What an earnestly warm yet bittersweet song...
But yesterday I heard God say you were born to be the one...to hold the hand of the man who flies too close to the sun.
The thing that I get the most out of listening to Lana is being privy to her moments of self-reflection like this. It's all good and well to write a song simply about the end of a relationship, but she always takes it a step beyond and presents a very complex self-portrait that sees her songs about 'love' address so much more than that. It's not merely the fact that she's in these relationships that's interesting. It's how she interprets her positionality within these relationships as part of a lifelong journey towards self-understanding and acceptance. She accomplishes this through subtle but impactful lyricism like the line above.
I'm excited to hear this in the context of the entire record!
