motelflowernation

Due to my crazed obsession with this song (okay, it's really all LDR's songs but the southern-y ones in particular always get to me) I decided to go through and make corrections to these lyrics that I felt were more accurate. Please, please, please if they need altering in anyway do not hesitate to do so. I do trust my ears and the millions of times I've scream-sang these words in my car. Hope they help. Intro: [Ray] Ray-ray-ray-raise me up talk-talk-talk... Ray-raise. It's like you said, it's all been done before I don't have to talk pretty for them no more [x2] I can talk what I want, how I wanna [x3] I don't have to talk taste for your momma. No, no, no. Say no. Ray-ray-ray-raise me up Ray-ray-ray-raise me up Ray-raise me up Ray-raise It’s a voodoo Mississippi south Sixty-nine million stars Birds are flying out of my mouth Spirits creeping in my yard Hold my head, it’s tilting back Somethin' dancing me around Putting crystals on our neck Lifting my feet off the ground The ground Ray-ray-ray-raise me up Ray-ray-ray-raise me up Ray-raise me up Ray-raise me up Me up Oh see, look what you've done now. Oh, me, that’s what I’m talking ‘bout Oh, me, look what you've done now. Oh, me, it’s what I’m talking ‘bout It’s what I’m talkin’ ‘bout It’s what I’m talking about Pick me up in a pickup truck Roll it down, you’ve got it going on Let me talk on your CB watt Let me play with your new shotgun Shotgun Ray-ray-ray-raise me up Ray-ray-ray-raise me up Ray-raise me up Ray-raise me up Ray-ray-ray-raise me up Ray-ray-ray-raise me up Ray-raise me up Ray-raise me up [shotgun] Ray-ray-ray-raise me up [shot...] I can talk what I want, how I wanna I can talk what I want, how I wanna I can talk what I want, how I wanna I don’t have to talk taste for your momma No

Just watched it. I have way too many thoughts to condense here at 4:30 in the morning. One thing: Did any one consider Lana's character to represent Carmen? (Eating soft ice cream, her character seeming to be Hispanic/have some sort of Hispanic background or heritage, "dance till you drop") Of course in Tropico she's a stripper and not a prostitute so maybe not. That was the just first thing I thought of when I saw where she ended up.

I have so many of these that it is just downright embarassing. I'll start with tonight's. My fiance tells me his car is breaking down and the first words out of my mouth are, "Omg, please get a white pontiac or a chevolet." So legit. Oh my god what is wrong with me I can't evennnn.

1949 is absolutely one of my most favorite LDR songs! It just feels so classic and so human. It makes me feel like I'm truly experiencing a journey of two people through the lense of someone else. I love very dreamy songs and 1949 is very dreamy. I definitely agree it has a basis in Lolita. Particularly the lines of "jailbreak" "we're gonna see it all before he says goodbye." There's also that obvious an older/younger binary in the relationship reminscent of the story. Motels, traveling, and the simple material pleasures of life, it's a very fun song with a melancholy feel (How, Lana, can you do that?) I think that Mermaid Hotel (another one of my all time favorites) has a very similar feel to it in regards to the relationship dynamic although its melody and beat is very different. It is also, in my opinion, told from a less "childlike" perspective while still having that same sore of dreaminess to it.