The Siren

how do we even discuss an album released so long ago yet so important

The fact that Lucky Ones is one of the most hated songs by the fandom is really, really homophobic.

After being a user here for almost two years, I realized that I haven't seen a thread for BTD! I'd love to have a place to discuss and praise the iconic album, and I hope you'll find a need for writing here too. ♥
 

 

 
♥ Some other BTD related threads ♥
BTD turns 7 years old
Photoshoot location
Your fav song off BTD? Poll!
What if Lana had stopped making music after BTD?
Billboard chart immortality

Lana Del Rey Arcadia



 

i feel like for the most part, the post-release threads are discussion threads, especially for projects that have been out for a while, obviously sirens and aka were released / recorded way before lanaboards was created, but we needed a thread that could be used as discussion.
 
it would be cool to have post-release / discussion threads for at least the may jailer eps and no kung fu, because i find her lizzy grant era to be so captivating and just i love it so much, so of course i'd love to talk about it  i don't know if there's much room for discussion when it comes to the phenomena of lizzy grant, since every song on that mixtape is a song we already had, except for a slightly different mix of rehab, still interesting, and a cool thing to know about, nonetheless. 

Well I wish we had threads about her unreleased projects (Young Like Me, From the End, Sirens, The Phenomena of Lizzy Grant, No Kung Fu) for all info related to them. Like how we have post-release threads for her released stuff. For example we can do ''Sirens: General Discussion Thread'' lol

Young Like Me and From the End are demo EPs that Lana made in 2005, you can look at Lana Wiki and see they have very different tracklists. The EPs existence were discovered on copyright sites.
 
Sirens is a demo album made by Lana in 2006, it includes songs from Young Like Me and From the End, and songs which don't appear on either of them.

Definitely. For now, I've split the extra 3 YLM tracks onto a separate EP called Rock Me Stable, since that's listed on the copyright page as another title for Young Like Me 

It's pretty confusing but both track lists are definitely real. Maybe this CD was a sampler of sorts, or an early track listing before she added more songs?

He has been friend of Rob for almost 50 years(https://twitter.com/philmadeira/status/1196885714543218691?s=21)
“quasi niece”: https://twitter.com/philmadeira/status/461843485734084608?s=21

Absolutely nuts!!! 
 
Two questions:
a) What does this mean for the existing YLM tracklist, which has 7 tracks (and matches the copyright record for YLM)? 
b) Which of our graphic designers want to make matching fruit CD labels for Sirens and From the End

in that order, too?
 
i had Young Like Me tracklist in my library as 
 
Blizzard You, Mister Junky Pride Move There's Nothing To Be Sorry About More Mountains In Wendy

Don't know where else to post this, but this is the Young Like Me cd artwork featuring the official tracklist.
 
 

Lights, camera, accion
If he likes me, takes me home
(x3)

Come on, you know you like little girls
Come on, you know you like little girls
You can be my daddy
You can be my daddy

Lights, camera, accion
He didn't know he'd have this much fun
(x3)

Come on, you know you like little girls
Come on, you know you like little girls
You can be my daddy
You can be my daddy

You're my little sparkle jump-rope queen
You're my little sparkle
(x2)

Lights, camera, accion
You know I can't make it on my own

Put me in a movie
(Come on, you know you like little girls)
Put me in a movie
(Come on, you know you like)
You can be my daddy
You can be my daddy
Put me in a movie
You can be my daddy

Do I make you feel like Christmastime?
Put me in a party dress one time
Love me till i see the sun shine
Say you'll never leave me (x2)

Who has a face like smarty does?
Who has a voice like smarty does?
Who has a choice like smarty does?
Nobody, nobody, nobody
(x2)

Say I make you feel like Christmastime (x2)
Tell me that I feel like Christmastime
Put me in a party dress li-line

Baby, if you loved me you would call me your bunny
Tell me that I'm just a baby, honey
Beat me and tell me that no one will love me
Better than you do, better than you do

Dance me all around the room
Dance me around the room
Keep out the stars, turn out the lights
This little world is yours tonight
Dance me all around the room
Say you'll never leave me

Who has a face like smarty does?
Who has a voice like smarty does?
Who has a choice like smarty does?
Nobody, nobody, nobody
(x2)

Say I make you feel like
Like you did, like you did when you were thirteen
Say i make you feel like
When you were the dirty heavy metal king
Say I make you feel all right, all right, all right

Kissing me till I see the sun shine (x2)

Keep out the stars, turn out the lights
This little world is yours tonight, is yours tonight
This little world is yours tonight
 
Say you'll never leave me (x2)
 
Who has a face like smarty does?
Who has a voice like smarty does?
Who has a choice like smarty does?
Nobody, nobody, nobody
(x2)

Nobody, nobody, nobody
(x3)

Gramma said she'll leave the lights on for me
Gramma said the flags are waving for me
Gramma said that somewhere out there
There's a good man, waiting for me

A-M-E-R-I-C-A, all i wanna do is play
See the city every day, pretty party nation

Tell me that you think I'm good
Happy that I make you glad
'Cause I don't wanna think I'm bad, Gramma
I don't wanna think I'm bad
 
Gramma said she'll leave the lights on for me
Gramma said the flags are waving for me
Gramma said that somewhere out there
There's a good man, waiting for me
Gramma said she'll leave the lights on for me
"Don't you know, you don't need a thing?"
Gramma said that somewhere out there
There's a good man, waiting for me

T-R-O-U-B-L-E, trouble's what feels good to me
Crazy ass since I was three, now I'm out to getcha

But I been better lately, Mom
And I'm in love with everyone
And I don't wanna think I'm wrong
Just for feeling pretty
 
Gramma said she'll leave the lights on for me
Gramma said the flags are waving for me
Gramma said that somewhere out there
There's a good man, waiting for me
(x2)

I wanna be the whole world's girl, Gramma
I wanna be the whole world's girl
I wanna be the whole world's girl, Gramma
Tell me do you think that's wrong?

"Don't cry, bunny, crazy girl
Don't you know you are the world?
Every time you feel unsure
Try, remember what you are."
 
Gramma said she'll leave the lights on for me
Gramma said the flags are waving for me
Gramma said that somewhere out there
There's a good man, waiting for me
Gramma said she'll leave the lights on for me
"Honey, don't you know, you have everything?"
Gramma said that somewhere out there
There's a good man, waiting for me
 
(Gramma said she'll leave the lights on for me
Gramma said the flags are waving for me
Gramma said that somewhere out there
There's a good man, waiting for me)
(x2)

Maybe we could go to Coney Island
Maybe I could sing the national anthem
Buy a white sweater for the last white day of the summer
Buy my purple wig for my mermaid video
Walk back to where we live in my motel
On Neptune Avenue

You call me lavender, you call me sunshine
You say take it off, take it off
You call me lavender, you call me sunshine
You say take it off, take it off

Maybe we could go to Sway Tokyo
Or see Van Halen at the reunion show
Heavy metal hour on T.V.
Diamond Dave and Ray Lee
And you salute me, Miss America
Because I am, I am

You call me lavender, you call me sunshine
You say take it off, take it off
You call me lavender, you call me sunshine
You say take it off, take it off

Maybe we could go to Coney Island
Maybe I could sing you to sleep
God bless the universe, god bless the ocean
God bless you and god bless me (x2)

You call me lavender, you call me sunshine
You say take it off, take it off
You call me lavender, you call me sunshine
You say take it off, take it off

Palm trees in black and white
Last thing I saw before I died
Palm trees in black and white
Was the last thing I saw before I died
Right line, right man
Right mixture of cocaine and heroin

Do you wanna jump, jump, jump? (x3)
Do you, do you wanna?

Hair thinning in the wind
Cadillac convertible wind
Hot shot at two A.M.
You got the grin of a very old man

Do you wanna jump, jump, jump? (x3)
Do you, do you wanna?

Palm trees in black and white
You are a junkie on your window, smiling wide
Palm trees in black and white
Lean forward and you close your eyes
Last fight, fuck them
Last words before you went and left again

Do you wanna jump, jump, jump? (x3)
Do you, do you wanna?

Just do what you love, just do what you can
Just do what you love, just do what you can
Just do what you love, do it better than
Just do what you love, do it better than

Do you wanna?
Do you wanna?
Jump

All right, you got me
I don't play a good guitar
But what do want from me?
It's just a stupid bar
I didn't promise anything, no

You think I'm pretty and you like way I talk
I like your music and you like the way I walk
So I think we're gonna get along

I like the way you wear your sweater off your shoulder
The way your hair comes down and makes you look older
How you get so handsome, my boy?

Pretty baby
(x2)

The way your face is shaped, I wonder if you know
The way you stand up and your silhouette glows
I'm electrified, I'll be up all night now

Use that voice, sing that song
And tell me to come on, to come on, come on
You won't hear no
You won't hear no

Pretty baby
(x2)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC6g_wHjGss
 
I like the snake on your tattoo
I like the ivy and the ink blue
Yayo
Yeah, you
Yayo
 
You have to take me right now
From this dark trailer park life now
Yayo
How now
Yayo
 
Put me onto your black motorcycle
50s baby doll dress for my "I do"
It'll only take two hours to Nevada
I wear your sparkle, you call me your mama
 
Let me put on a show for you, daddy
Let me put on a show
Let me put on a show for you, tiger
Let me put on a show
 
I need you like a baby when I hold you
Like a druggy, like I told you
Yayo
Yeah, you
Yayo
 
Put me onto your black motorcycle
50s baby doll dress for my "I do"
It'll only take two hours to Nevada
I wear your sparkle, you call me your mama
 
Let me put on a show for you, daddy
Let me put on a show
Let me put on a show for you, tiger
Let me put on a show
 
Hello, heaven, you are a tunnel lined
With yellow lights on a dark night
Yayo
Yeah, you
Yayo
 
Put me onto your black motorcycle
50s baby doll dress for my "I do"
It'll only take two hours to Nevada
I wear your sparkle, you call me your mama
 
Let me put on a show for you, daddy
Let me put on a show
Let me put on a show for you, tiger
Let me put on a show

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 letting nice things go

Well, I pawned the earrings that you gave me
Gold and metal flowers dangling
And I almost cried as I sold them, oh

And I don't mind living on bread and oranges, no no
But I gotta get to and from where i come
And it's gonna take money to go
Oh, no...

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
Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no

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 letting nice things go

Bound up the stairs
I'm in the shower
Do you know I am going to leave you?
Do you know I am going to leave you?

I'm in love with a dying man
I'm in love with a dying man
I'm in love lying in the sand
I'm in love with a dying man
I'm in love with a dying man
I have done everything I can

Tell me about Ray and his girl
Do you know Ray is going to meet you?
Love you, I do
Stay here, I won't
The stars fade from your eyes

I'm in love with a dying man
I'm in love with a dying man
I'm in love lying in the sand
I'm in love with a dying man
I'm in love with a dying man
I have done everything I can

One, two, make it fun
Don't trust anyone
(x2)

I'm in love with a dying man
I'm in love with a dying man
I have done everything I can
(x2)
 
(One, two, make it fun
Don't trust anyone)

Demo lyrics in blue.


Give me coffee, king size cup
Come on kitty cat, fill her up
What's your name little buttercup?
That's for me to know and you to make up

Love casinos, Indian reservations
But baby if you love me, take me to the gas station
Gas station

Look at you smoking in them neon lights
Under the thunder yo, you like so nice
Made me wonder how you spend them nights
Me, I spend them looking for men I like
Like you (x4)

Love casinos, Indian reservations
But baby if you love me, take me to the gas station
Take me to the gas station

Give me coffee, Utah love
I'm the kinda girl you dream of
I'm trying to tell you what i dream of
And that's gas stations
The Slurpee machines and organs playing
Preferably, with smoking inside
If you can swing it (swing it, swing it, swing it)
Maybe with a post office attached to it
With chickens running in and out of it
Saw one like that in New Mexico on Route 66
And I'd be real pleased if we could find one just like it again
Again (x5)
Again (x5)

Love casinos, Indian reservations
But baby if you love me, take me to the gas station
Gas station

It's like you said, it's all been done before
I don't have to talk pretty for them no more
(x2)

I can talk what I want, how I wanna (x3)
I don't have to talk taste for you, Mama
No, no

Ray-ray-ray-raise me up (x2)
Ray-raise me up (x2)

It's the voodoo, Mississippi south
69 million stars
Birds are flying out of my mouth
Spirits creeping in my yard

Hold my head, it's tilting back
Something dancing me around
Putting crystals on my neck
Lifting my feet off the ground

Ray-ray-ray-raise me up (x2)
Ray-raise me up (x2)
(x2)

Oh, see, what you've done now
Oh, me, that's what i'm talking about
Oh, me, what you've done
Oh, me, it's what i'm talking 'bout
It's what I'm talking 'bout, it's what I'm talking about

Pick me up in a pickup truck
Roll down, you've got it going on
Let me talk on your CV1
Let me play with your new shotgun

Ray-ray-ray-raise me up (x2)
Ray-raise me up (x2)
(x2)
 
(Ray-ray-ray-raise me up
I can talk what I want how I wanna (x3)
I don't have to talk taste for you, Mama)

I look for you in magazines
I look for you in magazines
I look for you in magazines
I'm taking off my wedding ring

I gave you everything
I gave you everything

Give me the brite lites
Give me the brite lites
Give me the brite lites, yeah
(x2)

I'm going back to Arbor Dean
I'm going back to Arbor Dean
I'm going back to Arbor Dean
Where when I was a beauty queen

I wasn't anything
It wasn't anything

Give me the brite lites
Give me the brite lites
Give me the brite lites, yeah
(x2)

I'm waving on the silver screen
I'm waving on the silver screen
I'm waving on the trampoline
I'm waving on the silver screen

The film is fading, look at me, yeah (x3)
The film is fading, look at me, look at me

Give me the brite lites
Give me the brite lites
Give me the brite lites, yeah
(x2)

Give me the brite lites
Give me the brite lites
Give me the brite lites, yeah
(x2)

Give me the brite lites
Give me the brite lites