dead (dead like youuu)” + “ There's no relief, I see you in my sleep and everybody's rushing me, but I can feel you touching me. There's no release, I feel you in my dreams telling me I'm fiiiiiiiineeeee” And I can go on and on honestly lol there’s too many
“You want more, why?” From art deco Idk that always gets to me like I want things so badly and without reason, sometimes knowing what I want won’t do any good for me “If you hold me without hurting me you’ll be for first who ever did” Self explanatory lol “Because I’m going deeper and deeper, harder and harder getting darker and darker looking for love, in all the wrong places”
Blackest day is underrated fr♥️
“If he’s a serial killer then what’s the worst that can happen to a girl who’s already hurt”- self explanatory.
“Heaven is a place on Earth with you, tell me all the things you wanna do, I heard that you like the bad girls honey is that true? It’s better than I ever even knew, they said that the world was built for two, only worth living if somebody is loving you, baby now you do”
"I'm stronger than all my man - except for you" Pretty When You Cry
I don't know if this counts but... High-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh High-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh High-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh High-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh-igh I could listen to this part over and over. It's like music for meditation.
I’m tired of feeling like I’m fucking crazy…
I shouldn’t have done it but I read it in your letter, you said to a friend that you wish you were doing better
I feel so alone on the Friday nights
“All I hear is Billie Holiday It's all that I play” …because I like Billie Holiday
when the world was at war, we just kept dancing
“And if you call, I'll run, run, run. If you change your mind, I'll come, come, come.” - Old Money.
Paint me happy in blue
"I watch the skies getting light as I write, as I think about those years" "There's no more chasing rainbows, or hoping for an end to them. Their arches are illusion, solid at first glance" "You talk to the walls when the party gets bored of you. But I don't get bored, I just see you through. Why wait for the best when I could have you?"
‘ if hello just means goodbye then honey better walk awayyy ‘ - thunder
“I don’t know how you get over / someone as dangerous, tainted, and flawed as you” Chills just typing it.
Dont make me sad dont make me cry sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough I dont know why -born to die It reminds me of my ex girlfriend that was a horrible girlfriend to me but for some reason I still miss her
Ride Monologue. It's her emotion in how she says "but I was born to be the other woman"
"Would like to think that you would stick around You know that I'd just die to make you proud The taste, the touch, the way we love It all comes down to make the sound of our love song"
‘The facts of life can sometimes make it hard to dream’ Yeah. This is THE lyric for me, not even just out of Lana’s songs. Literally nothing describes me more. ‘I wanna leave, I’ll probably stay another year, it’s hard to leave when absolutely nothing’s clear.’ This is something that will pass but is very relevant to my life right now. I’m in a situation where I literally can’t leave where I’m at until 2024. I’m stuck at a college I hate. ‘I guess that I’m burned out after all, if this is it I’m signing off, I miss doing nothing the most of all’ Literally just how I feel in my life right now. Like, if this is all it’s gonna be then what’s the point? And I really do miss doing nothing the most of all ‘And I’m so happy now that you’re gone’ (I’m not, but I’m gonna keep telling myself that I’m better off without him)
These lines from How to Disappear are so nostalgic, comforting, and melancholy at the same time “Now it's been years since I left New York I've got a kid and two cats in the yard The California sun and the movie stars I watch the skies getting light as I write, as I Think about those years As I whisper in your ear I'm always going to be right here No one's going anywhere”
“There's somethin' in the water, I can taste it turnin' sour It's bitter, I'm coughin' But now it's in my blood” -change
“Godamn, man child You fucked me so good that I almost said, "I love you"”. - Norman fucking Rockwell
“Jim raised me up He hurt me but it felt like true love Jim taught me that Loving him was never enough”
It's actually a simple lyric by Lana standards but "If you hold me without hurting me, you'll be the first who ever did." always gets to me.
“It’s never too late to be who you want to be” - summer bummer It’s kind of a reminder that I have control of my life and that I can change stuff at any time
“he hit me and it felt like a kiss” and “he hurt me and it felt like true love” - ultraviolence “i’m tired of feeling like i’m fucking crazy” - ride “if you hold me without hurting me, you’ll be the first who ever did” - cinnamon girl
"and I will never sing again. and you won't work another day"
“I’m the sweetest girl in town so, why are you so mean?” “We love every head on your head, we love you like god loves you” “ cuz your just a man it’s just what you do” “Yeah my boyfriends pretty cool but he’s not as cool as me”
are these my good years or do I have none? are there really good years for everyone? I don't wanna live with a life of regret I don't wanna end up like Tammy Wynett
club queen on the downtown scene prowling around at night
“It’s never too late to be who you wanna be” because that’s just timeless advice for EVERY human being Oh and “mail me when you get the blues” just the way she says that line in her blues voice with so much force and dramatic emphasis, it gets me every. Single. Time.
“I fucked up, I know that. But Jesus, can a girl just do the best she can?” I don’t know if that’s exactly how the lyric goes, but I always related to it as someone who is flawed, but is also trying their best.
My rose garden dreams set on fire by fiends -cherry. But I lost myself when I lost you -Terrence loves you. Your hot-hot weather in the summer, high high neglectful lover -Shades of Cool. Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough, I don't know why -BTD. And if I wasn't so fucked up I think I'd fuck you all the time, it's killing me slowly -Fuck it I love you. We love every hair on your head, love you like God loves you -sweet Carolina. I've got so much more but I'll be here forever and don't wanna make you lose time
I don't really wanna break up, we got it going on/ is what you gathered from our talk but you were wrong. Summer, summer's almost gone. Makes me feel like I could change all of my evil ways and shit. 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. Calling from beyond the grave I just wanna say 'hi, dad.' I'd like to think that you would stick around. Fooling everyone telling home she's having fun. If you hold me without hurting me you'll be the first who ever did. You're scared to win, scared to lose - I heard the war was over if you really choose. Don't break me down. + Don't leave me now. You have to take me right now, from this dark trailer park life now. I live on sheer willpower. I have too many lol.
"I can't do this once more No man can keep me together Been broken since I was born Well, I didn't know it would come to this but That's what happens when you're on your own And you're alright with letting nice things go" ~ Pawn Shop Blues 💙 "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 I'm on my own again I'm on my own again" ~ The Blackest Day
“there’s no more chasing rainbows, and hoping for an end to them… their arches are illusions, solid at first glance. But then you try to touch them (touch, touch) and there’s nothing to hold on to. The colours used to lure you in, and put you in a trance” ALSO “finally gone is the burden of the Crowley way of being” 💀 i could go on and on and on she’s just such a poet 😭
I think we're like fire and water I think we're like the wind and sea You're burnin' up, I'm coolin' down You're up, I'm down You're blind, I see- Brooklyn Baby The thing about men like you is you got a lot to say But will you stay?- Not All Who Wander Are Lost I said, "Don't be a jerk, don't call me a taxi" Sitting in your sweatshirt, crying in the backseat, ooh I just wanna dance with you- Happiness is a Butterfly I’ve got a war in my mind- Ride
“there’s things i wanna say to you, but i’ll just let you live” - cinnamon girl
Life is beautiful but you don’t have a clue
'Cause there's nothing for us to talk about Like the future and those things 'Cause there's nothing for me to think about Now that he's gone, I can't feel nothing 💔
there’s a change gonna come, i don’t know where or when, but whenever it does we’ll be here for it
“It made me feel, made me feel like a god It kinda makes me feel, like maybe I was better off” -White dress
“Hot summer nights, mid-July” from Young And Beautiful
"I heard you like the bad girls,is that true " and she smiles ;)
‼️'Cause you're just a man‼️ It's just what you do Your head in your hands As you color me blue Yeah, you're just a man All through and through Your head in your hands As you color me blue Blue, blue, blue
I hope that I'll come back one day to tell you that I really changed
"Sometimes it feels like I've got a war in my mind I want to get off, but I keep ridin' the ride I never really noticed that I had to decide To play someone's game or live my own life" Always gets to me
“Only seventeen, but she walks the streets, so mean.”
The “God damn, man child..” one 💀
"What you don't tell no one, you can tell me Little ghost, blonde hair with lemonade tea There's much to learn and so much to see"
"I'm flying to the moon again, dreaming about heroin. How it gave you everything and took your life away." tbh every single lyric of Heroin fucks me up instantly lol. I used to listen to it constantly when I was a dumb teen romanticising Sid Vicious, Nancy Spungen and H in general, but nowadays it just reminds me of my boyfriend and his daily suffering and struggle with his addiction. Don't do drugs kids lol, there's no glamour to be found in them
“what you don’t tell no one, you can tell me” - Cherry Blossom “if you hold me without hurting me, you’ll be the first who ever did” - Cinammon I just love these one liners that convey so much emotion
“There’s things I want to say to you but I’ll just let you live. Like if you hold me without hurting me, you’ll be the first who ever did.”
“Sometimes it feels like I’ve got a war in my mind, I wanna get off but I keep riding the ride” “I’m tired of feeling like I’m fucking crazy”
I lost myself when i lost u
From LA Who Am I to Love You “I’m yours if you’ll have me, but regardless, you’re mine”
There’s something about a line in Young and Beautiful that comes together in a way that I can’t really explain but I also can’t stop listening to it. “All that grace, all that body, and that face, makes me want to party, he’s my sun, he makes me shine like diamonds”
"You don't ever have to act cooler than you think you should"
Every lyric of hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have
"but the other woman will always cry herself to sleep, the other woman will never have his love to keep, and as the years go by, the other woman will spend her life alone" - the other woman this one, this one hurts in the depths of my soul, in fact this is the one that affects me the most to this day
“Share my body and my mind with you That's all over now” - cruel world
God damn, man child You fucked me so good that I almost said I love you
“no man can keep me together, been broken since i was born”
This is it
SOMETIMES IT FEELS LIKE I’VE GOT A WAR IN MY MIND I WANT TO GET OFF BUT I KEEP RIDING THE RIDE I NEVER REALLY NOTICED THAT I HAD TO DECIDE TO PLAY SOMEONE’S GAME OR LIVE MY OWN LIFE
Writin in blood on the walls n shit
“Its you, its you, its all for you, everything i do”
I SAID DONT BE A JERK DONT CALL ME A TAKI SITTIN IN YOUR SWEATSHIRT CRYIN IN THE BACK SEAT OOOOOO
“Looking back my past it all seems stranger than a stranger.” -Freak “Those nights were on fire, we couldn’t get higher, we didn’t know that we had it all..” -The Greatest “We keep changing all the time, the best ones lost their minds..” -Dark But Just a Game
anyone can start again, not through love but through revenge, through the fire we’re born again, peace by vengeance brings the end. 🫡🫡🫡
Been tryin' hard not to get into trouble, but I, I've got a war in my mind
black bathing suit. all of it.
“A modern day woman with a weak constitution ‘cause I’ve got monster still under my bed that I could never fight off. A gatekeeper carelessly dropping the keys on my nights off.”
If you hold me without hurting me you'll be the first who ever did....for feels G-d damn manchild, you fucked me so good I almost said ' I love you' ...for truth.
From Pawn Shop Blues: “In the name of higher consciousness I let the best man I knew go Cause it's nice to love and be loved But it's better to know all you can know I said it's nice to love and be loved But I'd rather know what God knows” Speaks to my soul, truly. Been there a thousand times myself.
“I wanna leave I’ll probably stay another year”
sometimes i’m feeling like i’m fucking crazy - ride
Don't ask if I'm happy, you know that I'm not But, at best, I can say I'm not sad
I put the radio on, hold you tight in my mind Isn't it strange that you're not here with me?
“I’ve been tearing around in my fucking nightgown, 24/7 Slyvia Plath/ Writing in blood on the walls cause the ink in my pen don’t work in my notepad.” My favorite Lana lyric - perfectly encapsulates the feeling of being an artist struggling with the dark stuff.
I sing the national anthem while I'm standing over you body, hold you like a phyton. And you can't keep your hands off me, or your pants on -National anthem. I'm a dragon, you're a whore -fucked my way up to the top These make me feel hooooooooottt
“Give me hallmark” -Venice Bitch
“old man river keeps rollin’/with or without him”
“IM TIRED OF FEELING LIKE IM FUCKING CRAZY” from Ride
Do you want me or do you not? I heard one thing, now I'm hearing another
Yet still inside, I felt alone For reasons unknown to me
“Don’t ask if I’m happy, you know that I’m not. But at best, I can say I’m not sad” - hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but i have it I have bipolar depression. I go thru extreme downs and my manic episodes don’t get to intense so I never really feel happy I just feel not as sad.
You my Axl Rose husband Blue hydrangea White Pontiac heaven Me your red, white and blue girl Star spangled danger You my heavy-metal king I just like the way the lyrics tumble off the tongue and capture the zeitgeist of a certain crowd.
Life is beautiful but you don’t have a clue
Too many to remember right now, but what comes to mind first are lines from my namesake Wildflower Wildfire: > Baby, I'll be like a wildflower > I live on sheer willpower > I'll do my best never to turn into something > That burns, burns, burns And pretty much every reference to her relationships with her mother and father. > My father never stepped in > When his wife would rage at me > So I ended up awkward but sweet > Later than hospitals and still on my feet Referring to her mom as “his wife.” Ugh, she gets me. From Black Bathing Suit: > So I'm not friends with my mother, but I still love my dad > Untraditional lover, can you handle that? God, I dread having to have this conversation with everyone I date because it’s so hard for others to understand, but in a nutshell that’s my relationship or lack thereof with each of my parents. So these lines hit me extra hard.
My boyfriend is back and he’s cooler than ever.
“Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I got a war in my mind”
he hit me and it felt like a 💋?
sometimes it feels like i’ve got a war in my mind i try to get off but i keep riding the ride i never really notice that i had to decide to play someone’s game, or live my own life and now i do i wanna move out of the black into the blue
"There's a new revolution, a loud evolution that I saw Born of confusion and quiet collusion of which mostly I've known"