Gods & Monsters

[Divisive Princess 3,488]

That song is so great

[Hellish 488]

Gods and Monsters is in my top 5 favorite Lana Del Rey songs.
 

I really like the idea behind the song, and it has some of my favorite lines from her.

Fame, Liquor, Love give it to me slowly

 

Me and God, we don't get along so now I sing

Cause life imitates art

[DominicMars 1,761]

I don't get the G&M hate. Some say the lyrics are trite or cliche, but compared to BE and BD, this song is light years ahead. I rather like the groupie/life imitates art line, I think it's perhaps a clever nod to the people in the press that slam her.  The god's dead line also reminds me of the '66 cover of Time magazine, and the screaming woman brings some cheap old horror film vibe. In my opinion, it's far from one of the worse tracks of Paradise.

[Just Cherry 3,717]

Compared to Cola and Yayo, from Paradise, G&M could've been a lot worse than it is.

[Trash Magic 26,676]

this part of Tropico will finish me.

 

When that kick drum comes in..... 

[Kittren 209]

One of my favorite <3 Love it. Hearing it live..... it was wonderful.

[Faded Heart 66]

It's definitely one of my favourites from Paradise 

[smoledman 199]

I love this song. It's so dark and moody.

[Trash Magic 26,676]

OMG this is creepy as fuck sometimes when I have my iPod docked on speakers (like right now) they play songs randomly without me opening the music app and as soon as I closed this thread Gods and Monsters started playing... I didn't even have that album open before

[lauradelxx 1,080]

I have been saying this for 75 years gods and monsters is one of my favorite songs ever I jist love it.

[cashcomesquick 5,379]

It was, indeed.

[Lauryn 1]

There is clearly a lot of controversy over "motel, squeeze, squeeze" or "motel, sprees, sprees" but if you listen closely enough you can clearly here the absence of a "q" sound which is why I'm going for "motel, sprees, sprees".

[Jazzmin 296]

Personally, my favorite part is the chorus:

 

No one's gonna take my soul away
I'm living like Jim Morrison
Headed towards a fucked up holiday
Motel speed sprees and I'm singing
Fuck yeah, give it to me
This is heaven, what I truly want
It's innocence lost
Innocence lost

 

 

But the whole song is very poetical and I wouldn't call it a cliche. Comparing it with WY (by the way, why with WY?), I'd undoubtly choose G&M and you know, I'm fond of WY.

[DominicMars 1,761]

I hear "Motel speed sprees, and I'm singin' "

[mymindtheweapon 7]

The first time I heard this song I was hypnotized....tried to cover it

 

[Summersault 822]

Maybe this is old news, but she appears to be saying "L.A. L.A." at the beginning, right before the first verse. I never noticed before now, but it really makes a lot of sense given the contents of the lyrics and how it was presented in Tropico. It's more obvious in the Mokadem remix that starts out more acapallaish. 

[Trinity 1,219]

Maybe this is old news, but she appears to be saying "L.A. L.A." at the beginning, right before the first verse. I never noticed before now, but it really makes a lot of sense given the contents of the lyrics and how it was presented in Tropico. It's more obvious in the Mokadem remix that starts out more acapallaish. 

Just listened to that remix and you are right! That is so cool.

[Sitar 22,171]

Maybe this is old news, but she appears to be saying "L.A. L.A." at the beginning, right before the first verse. I never noticed before now, but it really makes a lot of sense given the contents of the lyrics and how it was presented in Tropico. It's more obvious in the Mokadem remix that starts out more acapallaish. 

 

OMG I always kinda sang along to that as "ooh yeah". Really cool!

[Jake 202]

Maybe this is old news, but she appears to be saying "L.A. L.A." at the beginning, right before the first verse. I never noticed before now, but it really makes a lot of sense given the contents of the lyrics and how it was presented in Tropico. It's more obvious in the Mokadem remix that starts out more acapallaish. 

 

Oh weird that people didn't know this. Like I always heard L.A, L.A and thought the whole song was about L.A. Like...L.A was where she lost her innocence. It was the land of gods and monsters. Weird. 

[Lily 119]

I don't think it can possibly be "motel sprees sprees" because it simply makes NO sense. Lana has a lot of weird lyrics that work, but somehow these don't.  And I don't think she'd include them if they didn't work. It's also just a notch too seedy for Lana - motel sprees? Really Lana? Somehow I just don't think this is it, and I haven't seen any alternative yet that sounds or feels right. :/