theresanameforitinjapanese

I'm dancing all night to the dirty blues
Like a dream, you glide on the water
And like a star I shine from the shore
Like the sun can't get any hotter
You're the one I want, I won't look anymore

And it's a little grim
But I sing a hymn only for you
I seal it with a kiss
And it goes like this
"Baby, love me too"
 
Papi is a workaholic, I'm his little party 

I'm so me, Corinthians 

what the title says, post all of your favorite lyrics from any of Lana's unreleased songs or demos with alt lyrics
here are a few of mine:
 
"The Earth shattered, the sky opened / That rain was fire, but we were wooden"
- Fine China
 
"I don't really wanna fly / I just want this tour to be over / I know that I dreamed about it all my life / Then the dream got closer"
- Pink Champagne
 
"Call me late if you wanna get high / Late at night, laying in Versailles / You and I get to know one another"
- Your Girl
 
"You were hopped up, getting drunk on sangria / Drunk like you always wanted"
- Madly
 
"Gazing at horizons but never quite reaching them / And still I tell you every time / Oh, I'll pick you up"
- California (Demo)

We may be psychopaths but at least we aren’t Reddit stans 

throwback because this made me giggle for like ten minutes and my sister thinks im unhinged

This thread serves as a reminder to us all that the IQ of the general population is so abysmally low compared to those of us on lanaboards (not incl. xenoblade)

hanging around 
 
and anywhere you go, i’ll follow, even if it’s only in spirit baby 

The only one that matters. My Best Days stans rise up 
 
Tired of Singing The Blues is also one thats always peaked my interest

MY BEST DAYS!!

Resistance, St. Tropez, and Delicious

1949, we have no idea who produced it! pretty random how we got a studio version of a laptop demo in 2016 and we hardly know anything about it

So basically lana has some songs who are basically “phantom” songs where we have literally nothing else but the song. like they are fully produced and stuff but we don’t have demos, instrumentals, acapellas or anything. and we only have a little of info like the album or date but that’s it.
 
examples: Television Heaven, Put The Radio On, Jealous Girl, What’s A Girl To Do, St. Tropez and more.
 
 
MY FAVOURITE IS TELEVISION HEAVEN

This was an amazing read. Now "Bird World" title makes a lot of sense. Do we know his height because Father John Misty recently said that she told him the guy in NFR is actually 5'8''  and previously said he knows who the song is about but can't say it (Jonathan Wilson produced several FJM albums). The reworked version of The Next Best American Record has the lyrics "Topanga's hot tonight". I wonder if it also points to him as he has a production studio in Topanga right now.

i agree it's about her moving to california, but there is also a theme of leaving a man to pursue your career which is in line with what seemingly happened between her and mike.

I think it was about her in a nightclub and settling down in California because the first line ("down on the west coast they've got a saying, if you're not drinking then you're not playing...") was from a stranger who said that to Lana in the club

Aaron Greene and Lana mentioned in these article parts are from same The Lake Placid News and same date January 28, 2000. They were associated with the Blue Bombers team.

I don't really know and I have no concrete evidence, but I still think the song NFR is about Jonathan Wilson, and maybe other songs of the album, and also some poems of Violet.
 
It is a long post, sorry about that.
 
From L.A. mag :
https://www.lamag.com/culturefiles/how-jonathan-wilson-accidentally-rebooted-the-laurel-canyon-music-scene/
"he is first and foremost known for revitalizing the Laurel Canyon music scene, the neighborhood that was home to Joni Mitchell"
 
I think he is the resident Laurel Canyon who she is talking about, he has a lot of influence there where he lived and set up a studio where he collaborated with many artists as a producer. I could see him throwing parties and organize some jam sessions with friends often.
Maybe Lana felt a little bit forsaken.
 
In NFR :
"You talk to the walls when the party gets bored of you"
 
In the Bird World demo version of NFR :
"Heard you're back in the bar again
Hangin' out with your stupid friends
Playing with your guitar again
But I don't fucking care"
 
It reminds me of the white mustang music video where the guy, wearing long hair, was producing music or in a party instead of taking care of her, so she left. 
 
About that, it was said that the video were supposed to be made in first intention for Best American Record. He could be the musician she was talking about, writing his own record with her (she collaborated in his album Rare Birds) :
"He was seventies in spirit, nineties in his frame of mind"
The Laurel Canyon scene was at its peak in the 70s, with CSNY for example, who he collaborated with. 
And suddenly in NFR, Lana namedrops the Eagles, CSNY and Joni Mitchell.
 
"But you were so obsessed with writing
The next best American record
That there was nothing left by the time we got to bed
Baby, that's a shame
You were so obsessed with writing
The next best American record
You did it all for fame"
I know this could stand for Barrie, but I never saw him seeking fame.
 
I think their albums "Rare Birds" and NFR (what about Bird World ?) talk about each other. About the name "Rare Birds", Jonathan said that it stands for two lovers like two unique individuals who met and fell in love.
There are several songs in Rare Brids that make me feel are about Lana. 
 
Mulholland queen :
"You are perched up on the ridge of town"
"Oh baby, you're so blue and wise"
"With the babies breath in a crown-like shape"
"Through your laugh, I can breathe in a childlike air
With you dear, I'm in awe of a creature rare
With your tender smile and your pretty little dress
With your jazz in your heart, you don't need all the rest"
"From the curves of Bel Air to Topanga Creek
As we hear what the masters have sang us before
All the Billie and the Chet and the Pharaoh of yore"
"Under those big eucalyptus'
Where your grasses are green
Where you sway under the heavens
And your dominion is every...
Star"
This last sentence is almost repeated in the poem "La who I am to love you" :
"With towering eucalyptus trees that sway in my dominion"
Furthermore, for those who don't know, Lana loves Billie Holiday and Chet Baker.
 
Loving you :
"To wake up with you
Thats all I wanna do
Billie she was skipping all night
We didn’t even notice her"
"A match thats made beyond
The barricades of space and of time"
"Oh complex you
I know just what i will do
I’ll simply write another verse of you
A melody to keep you inside"
"Mostly talent
Most mystic
The rest it is magic"
Nota Bene : Lana is credited on this song (although we don't hear her).
Also, this song has a "summertime madness" edit version :
 
There's a Light :
"There is a garden
In the expanse of your mind
The harvest will speak volumes in due time"
"You are America and you are everyone
You are the miracle of love
With all your children at your feet
You are the ocean from above
So dear so deep"
 
Sunset Blvd :
"There's a cherry on top tonight
For men who look like jesus tonight
If you play your cards right
You can be the the son of god tonight
You were thin you were undersized for the spring
You entered your name just as "tight blue jeans"
In my phone I guess you do this kind of thing"
I def see her doing this
 
Living with myself (ft. Lana) :
"The lies, I start to believe them"
Lana in Bare feet on linoleum :
"and the lies, they
started to believe them"
 
Hard to get over :
"The way you make love
Makes me see my funeral
On my wedding day
The way you’re daddy’s girl
I’ve watched the reel
I still don’t believe it"
 
Otherwise, I think he is the John in How to disappear :
"John met me down on the boulevard
Cried on his shoulder 'cause life is hard"
 
For the timeline we know they dated in 2016, and maybe in 2017 (we have pics of Lana attending a Pink Floyd show on june 2017 in which Jonathan Wilson toured as a guitarist). 
 
Maybe all this is too far fetched, but I really thinks he had a big impact on her, and on her art.
This is my interpretation that I had in mind since a long time, and of course I could be totally wrong.

Makes sense! “Did you know a singer can still be
Lookin' like a side piece at thirty-three?
God's a charlatan, don't look back, babe
Puts the shower on while he calls me
Slips out the back door to talk to me
I'm invisible, look how you hold me
I'm invisible, I'm invisible
I'm a ghost now, look how you hold me now.
It's not about havin' someone to love me anymore (oh, okay)
No, this is the experience of bein' an American whore”
 
I mean she dated him when she was 33. She sings about him seeing her in secret, how he really does his best to make sure that no one knows he’s seeing her. The fact that he made her feel like she was an American Whore. I do thing there’s more layers to “American Whore” but he’s definitely a part of it. Also the lines about God being a charlatan, it really ties back  to her critiquing his obsession with god, I mean she literally called him a Jesus freak…
 
Ugh I hate that man so much

Oh wow thanks for clarifying more. I have never noticed the similarities between Yayo and Guns & Roses, even though I love them both so much, especislly G&R which is so overhated. 
 
Imo, UV is the follow-up to AKA. I have always found it quite Lizzy, like more raw Lizzy, as she talks about her past experiences like in Ultraviolence track.
 

She also changed the lyrics to "jersey shores" in one live performance, which is even more of a direct Methamphetamines reference.
 
 

WAIT the “don’t be afraid of our love” makes SO much sense now! He was afraid bc he was hiding the situation that rat 

i believe old money is about her past, possibly the lizzy grant era or even her youth, she re-used some elements of methamphetamines, a lizzy grant song, in old money, she talks about her family, and some of the lyrics are lizzy-esque, especially with mentions of blue hydrangea and new york city, she once said jersey nights instead of summer nights during a live performance of it, and we all know that new jersey was relevant to her during that time, that's where her trailer park was!
 
 
i believe guns and roses could be about past experiences as well, or could just be inspired by some of her older songs/older lyrical style, it has similarities to yayo
 
 

Lana and Sean were publicly together from September 2019 to March 2020. We know between these times, his wife now would know their relationship. On March 2020, Sean announced that they broke up. Now, I think he also told his wife that they broke up. However, he was still seeing Lana secretly. Neither his wife or Lana were aware of this situation. It makes sense it happened after Lana-Sean initial break up, because Lana mentioned they were in couples therapy together, meaning they were trying fix the situation in their relationship.
 
I think either Sean and his wife got secret mariage together before the public January 2022 one or Lana was meant to say engaged. Him and Lana seeing each other till January 2022 is also a possibility but it would be crazy. I believe it’s engagement because she first mentioned this incidence through A&W tiktok video saying engaged.
 
Now looking back at Tulsa Jesus Freak lyrics, it has a whole new meaning. I think for her too. She didn’t know why they are meeting secretly, why he’s afraid of their love. Maybe he told he doesn’t want to be in front of cameras etc. That’s why she sings it before the show, before A&W
 
“You should come back to our place, baby
Don't be afraid of our love
On the second floor, darling
In the second flat, hurry up“