The Siren

the fact she mentioned she's at a facility intrigues me

Sylvia - 
I knew what you meant when you talked about swimming in the ocean and leaving your patent leather black shoes pointed towards it while you swam
It tickled you to leave them there
It was the thought of a young child or of a lost fairy
It reminded me of who I am
That's why I'm now at this facility by the ocean
& why I go barefoot and why I go calmly
Why I leave my shoes up by the stairway
I do it for you, and I do it for me
Because having learned from others and from you,
I learned there was a missing piece to finding existential calmness and domestic bliss to lead to peace
 
You see, you cant fall in love with a man like Ted or a musician who sings about being free
A woodworker doesn't a good man make if he wants his work to be on TV
You have to separate the wheat from the chaff
You have to be discerning
It takes diligence, consequence, and other things to keep that sea from churning
& to keep yourself from longing to let those painted waves take you under
It isn't just the water black that makes the body plunder from high sea cliffs
I know, my dear, I wish that I had been here or there
I wish that you were here now if you're not now because who knows how these things work?
 
Sylvia, Marilyn, Violet, Diana
All of my kind women who came before me, blonde
I dyed my hair black for you
I turned my back on that black pond
I swear I wont stop 'til I'm dead
& here I am at 34, and what for?
 
To bring my pair of baby patent leather shoes to turn them the other way
Towards the sea cliff stairs, not at the ocean
To bring them back up safe to the facility instead
& I think of you as I walk to the 280 wooden steps dynamited into the cliffs 100 years before
I let myself into room 2 and got undressed
 
I was sunburnt
Contemplative and sore
& as I fell asleep by Gabapentin
I lay my head on the pillow
& stretched my hand out on the cool white linen and sang you a lemon melody
I kept the shoes on the sill by the window seat in case you got restless and wanted to leave
& I hugged you with my baby's breath and sang your spirit to bed
The way I would have if you were my child or if I had children
My Queen Anne's lace heart weightless on your little head
 
 
 

Her voice is so calming and I love to hear it after everything that has happened

And if you asked my* sister, no?
 
Anyway, love this! My heart is melting. Thank you so much to everyone putting these together.

I'm glad she can confirm she hasn't been drunk in 14 years. I, myself, being currently drunk, cannot relate

MUSIC TO WATCH BOYS TO PLEASE OMFGGGG, I NEED THAT TITLE PLS LANA

This thread is going to be 40 pages long before any real news even comes out

I hope she takes the time that she needs to develop a new sound and to write smart lyrics, to find the right people to collab and record with and I also hope that she knows the music industry well enough by now to figure out which effect her music is going to have on people.
 
I'm also not a huge fan of the idea that her new album is released right after or in the middle of a tour again. It just messes up everything and everybody is torn between the old and the new era.
 
As much as I strive for more Lana songs, it is more important to me that they are different, nicely-composed and well-produced.
In my opinion it is almost impossible to find new themes when you're still singing BTD & Paradise songs every night and also have to deal with the UV sound. Since she hasn't performed since October I'm pretty sure that she has enough time to find these new themes. However, it'd be nice if she sat down in the studio after she has experienced the Endless Summer Tour and listens to her new songs again. Maybe she'll also be able to add some influences to the album. 
 
Also the last album was released only 6 months ago, we shouldn't be so thirsty yes we should 

Rich with cheap taste

Happy Birthday to one of the most iconic albums ever made... nobody else could have done it quite like that.
 
Her best album alongside AKA - it’s so hard to choose. It’s even better when you modify the tracklist to include the deluxe songs in the mix & end the album with The Other Woman, like Lana intended. Here is the best tracklist & you’re welcome.
 
Cruel World
Ultraviolence
Shades of Cool 
Brooklyn Baby
Florida Kilos
West Coast
Sad Girl
Pretty When You Cry
Money Power Glory
Fucked My Way Up to the Top 
Guns & Roses
Flipside
Black Beauty
Is This Happiness?
Old Money
The Other Woman

Happy 7 YEARS ULTRAVIOLENCE 
 
I may or may not periodically spam this thread because this era will never be dead to me
 

Well, release day for UV was yesterday in Germany and the box was sold out @my fav Saturn store - Lana got her own shelf again like 'BTD' had once - CRAZY!!! Had to go to Media Markt and there were only 2 available. Got one of those!
 
'Cruel World' is my absolute fav. It's Lana's coolest song besides 'Lucky Ones' & 'Live Or Die'.
 
This album is really amazing especially the guitars and drums are stunningly beautiful. Unfortunately, there aren't any lyrics, just smaller extracts. Sometimes it's hard to understand what Lana sings due to high notes.

Yaasss, dem bird sounds

Yep the catchy chorus is such an earworm. Old Money is just great <3

One of the most magical moment on the record is in Is This Happiness in the second verse, were she goes from high to low while she sing "you're fucking crazy as the day is long"...

wrote a blog about my first listen
 
http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/blog/120/entry-502-crazy-first-listen-emotions/
 
my favorite tracks (except for the known songs) so far are Sad Girl, Pretty When You Cry, OLD MONEY and Florida Kilos I guess...

Those "I'll run to you, I'll run run run" on Old Money are so haunting 

just listened to the album straight through again, this time including flipside and ITH.
 
it made me break down in tears. this album is so beautiful and personal. i can hardly relate to any of the lyrics, but the way that lana sings about her own life is so tragic, especially on ITH and flipside. oh my.

For some reason Flipside and Is This Happiness sound like the most personal songs to me. Funyn that they are the ones she only releases as exclusive tracks ...

I actually really love Guns and Roses too. the chorus is a bit weak but the first verse is amazing.
 
Flipside and Is This Happiness are really good as well, annoyed I won't have a physical copy of them though 

It's on the Japanese iTunes release

Is This Happiness and Flipside should've been on the delux instead of FK and GAR...

*17 (Radio Mix of West Coast )

Flipside is a great song. the guitars remind me of "The Yeah Yeah Yeahs" album "Fever To Tell"
Listening to the "ful UV" with 16 tracks feels more complete than listening to the 11, 14 or 15 track versions. Now it feels complete, like a completely told story, as it was with 15track Born To Die and 9track Paradise.