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This album saved my life, it also was released on my birthday 🤍 I love you Lana!!
 

This album saved my life, it also was released on my birthday 🤍 I love you Lana!!
 

This album saved my life, it also was released on my birthday 🤍 I love you Lana!!
 

It's my favorite Lana song and I'll tell you why. It's just so... Touching to me. Although my life is completely different from Lana's, it's always been "sweet like cinamone" since I was born, I often feel I share the same soul with her. So, particularly about my feelings about "Gramma": the thing about "wanting to be whole world's girl", trying to pleasure everyone, feeling you are not good enough... This is just the way I am. And at the same time you hear "Honey, don't you know, you have everything" and you feel guilty about being unhappy because you should be fucking happy and grateful for everything. Well, maybe at least "somewhere out there is a good man waiting for me"...

This album 100% has some of her best songs to date (to me those are Chemtrails, White Dress, Yosemite and DBJAG). It's also by far her most cohesive album in my opinion. Chemtrails is like a snapshot of Lana's life on the NFR tour and early 2020. You can really hear those Joan Baez influences throughout it, and you can definitely tell a lot of it was done while in the Midwest (which, as a midwestern girl myself, I take pride in). I mentioned this in a status update, but the "it's beautiful how this deep normality settles down over me" lyric is what I would consider to be the mission statement for this album. It's just such a beautiful body of work that I'm so happy to see getting a little extra love today 

I know this is sort of unpopular but I really do think this album will be considered a classic in Lana's discography eventually 
 
It's so cohesive and has so many highlights on it. Idk I'm feeling a lot of love for Chemtrails right now 

I'm starting to get the vibe that winter is Chemtrails season. So many people have been loving it lately (or at least more than I saw when it first came out)

Another Let Me Love You Like a Goddess stan 

This album is so special…. I just wish the back half was a little stronger. Turn For Free into a solo song with the damn saxophone outro the original has and add a couple stronger songs in the second half of the album and you have a folk masterpiece. The soundscape of this one is so cohesive and intimate… I don’t think it’s as good as Honeymoon is (still her album with the best production she’s ever done, hands down) but it’s up there in terms of cohesion and flow.
 
It deserved more investment, a better standard cover (my signature would have been perfect!!!) and a deeper look at the themes and aesthetic she presented with that fascinating Interview Mag video essay she did!

I’m up at night with pain and on klonopin and Chemtrails is really hitting right now… it’s such a cozy intimate album. Sounds amazing on headphones. It might not be her strongest, lyrically, but there is an atmosphere that deserves recognition. Only Lana can do that. 

Tbh this never occurred to me until u said it - I couldn’t care less if she did or didn’t thank her fans 

title track. def one of her best songs ever  

i have an audio technica at-lp120x 

Woahh that is hella gorgeous!! Also I have that same mini easel (at least from what I can see lmao) and that's also where I intend to keep my future siggy rjghsjbg  

Same 

You can pre-order on her website here https://charlixcx.com/collections/music-1

Tbh I wouldn't mind more Lana x Miles
I think their voices work well together

not at all... he is a perfect complement and i would love to hear more music from them together.
this song wouldn't work (as well) without him. it would still sound incredible with Lana singing the verses too, but this is so much more powerful

Bartender, Happiness is a butterfly, and Violets for Roses are all sisters
they all talk about the same truck she bought in Bartender

This is slowly becoming a favorite track of mine so I wanted to a close reading of the lyrics. Hopefully, you enjoy and remember this is my interpretation of the song.


 
The first line of the song echoes her song “Change” where she begins the song with “There’s something in the wind, I can feel it blowin’ in”, whereas in “Change” the song is eerie and is anticipating change, be it good or bad, in “Violets for Roses” the song immediately indicates that the/a change has already occurred, and we see it in the next two lines. Masks off and running happy, references the freedom (from COVID also making this song hyper-contemporary), but perhaps this is not necessarily true in the real world, since COVID is still running wild, it again echoes the album’s tone of the freedom and joy found in family.


 
The second “stanza” or pre-chorus makes explicit another change that has occurred—a breakup. However, unlike most break-up songs, this is neither an angry declaration nor a sad one, rather a happy one. The freedom that comes with breaking-up with someone because you can reallocate the love back to yourself. Perhaps from a relationship so toxic that you forget who you are and what you like, highlighted by the first line, “ever since I fell out of love with you, I fell back in love with me.”


 
In the chorus, there is the infamous line, “you made me trade my violets for roses,” a line perhaps not popular with the community but one that is nonetheless metaphorically symbolic. “Roses” have been known in poetry to represent love since medieval prose poetry. Similarly, violets are no stranger to Lana Del Rey’s own poetry (see: Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass). While in the titular poem, Violet is a child of seven-years old, it could be argued that Violet is a personification of her own desires. The poem’s first stanza is a contemplation of everything she wants to do which is clashed with the presence of Violet in the second stanza:

and saw Violet
bent backwards over the grass
7 years old with dandelions grasped
tightly in her hands
arched like a bridge in a fallen handstand
grinning wildly like a madman
with the exuberance that only doing nothing can bring
waiting for the fireworks to begin

Her seeing Violet, carelessly enjoying her life, leads the poetess to let her own worries go:

and in that moment
i decided to do nothing about everything


forever.

Other than the clear intertextuality with her own oeuvre, Violets are also known to be compared to roses in the well-known poem:

Roses are red, violets are blue

Sugar is sweet, and so are you.

This poem, like Del Rey’s song, puts “violets” and “roses” in immediate contrast. The switching of placement in the chanteuse’s song, structurally emphasizes her identification with “violets” or her own desires, her own identity, with “roses” which represent love. Thus, “you made me trade my violets for roses,” is a confession, “you made me trade myself, my values, my joy for love.” A sentiment that harkens back to Del Rey’s third full-length album Honeymoon and the song “Terrance Loves You” where she confesses this pattern, “I lost myself, when I lost you”.


 
The rest of the chorus’ lyrics echo these sentiments. About a lover who made her sacrifice each aspect of her individuality (be it cars, toenail polish) in negotiation for love. The chorus ends with a declaration that any love that forces a woman to do this, is a doomed one.


 
The stanza that serves as the songs bridge repeats some of the lyrics from the first stanza of the song, but with this time a declaration of hope that this change is permanent. At first, the change being understood as this love for herself and the joy she finds in the everyday. While once again echoing perhaps the civil unrest that she first mentions in “Text Book” the opening track of Blue Banisters. Thus, with these final lines of this verse, the change she is mentioning is both the love she has for herself, but the change in society, macro and micro changes.

 

The final pre-chorus sees the singer re-embracing things that she used to love before she fell in love, “I fell back in love with the streets” and “I breakdance to the beat” and “God, does it sound sweet, like it’s playing just for me”. All sentiments reinforced by the final chorus and the outro which reaffirm the toxicity that love can have and that it is important to stay yourself and not to sacrifice what you love about yourself in order to be loved, in doing so you’ll find that that person forcing those sacrifices does not love you but loves controlling you. In the final lines of the outro, Lana is watching the girls again but seeing in them her own mask is now off, that toxic love, and it makes [her] so happy.

The way this song suddenly started hitting me outta nowhere
 
Once, twice, three times the guy I
Ever thought I would meet, so

Agreed about it being a very sad song. There's always comfort in denial.

These lyrics are very important in my opinion. It's actually an extremely sad song. She knows that she would never really lie down with her, as in side by side, but he will always lie to her and say he doesn't want her back. The trumpets at the song remind me of a farewell, like the end of a parade. Her best song <3 . It makes me very sad

Hear me out:
Black Bathing Suit is the 13 Beaches of Blue Banisters Nectar of the Gods is the Breaking Up Slowly of Blue Banisters Agree or disagree?

Why do some people in this thread think that it's impossible for a human being to change their mind? I think that after being off of social media entirely for a few days, Lana decided that she wanted to be on it without the aspects of her main account that she didn't like, so she went onto the Honeymoon account. It's really not that serious or deep.