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This one is so visual to me, like a scene in a horror movie or mind thriller.
I visualise her sitting in a chair in large, cream-coloured, empty room with one glass wall she's facing that we're looking through while she's reading the poem out of her book. Then behind her are these faceless silhouettes, almost like robots but more human-like (slenderman-esque?), that stand behind her reciting the lines heard in the background. Then at the point of the poem where she says "& now, I’m left wondering, where do I go from here?" she looks up towards the glass but her eyes glossed over as if she's what she's looking towards is just one-way, mirrored glass & the figures begin to walk towards her, until at the end when the poem stops they are surrounding her - some playing with her hair, smoothing her dress, adjusting her ankles - and she closes her eyes, leans her head back, and begins to recite back the words they had been saying to her - "people love my stories."
 
(I feel sort of ridiculous posting this strange visualisation, but it's just what I see!) x

This was an interesting poem, but I don't feel as much as poetry as it is storytelling. I think the writing is beautiful, it completly made me feel as her... I completly drifted away in thought like her, only to come back down to earth to keep on doing the simple things of the day. That is the most typical things we as humans do, or at least what I tend to do. When there are so many things holding you back from the past and you just don't wanna be where you are you think about all the possible things you could do to get away, but without being able ignore the things that haunt your mind.
 
I feel like the poetry book is still Lana Del Rey landscaped, you can see all the touches of failed fame, death and love but through a more realistic side, no as much fantasy added.
 
In this one I believe she is yet again referencing the way she was treated in the press in 2012  with the whole SNL perfomance and her authenticity
"Would standing in front of Mount Rushmore feel like the Great
American homecoming I never had? Would the magnitude of the scale of the sculpture take the place of the warm embrace I've never known."  (Is she saying she is deserving of a monument such as Mount Rushmore in her honor? I also think Grammy's are not enough Lana haha)   Photoshoots for magazines or Paparazzi chasing her (once again)? Tiny beads of sweat dot my forehead Could be mistaken for dew drops if this were photo season. ... Leave me in peace I cry  
The thought about retiring yet again (Do you guys ever wonder how many times Lana will make another statement about retiring from music? She's been going about that since 2012 before Paradise, came back to it after the Paradise outtakes leaked, she wrote Swan Song, and has since the Honeymoon era made claims about touring just enough, and releasing just enough albums, and not promoting that much to be left alone little by little... (I think she's just waiting to start a family so she can retire)
And now that I've gone scorched earth I'm left wondering where to go from here.   What is surprising is that I believe she's touching on suicide(Stay on your path, don't fall away like the others) for the first time since her "I wish I was dead already" thing haha, ever since Get Free, Change and Heroin she proclaimed to be wanting to be a better different version of herself. In NFR (album) we see her claiming to be stronger than ever (see Mariner's Apartment Complex) and she concludes in Hope Is A Dangerous Thing For A Woman Like Me To Have to not being happy and yet not being sad either, just as in this poem "Bored - but not unhappy" And she is once more relating herself to Sylvia Plath   "24/7 Sylvia Plath" - "Stay on your path Sylvia Plath"   I'm glad she's doing better now, I wished she didn't identify herself as a tragic poet tho    (Also, what do you guys think are the lies she's referencing to here   "But alas this is a real life - and it's been a real fight just to Keep my mind from committing treason. Why you ask? Because she told the towns people I was crazy and the lies they Started to believe them"   And when Lana says it's being hard to not commit treason isn't killing someone (the she that spread the lies) or herself, committing treason would have been to accept the lies that were spread about her, and giving up on music and disappearing from the spotlight. She chose to keep releasing songs, to prove she was a real artist and that her creations were art. And yet after all that, there's nothing left to do, where to go from here? I think it's really the theme of the poem

When you first panic cus Land of 1000 Fires sounds so much lower quality, then that production kicks in and you realize we're in her cauldron. I smiled that whole poem. Lo-fi spell

“LA, who am I to need you when I have needed so much, asked for so much, but what I have been given, I'm not sure yet
I may never know that either until I'm dead“
 
Been thinking about this part. So many people come to LA expecting magic to happen. The thing is you make your own luck in LA. So many people move to LA thinking the city will solve all their personal problems that they bring with them. Lana says that she won’t know her true legacy until she is dead. No artist ever finds out their true legacy because your legacy isn’t written when your alive. So this is very powerful.

The NY Post is a right-wing Donald Trump loving rag. Back in the day it was a good paper until Rupert Murdoch bought it.

I get the feeling from this )speculation: take with a grain of salt) that she lacks the maternal love in her life , that through being nurtured and cared for, you take with you everywhere you go even after they pass. Lana says she's never had that, and I believe her. That makes it harder to feel at home no matter which mansion you buy. Unless you heal your emotions around that wound you take that feeling of unwelcome everywhere

Also, one more thing. This picture she posted on her instagram with the caption "LA Who am I to Love You" perfectly captures this poem. I know her book will include some of her original photography, but I wonder if this picture may be included as well to supplement this poem. I wonder if this picture was taken around the time she wrote the poem.
Also, when she first posted a picture from this day in 2018 with Ben, the caption was "LA-->SAN FRAN" 
 
"I'm lonely, LA, can I come home now?
I left my city for San Francisco
And I'm writing from the Golden Gate Bridge
But it's not going as I planned
I took a freeride off a billionaire('s jet) and brought my typewriter and promised myself that I would stay but
It's just not going the way that I thought"
 
'LA who am I to love u'

 
'LA-->SAN FRAN'

I think it's 'sax' - she says "I sold my life rights for a big cheque" which (if autobiographical) would be selling out her music for the image of Lana del Rey.
 
Terrance Loves You (and other parts of Honeymoon like Art Deco) has saxophone paired with the line "But I've still got jazz when I've got the blues", maybe signifying that she takes refuge in her love of music (particularly jazz which is so prominent in New York, of which sax is a staple). So by selling her namesake, she now 'can't sleep at night' because she knows fame will end eventually and she can't be wholly authentic anymore.
 
Also, sax then comes in and plays in the next poem she reads. 
 
Obviously as I just said I'm not sure if we can take anything as actually her life and we can just wait for the book sooo n e wayyy

A sexy, dark track with guitar and heavy beats
A sexy, dark track with guitar and heavy beats
A sexy, dark track with guitar and heavy beats
A sexy, dark track with guitar and heavy beats
A sexy, dark track with guitar and heavy beats
Let's pray for that :pray2: :pray: :pray2: :pray: :pray2:

idek what mastering is

fine china but with NFR touch ?      ​ 

oh lord above we ask thee, bless us with an album that has no country songs! Amen

I feel like Tulsa Jesus Freak isn't a song title but omg I would LIVE if it actually is and it's some kind of "wtf was I thinking im a bad bitch after all" anthem    in my imagination it opens up w the lines
 
"Remember how the men would bow just to hear me speak
But now I'm somehow at the mercy of this Tulsa Jesus Freak   "
 
and then it goes on to drag Sean and their relationship omg I would LIVE

this may be the most out-of-left-field thing i've ever read on here

Stay on topic please. These may come in handy for some of you:

 

Born to Die - Post Release Discussion Thread

Lust for Life - Post-Release Discussion Thread

Norman Fucking Rockwell - Post-Release Discussion Thread

I heard the title track in my dream last night. It had a really long heavy-drums intro, and the opening line was "Mary had a little lamb." It was about a little girl named Mary who kept herself isolated at the country club, and was very strict about who she would let in or not. The song got sassier and more aggressive as it went on and Mary grew up, and at the end of the song Mary looked up at the sky and saw the chemtrails above her and realized the error of her ways. LOL

the way she never makes her insta captions clear just to fuck with us. 

I used to dislike this line, but now I love it cause I view it as just super sarcastic - like oh yea, why on earth would I wait for someone nice and caring and perfect for me when I could have a fcking loser like you   hahaha like you say its such a quiet diss I love it!!

I feel we're getting something very very very soon. Like... I feel it...

I always thought it's meant in an endearing way. I mean of course it's an insult but I thought it meant even though he objectively isn't good, she loves all his faults and she can't help but have those feelings for him even though she knows it's not good for her. Subjectively, she prefers him despite his flaws.

Cover idea that could be bad idk: She's at a party at the country club and she's the only one wearing a mask. Everybody's dancing and laughing while she's looking up in the sky at the ''chemtrails''. Everybody is living the rich LA lifestyle, not worried about the chemtrails or the virus while she's the sad, woke one, LOL 

I want a modern video and slow dreamy trappy song about coked-up old money rich bitches sipping magnum champagne at a country club gossiping about conspiracy theories with it being stylised so glamorously that it starts to ebb and flow indistinctively into satire and irony and then back...

I think that Lana's most admirable quality as an artist is how deeply committed she is to her life's work. While BTD and Norman aren't even comparable, you still see a woman that has evolved from the superficial (not saying this as a bad thing, or to look down on BTD at all) to the spirit of the great American poets and songwriters. I am not worried about Chemtrails at all, lyrically speaking. I know that she'll blow it out of the park again, especially considering that the title evokes the strong imagery of her poetry collection. I am more concerned that I don't know what type of soundscape that this album will shape out to be; that she either hasn't covered yet, or that is in her range. If this turns out to be her Folk record, i'll be absolutely ecstatic. Norman was the turning point towards LDR being taken more seriously as an artist and poet.