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 

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. 

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. 

He wrote the song originally but he didn't want to use it so he gave it to Courtney and she rewrote all the lyrics and changed some stuff.

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. 

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 see it like this:
 
The Garden of Eden = Paradise = L.A. (the way she expected it to be)
 
Lana said that The Garden of Eden turned into the Garden of Evil, which is the Land of Gods and Monsters, which is L.A.
Remember the line in "Radio" where she sings: "Now I'm in LA and it's Paradise"
I think the Garden of Eden represents the way Lana imagined it Hollywood/LA to be with Marilyn, Elvis, etc. all being part of it.
She looses her innocent and childish view of it as soon as she's confronted with the truth, she basically took a bite of the truth. Her eyes were opened.

daddy issues is my fkin jam idc what anyone says about that song

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.

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.

just one out of the hundred or so 
 
  

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.

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.

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.

I am always conflicted between being glad that Lana didn't "hit big" in the US and wishing that the general public gave her a real chance.

Lana used to scare me in a sense because I felt that her frequent references to great/misunderstood musicians/celebrities who died young (most of their deaths being linked to drugs/overdose/suicide/etc.,) were very allusive and foreshadowing. Sometimes the thought will come out of the blue and linger, but I try to send out positive vibrations.

I messaged Lana exactly one year ago, on this day, when I found out that she was initially considering leaving the music career. This was when I didn't understand the nature of leaks or how they happened, a few months before I discovered LB. The long to short is that I had asked her to release Hollywood's Dead and American Dream (Damn You) "before she left." Two days later, they leaked. It never said whether or not she read the message, I'd like to think she did. For a long time after, I was fairly certain Lana was behind a majority of the leaks because of that instance, which I guess may have been just pure coincidence, but I still entertain the thought from time to time.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.