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Look at everyone here, talking about their drug experiences. And here I am..at 4 in the morning, drinking my tea. Holla.

Look at everyone here, talking about their drug experiences. And here I am..at 4 in the morning, drinking my tea. Holla.

Look at everyone here, talking about their drug experiences. And here I am..at 4 in the morning, drinking my tea. Holla.

What about Greenwich Village? She lived there at one point too.
 

Look at everyone here, talking about their drug experiences. And here I am..at 4 in the morning, drinking my tea. Holla.

So in the credits in Ride, it lists "Diamond Dave" as first assistant director, and I was wondering if that's the same Diamond Dave that Lana's talking about in Mermaid Motel.

Look at everyone here, talking about their drug experiences. And here I am..at 4 in the morning, drinking my tea. Holla.

Look at everyone here, talking about their drug experiences. And here I am..at 4 in the morning, drinking my tea. Holla.

Look at everyone here, talking about their drug experiences. And here I am..at 4 in the morning, drinking my tea. Holla.

Look at everyone here, talking about their drug experiences. And here I am..at 4 in the morning, drinking my tea. Holla.

Look at everyone here, talking about their drug experiences. And here I am..at 4 in the morning, drinking my tea. Holla.

crying @ lana possibly being a stage five clinger/stalker
 
celebrities, they're just like us 

What about Greenwich Village? She lived there at one point too.
 

Everyday I wish that my friends like Lana, but I don't want that her turn into a world star with lots of fans, etc....I wana to keep Lana as my treasure

I've sang along to Lucky Ones before.
 

I label her music under "dope sick gangster" 
 
 
 
...what do you mean you've never heard of it....

Hollywood Sadcore. 

Hawaiian glam metal or surf noir

All of this makes sense.
 
On the flip side, it could be about Barrie because he plays for her at his shows and I can't imagine she's writing the song without relationship permanence in mind--i.e., growing old with someone. She's currently with Barrie and it sure doesn't seem like she's just passing the time until she gets to heaven and reunites with K. This is pretty much the same reason I doubt that Bel Air is about K. It seems like she's moved on, although she continues to honor lost love. I can see why Blue Jeans or Dark Paradise would be about K because she wasn't necessarily in a relationship at the time. Who knows, maybe if her and Barrie broke up, she'd continue to sing about how that dead man was her one true love (evidently similar to the subject matter she returned to post Mike, etc, breakups).

Okay here's why we're on a forum for Lana Del Rey doing Lanalysis and not Taylorswiftalysis. Most of this stuff is up in the air, as much as many of us accept it as fact. A majority of this thread is discussion of intuition based on stuff that Lana has handed us. The invasive stuff like Facebook posts is unfortunate, but it would be negligent and unrealistic as fans to ignore stuff once it's there in front of your face. Beyond that, I'm wondering what you think is too personal to discuss? Gogo dancing? Addiction? Sleeping around? Famous boyfriends? Most of that stuff is derived from her lyrics.
 
Gogo dancing:
- I'm your gogo dancer.
- Watch me dance for other guys.
- Disco, gogo dancer so rare.
- Motel singer or the silver pole.
- All the men are watching, the crowd is cheering.
 
Drug addiction:
- Get Drunk
- A GQ interview she knew would be published
 
Sleeping around:
- Making Out
- I know your wife, she wouldn't mind
 
Famous boyfriends:
- I said hey, Jimmy Gnecco, I like the way your name echo (a name drop if I've ever heard one)
 
Yeah, this list includes leaked songs, but note I didn't cite any examples from her very personal home demos.
 
I understand where this thread makes people uncomfortable but to that point I'd recommend avoiding it. Many people do. I can only tell you that the intention is to only use information that's on the world wide web in this thread, despite a wealth of other sources, including but not limited to interaction with some of the subjects on the part of our more zealous members.
 
I hope you find an appreciation for Lanalysis but if you don't I hope it doesn't continue to bother you too much. Hope I helped illuminate something.

so many awesome theories and brilliant connections, TPD!  
i like the idea of some song(s) possibly being about jeff buckley...or maybe combining jeff with K, for example? perhaps some of the songs about her dead lover are about him? i had never thought of this  
 
something random and unrelated, or not, is that "gods and monsters" is, coincidentally, the name of the first band that jeff buckley had (with gary lucas) when he first moved from CA to NYC  
 
 
edit: i also think you've discovered that arthur's role in lizzy's life may have been bigger than all of us "lanalysts" had thought!

Pac fucked Lana? Pac didn't fuck Lana. He fucked Lana? Pac fucked Lana? He fucked Lana?

It's probably been brought up, but whoever 'K' was, he was a musician?
receipts:
 
For K Part 2: "I like your music and you like the way I walk"
Westbound: "You like to write about all of your problems, put them in songs because you think it would solve them"
 
now on to my lanalysis 
 
"Why did you go? I guess I know, maybe my question is, why must it come to this?"
She is just questioning why this had to happen, although she knows what led to it.. RE: "a drive-by sunday night" "Is this what you wished to commit a crime, to be serving time?" 
 
I feel like the whole of Westbound is about her usual "Honouring love lost", she knows he is gone and isn't coming back but she can't give him up. (Gangsta boy: "I don't care if you're going to prison, I wouldn't said I love love you if I didn't.") 
 
This also links to Dark Paradise, in Westbound she says "you and your melody" and proceeds to hum it, the same melody that is haunting her in Dark Paradise. The melody is a part of him that still possesses her.
 
"They're tryna teach me about new ways of living, they're tryna teach me 'bout way of forgiving"
Lizzi attending one of her famous self help groups 
 
"you're such a bad bad boy, I love you anyway" - The dedication to him is still strong as ever, this lizzy chick is way too clingy 
 
"You would not approve, but you are on the move"
Lana has previously said that she has been in " a whole lot of trouble" and that more than religious, she is very spiritual. I think that being "on the move" is his transition to the afterlife, AKA "the other side" something she talks about in Bel Air, Born To Die and Dark Paradise.
 
I think this is probably the most interesting, I did some researching about the significance of being westbound and this definitely explains the songs, supposed, title.
 
"Some Native Americans of the Southeast say that the souls of the dead dwell either in the heavens or in the west.
The west has often been associated with the afterlife of the spirits. Polynesian islanders locate their ancestral island in the west and believe that spirits of the dead can return there. The Celtic people pictured an otherworld that was sometimes underground or under the sea and sometimes an island in the west."

So I've been thinking that Kill Kill may not be about an actual man, but alcohol. I feel like it's Lana talking to Chuck about her addiction and her leaving.
 
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?
 
Lana shortly before she leaves for boarding school, talking to Chuck
 
I'm in love with a dying man
I'm in love with a dying man
I'm lin 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
 
The dying man is the alcohol, she's tried to stop drinking but she can't.
 
Tell me about Ray and his girl
Do I know, Ray is going to meet you?
Love you, I do
Stay here, I won't
As stars fade from your eyes
 
Maybe Ray was Chuck's boyfriend? Haven't we seen something about Lana and Chuck talking about Ray? Maybe it's some kind of inside joke, maybe Chuck had a crush on him or something.
 
One, two, make it fun
Don't trust anyone
 
Advice for Chuck or Lana herself
 
 
 
What do you think of this theory? I just think the lyrics are so incredibly vague that I don't think the dying man actually is a man.

The one where Lana looks great get with it  
 
 
I want to kill her.