My Favorite Lyric From Every Lana Del Rey Song (Part 2)
Honeymoon, Lust for Life, and Norman Fucking Rockwell!
You’re likely aware that most of LDR’s songs include several iconic lyrics. I’ve challenged myself to select just one— from every song, off of every album.
Yes, of course in order.
I have also challenged myself to refrain from selecting lyrics that are the same as the title of the track.
Fourth Album, “Honeymoon”
Released September 18, 2015
Honeymoon
“We both know—that it’s not fashionable to love me.”
Music To Watch Boys To
“I know what only the girls know-”
Terrence Loves You
“And I still get trashed honey-
when I hear your tunes.”God Knows I Tried
“On Monday, they destroyed me;
but by Friday- I'm revived.”High By the Beach
“Boy look at you, lookin' at me. I know you don't understand.”
Freak
“Looking back, my past—
it all seems stranger than a stranger.”Art Deco
“You're not mean, you just want to be seen;
want to be wild.”Burnt Norton (Interlude)
“What might have been is an abstraction-
remaining a perpetual possibility-
only in a world of speculation.”Religion
“When I'm down on my knees, you're how I pray.”
Salvatore
“Catch me if you can, working on my tan, Salvatore
Dying by the hand of a foreign man, happily
Calling out my name in the summer rain, ciao, amore
Salvatore can wait, now it's time to eat soft ice cream”The Blackest Day
“I got you where I want you-
you're deader than ever.
I'm falling for forever-”24
“If you lie down with dogs, then you'll get fleas.
Be careful of the company you keep-”Swan Song
“The world can change in a day if you go away-”
Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood
“If I seem edgy, I want you to know-
I never meant to take it out on you.”
Fifth Album, “Lust for Life”
Released July 21, 2017
Love
“I get ready, I get all dressed up-
to go nowhere in particular.
It doesn't matter if I'm not enough,
for the future or the things to come.”Lust for Life (feat. The Weeknd)
“I told you twice in our love letter-”
13 Beaches
“But you still can find me-
if you ask nicely-
underneath the pines.”Cherry
“My rose garden dreams, set on fire by fiends-
and all my black beaches… (are ruined).”White Mustang
“Summer's meant for loving and leaving.”
Summer Bummer (feat. A$AP Rocky & Playboi Carti)
“Her sophistication makes you wanna quit the bitch you dating.”
Groupie Love (feat. A$AP Rocky)
“It's so hard sometimes with a star-
when you have to share him with everybody.”In My Feelings
“Get that cigarette smoke out of my face-”
Coachella - Woodstock In My Mind
“What about all these children and all their children's children?
And why am I even wonderin' that today?
Maybe my contribution could be as small as hopin'-
that words could turn to birds, and birds would send my thoughts your way.”
God Bless America - And All the Beautiful Women In It
“Take me as I am, don't see me for what I'm not-”
When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing
“Cut a rug, lean into the fucking youth-
choreo, we just want the fucking truth.”Beautiful People Beautiful Problems (feat. Stevie Nicks)
“We get so tired and we complain-
‘bout how its hard to live.
It’s more than just a video game.”
Tomorrow Never Came (feat. Sean Ono Lennon)
“I waited for you, in the spot you said to wait-
in the city, on a park bench, in the middle of the pouring rain.”Heroin
“I hope that I come back one day…
to tell you that I really changed-”Change
“Maybe it's enough to just be where we are.”
Get Free
“I never really noticed that I had to decide-
to play someone's game, or live my own life.”
Sixth Album, “Norman Fucking Rockwell!”
Released August 30, 2019
Norman f*****g Rockwell
“'Cause you're just a man-
it's just what you do.
Your head in your hands,
as you color me blue.”Mariners Apartment Complex
“They mistook my kindness for weakness.
I fucked up, I know that, but Jesus-
can't a girl just do the best she can?”Venice Bitch
“And as the summer fades away, nothing gold can stay.
You write, I tour, we make it work. You're beautiful and I'm insane-”F**k it I love you
“Maybe the way that I'm living is killing me.
I like to light up the stage with a song-
do shit to keep me turned on-
but one day I woke up like, maybe I'll do it differently.”Doin’ Time
“Me and my girl, we got this relationship-
I love her so bad, but she treats me like shit.”Love song
“Oh, be my once in a lifetime-
lying on your chest, in my party dress,
I'm a fucking mess but I-”Cinnamon Girl
“All the pills that you take-
violet, blue, green, red to keep me at arm's length- don't work.”How to disappear
“Now it's been years since I left New York-
I've got a kid and two cats in the yard.”California
“If you come back to America, just hit me up.”
The Next Best American Record
“It's you, all the roads lead to you-
everything I want and do.”The greatest
“I want shit to feel just like it used to-
and baby I, was doing nothing the most of all.”Bartender
“All the ladies of the canyon-
wearin' white for their tea parties.
Playing games of levitation-
meditatin' in the garden.”Happiness is a butterfly
“I said, don't be a jerk, don't call me a taxi-
sittin’ in your sweatshirt, cryin’ in the backseat.”hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have - but I have it
“I've been tearing up town in my fucking white gown, like a goddamn near sociopath. Shaking my ass is the only thing that's got this black narcissist off my back.”
Love it. Lana rocks. No doubt. Just want to read more from you. :)