YouCanBeTheBoss

Not sure if this thread is still going on, but I've been reading it for a while and it's really interesting, haha. My personal favorite Lana mystery is definitely her possible relationship with Mr. Campbell, and I've spent a while speculating and developing this theory that I'd like to share.
 
I'm going to categorize and try to explain and connect the lyrics from some songs. This is actually my first post here so I'm a bit nervous, so here goes nothing!
 
Note: Please remember that we have no reason to believe any of this actually happened. For all we know, Lana could be taking events that happened to others and incorporating them into her own fictional storyline.
 


 
So, let me know what you think, and if you any more ideas of songs that I may have missed or any other theories. Thanks for reading! 

Oh, thank you! It's no problem, it's fun debating the meaning of the songs with someone else. Yeah, I'm starting to think that Mr. C is more important in Lana's music than people think (it's usually all about K and Jimmy most of the time).
 
I like to think that their supposed relationship was more of a fantasy on Lana's part, or that Lana just took themes and such to craft a fictional storyline carried through her music (if that's true then she sure did a good job, given the fact that we're sitting here trying to analyze it all, haha). I mean, we did get confirmation that Lana and Jimmy never dated and she was just infatuated with him, maybe everything she's told us is a lie. But yeah, I definitely don't want to ruin his life or career or anything serious like that.
 
 
I'm not sure, I pretty much went by the lyrics you mentioned from OTTR. If anything, he was definitely older than her based on that, but by how much is up for speculation. I'm pretty sure My Momma is about him and she says "you're under forty and you have a job", so that could mean he's somewhere in his 30s (otherwise she would have said he's under thirty or something like that). The rest of the lyrics seem very K-ish, "But you're making money and you're working hard so" and the long hair.
 
 
Yeah, it was a bad joke. The real explanation for the overlap in themes is probably just that a lot of the themes Lana uses in her lyrics aren't necessarily limited to one person, especially the non-specific ones like dancing, which I think she might have used in some Jimmy songs as well.
 
1949 and On Our Way go hand-in-hand imo. They both describe a grand road trip romance, they both mention stopping at K-Mart to buy lip gloss (very specific). They're also both clearly set in the summer ("July to July", "Put on your sundress, summer day"), based on that, the lyric "Day and night on our last vacation" could possibly mean summer vacation. "Before he says goodbye" and "last vacation" possibly means that she knew their relationship wouldn't last. Aside from that, the rest of the lyrics are also very childish ("lollipops", "hop scotch"). The Pontiac is still really frustrating though, since the song seems to fit perfectly otherwise, lol.
 
EMGHW is one of the songs that I think was inspired by various relationships rather than just one. As I mentioned before, it takes most of its lyrics from four different songs, Hawaiian Tropic, 1949, Daytona Meth, and Heartshaped Chevrolet. Hawaiian Tropic and Daytona Meth are K songs, in my opinion, while 1949 and Heartshaped Chevrolet could possibly be Mr. C. The Chevrolet definitely = Mr. C most of the time (someone found out earlier in the thread that he owns a Chevy, though I'm not sure how, haha), but Daytona Meth mentions a Chevrolet and it's definitely not a Mr. C song, so the car-relationship associations may not always be reliable.
 
 
BTD may not really be all that symbolic (this is actually my BTD = Mr. C theory so cover your eyes if you want, lol). Your theory about the first verse being about wanting to see K in heaven does have a lot of weight to it, I actually remember believing it for a long time before I started re-listening to a bunch of songs looking for Mr. C clues, but it doesn't fit with the rest of the song that much, at least in my opinion. The way the rest of the lyrics are phrased makes it seem like she's talking to someone at that moment. For example, how would K be able to "keep making [her] laugh" and "walk on the wild side" if he's gone (if the gates line is about K, then he'd be dead at the time the song is set)? As for the gates, maybe she's not necessarily talking about heaven? I mean, in Bel Air, she outright calls it "heaven's door", which is pretty irrefutable evidence for it being a K song. In Prom Song (Gone Wrong), however, she also mentions gates in the lyric "At the gates, stop and say, 'Be my valentine.'" In BTD, she never really specifies what type of gates they are (I know it seems like a huge stretch, but it's all I have, haha).
 
The rest of the song also reminds me a bit of her boarding school days. "Can you make it feel like home, if I tell you you’re mine" makes it clear that she's away from home, and it can't be New York or anywhere else because we know she went there on her own, whereas she was sent to Kent School outside of her control. "Come on take a walk on the wild side" doesn't really seem like something she'd say to K imo. By what we know, he's much more "wild" than she is. "You like your girls insane" made me think of the fact that she was sent away for an alcohol addiction (in Prom Song (Gone Wrong), the lyric "I'm not crazy" shows up repeatedly throughout the song), it also ties with "You taught me that it was good to be crazy" from Lucky Ones (though it may not be a definite Mr. C song, the two songs seem to go well together). Now for "Choose your last words, this is the last time, 'cause you and I, we were born to die", I don't think she's talking about dying in the literal sense. I'm not sure if it's been posted here before, but I really like the theory that the song is about a relationship where they both knew it wouldn't work out, but they decided to try it anyway. The relationship was born, to die. It really fits with Mr. C in that respect imo, not to mention the fact that "Lost but now I am found" is almost identical to "You found me when I had lost my way" from On Our Way. Also, considering the whole trilogy concept, the order of the songs on the album may be important. If it's chronological (which would be the most logical), then maybe BTD = Mr. Campbell, Blue Jeans = K, and Video Games = Jimmy/Michael/whoever.
 
All in all, I'm still not completely sure about this one. I can definitely see the arguments about it being about K, and then there's the weird factors like Bradley in the music video like you mentioned (I'mma take a wild guess and say that Mr. C doesn't look anything like that). I do wonder about her and Jimmy, I remember a theory that Midnight Dancer Girlfriend is about him, since we seem to know that the whatever it was that happened between them coincided with Lana's go-go dancing days. Maybe something did happen between them, but Jimmy had a girlfriend and Lana was the other woman, so they had to keep it quiet? I don't even know, but whatever the case, I think Lana could have just hired Bradley based on the fact that he resembled a past love of hers alone, the decision may have been a more stylistic choice based on the music video, rather than the actual contents of the song.
 
 
Blue Jeans is definitely a K song, that much is for sure. And I hadn't noticed all of that about Video Games, haha. I think I remember her mentioning something about the verses being about one relationship and the chorus being how she wished another relationship was (how helpful, lol). I think the verses are definitely about Michael, they tie very well both lyrically and melodically with Afraid, which is another Michael song imo. The chorus is definitely more vague, but I think given the fact that it's based on a fantasy, Jimmy fits the bill. We know from various songs that their relationship, if they even had one, wasn't all that glamorous. From Yayo, the lyrics "Hello, heaven, you are tunnel lined with yellow lights, on a dark night" give us the image Lana/Lizzy and Jimmy riding on a motorcycle through a dark tunnel with lights along the walls, i.e. her idea of heaven, at least at the time. This fits with "Heaven is a place on Earth with you". If part of Video Games is in fact about Jimmy, then that could explain Yayo being the prequel.
 
And that's very weird what Lana said about the song, lol. Maybe she meant that it was the first song written for BTD? It was written with Justin Parker, who also co-wrote the unreleased songs On Our Way and Velvet Crowbar around 2010, so maybe it was written then? I somehow doubt it being one of the first songs she ever wrote, it doesn't sound similar lyrically to the stuff from Sirens at all.
 
 
I thought about that lyric after I posted before. In there though, she's asking him to save her, rather than saying that he actually did save her. I'm not sure if there's a song about K where she explicitly states that he did save her from something, unlike On Our Way for Mr. C (I know I keep bringing this song up, but the two lyrics just go together so well imo).
 
Hmm, you make a good point about the syntax. I'm not sure if she uses the same wording in multiple songs, so that could be pretty important. Party dress seems more like a standard theme imo (as in, more about Lana herself than any of her exes). If it is important though, then Smarty would probably be about Jimmy. Hundred Dollar Bill is a definite Jimmy song (it outright says his name throughout the lyrics), and according to the lyrics "Jimmy pulls up in his blue Chevy Nova, I have been dying for him to come over, I’m in my party dress", she put the party dress on precisely because she knew she was seeing Jimmy. And also from Smarty, "Say I make you feel like when you were the dirty heavy metal king" seems to equal "I said 'Hey, Jimmy Gnecco. Hey, I like your heavy metal. Do you like mine?'" from Jimmy Gnecco, so "heavy metal" could possibly be a Jimmy theme (or at least in songs written around that era, since I'm pretty sure AFFA isn't about him).
 
Also, I used to think American was about Mr. C (not joking about associating any song I can find, lol). "You were like so sick, everybody said it. You were way ahead of the trend, get get it." made me think of what she's said about him in other songs. According to Lana's POV, his defining trait seems to be that he was cool and well-liked ("everyone from town says that you're so cool", "I think you’re so cool, babe", "You're everybody's hero", "You’re dynamite", etc. not to mention the fact that she's even gone on record saying he was cool in interviews), but then again, Lana described K in a very similar way ("You were fresh to death and sick as cancer") so it's anyone's guess really.
 
 
I see what you mean about divinity and K, but I'm still not completely sold on Lucky Ones. I'm not sure if Lana ever said anything about the subject in an interview (if it's the case, then I'm just making a fool out of myself at this point tbh), but maybe she thinks that she and K weren't meant to meet and be together? As I said before, if we go by the lyrics we know from 100% K songs, all that she's really sure of is that God took him away for a reason, she never says that they met for that same reason. Think about it, every other major relationship we know of ended due to the actions of one of the two. Mr. Campbell possibly left Lana for another woman, Lana ended up leaving the famous addict/Jimmy, and she and Michael seem to have both agreed that it wasn't working out. In K's case, he was taken right out of her life and it was out of either of their control, we know Lana equates this as God taking him away. If he took K away, while Lana and her other love interests were able to decide for themselves whether to be together or not, then maybe Lana thinks that she and K weren't meant to be at all? I know this is probably all more speculation and interpretation than actual analysis, but I've been thinking about it for a while and I really wanted to share it, lol.
 
 
Yeah, Ray (and Bill) are definitely the most ambiguous of Lana's ex-lovers (we at least know quite a bit about K thanks to Lana's lyrics). I thought Lana being "Ray's girl" would have some precedence, based on Raise Me Up. It does seem to be the easy way of interpreting the lyrics and that's not always reliable.
 
I immediately thought Lana was referring to herself in that lyric from TV in Black & White (again, the easy way of thinking). The little information we have on Ray makes it very difficult to develop a full theory on him/his involvement in Lana's life and music, so I think it's better to just leave it tbh. It doesn't seem to help us tie things together any more than we already have. Besides, it'll probably just end up being one of the many unsolvable Lana mysteries we all know by now.
 
Coney Island is a definite K theme, the way you mentioned she's so specific about it in TV in Black & White is pretty serious evidence (I think that might be why the ocean seems to be related to K as well, "we'd wade into the water 'til the waves turned blue"). The chorus of Mermaid Motel is very weird, however, I'd be inclined to consider it a K song based on the mentions of Coney Island and the ocean alone. I can't remember the validation for linking "you call me lavender" with the other person (Was it Reeve Carney? I can't remember), maybe the chorus is about him and the verses are about K? idk, the K references are still too important to ignore, definitely.
 
 
Haha, that's for sure. Lana's has a much more ~interesting~ life than any of us it seems.
 
Alright, you've convinced me, I definitely see Summertime Sadness as a K song. The "miss you forever" line, like you mentioned, can be most easily associated with K since he's the only one who's gone forever. Perhaps the "Later's better than never" could refer to her hoping she'll see him in heaven? (A running theme throughout the entire BTD/Paradise era.) I've started to think of Body Electric as a Mr. C song (I know, I know, lol). The "I'm on fire" from the song sounds practically identical sonically to the same line from Baby Blue Love, which is very much a Mr. C song "I'm singing in the choir, but I'm lookin' at you, I'll be outside pick me up after school", "Cuttin' school, listenin' to techno music"). It also definitely ties to Born To Die ("We get down every Friday night", "I feel so alone on a Friday night"), so they're probably about the same person imo, if that helps anything.
 
 
Young & Beautiful definitely has a lot of K qualities. I do think though that it's important that she mentions summer nights in the first verse, since nights seem to be most associated with Mr. C. Baby Blue Love is the most direct on the matter with "Laughing at nothin', be alone together; Where your night ends, ours starts." Young and Beautiful is still a hard song to place, at this point I'm beginning to think it was inspired by multiple people.
 
That's actually a really good idea! It would definitely make keeping track of things easier, though I'm not sure how we could grade the rest of the Mr. C songs I mentioned in my grand theory lol. Prom Song is definitely a 1st degree like you said, Boarding School as well, maybe Take Me To Paris? We'd probably only be able to get to 2nd degree songs before giving up, lol. If anything, I'll try to list the Mr. C songs I have so far (and ones that I'm beginning to suspect) and maybe that'll lead us somewhere? Here we go (I leave a question mark where I'm not sure):
 
1949 (?)
Are You Ready (?)
Baby Blue Love
Boarding School
Body Electric (?)
Born To Die (?)
Daddy Issues
Damn You
Driving In Cars With Boys
Dynamite
Every Man Gets His Wish
Heartshaped Chevrolet
JFK
Lolita
Lucky Ones (?)
Oh Say Can You See
On Our Way
Next To Me (?)
Prom Song (Gone Wrong)
Puppy Love
Push Me Down
Put Me In A Movie
Scarface (?)
Starry Eyed
Take Me To Paris
Television Heaven
This Is What Makes Us Girls
Without You
You Can Be The Boss (?)

It would be weird for her to call most of her exes "kid", honestly. We know that K, Jimmy, Michael, and Mr. Campbell (i.e. her most important lovers) are all very much older than her. I think it's safe to say it's just Lana's strange brand of symbolism we've all come to know, lol. In Afraid, which we know is a definite Michael song, she goes even further and says "We were just teenagers when we fell in love." when they didn't even know each other until 2008. By calling Campbell a "kid" and saying they both grew up, maybe she's saying she saw him more as a peer than as an actual teacher, and at one point, they realized that they couldn't be together any more, as in, they matured? That's all I can really make sense of it, lol. The lyric "Remember how we used to escape for the summer" is definitely tied to Mr. Campbell, though. Apart from the obvious allusion to running away, it's also connected to the summer road trip(s) mentioned in On Our Way, 1949, EMGHW, and DICWB.
 
"Dark side of the American dream" is very puzzling. It ties with the pre-chorus of Damn You, but I do see what you're saying about it. We know the demo was recorded in 2008, maybe at that time she thought the dark side was "life on the run"? The lyrics of Damn You seem to define the American dream as being true freedom, for example, freedom from boarding school. Aside from that. there's also the "We were two kids just tryin' to get out", which makes me think of "We're never gonna get out of here alive" from Take Me To Paris. I don't think "getting out" was ever a theme in other K songs, but correct me if I'm wrong (I haven't analyzed or even really listened to her full catalogue yet, haha). And yeah, what makes things really difficult is that dancing is associated most with both K and Mr. Campbell ("Dancing 'til the dawn" from Prom Song (Gone Wrong) and "We'll dance until we die" from Take Me To Paris). Plot twist: K and Mr. Campbell are the same person. 
 
 
I do agree that themes of divinity are related to K, but in most K songs, it's mainly limited to literal references to heaven and God, not so much the whole "we were meant to meet and be together", which shows up in On Our Way, Damn You, and Lucky Ones. Also, I wouldn't be so quick to associate "Is it by mistake or design?" with divinity, it's just a common phrase used to mean whether something was intended to be a certain way or not. And also because lately I've been starting to think that BTD might be a Mr. Campbell song... don't kill me please. 
 
 
I actually hadn't noticed that about Lucky Ones (shows how could I am at analyzing, lol). I pretty much associated it with Kent being a teenage wasteland, but it's really interesting that the only other song to directly mention "our friends" is Video Games. I'll have to keep that in mind. I still go by the theory that each song in the Born To Die trilogy is about a different relationship, though. I can't exactly imagine either K or Mr. Campbell being the boyfriend who plays video games. 
 
 
The infantile themes could really be about anyone, we know Lana gots a taste for men who are older.  The "I got so scared, I thought no one could save me, you came along, scooped me up like a baby" also ties together with "You found me when I had lost my way" from On Our Way. Is there anything that K could have saved her from? And yeah, American is a very ambiguous song (I gave up trying to analyze it a long time ago, lol), I honestly can't make much sense of the bridge ("I don't even know what I'm saying" is right tbh), so I'm no help here, haha. Physical beauty seems more like a generic reference than anything imo. On Our Way has "How you get so hot? You’re making me crazy, hoping you'll never stop." and I definitely don't see it as a K song.
 
 
I don't really think lyrics like "Let's get out of this town, baby we're on fire" and "You know that we'll never leave if we don't get out, now" are all that ambiguous. The entirety of the song is about leaving town, something that never comes up in K songs. The only other times getting out of town is referenced directly such as this are in Prom Song (Gone Wrong) and Take Me To Paris, both 100% Mr. Campbell songs. That's way too important a detail to ignore imo, add in the fact that the chorus ties to Damn You ("Every now and then, the stars align" to "Now and then when the stars shine"), the pre-chorus ties to On Our Way, there's just too much evidence that points to it being about Mr. Campbell than about K, especially since Lana refers to Mr. Campbell as a "bad guy" and a "dangerous man" in Daddy Issues and Baby Blue Love (I've only fairly recently discovered both were Mr. Campbell songs, which is why I haven't brought them up before).
 
 
I've always interpreted Kill Kill as Lana telling K that she's "leaving [him]" in the sense that she's seeing other people after his imprisonment/death. In Bel Air, she seems to associate this with cheating ("I don't wanna be bad, I won't cheat you no more"). And by doing this, she's asking him if he knows about Ray (whoever the hell this is lol) and his girlfriend. She's Ray's girlfriend! That could also explain why she says "Do I know Ray is going to meet you?". She's either expressing her fear that Ray could be taken from her the same way K was, or she's afraid that her one true love is going to meet and find out about her current boyfriend, possibly even both. I'm not sure if she and K were broken up when he was arrested, but I guess it's possible. In TV in Black & White, she refers to herself as his "ex-girl", but it's unknown if she's talking about that moment in time or she's reminiscing (she could have already been dating at that point).
 
 
Oh God, sure says a lot about me when my favorite Lana lover is her damn TEACHER! 
Summertime Sadness is actually one of the times where just the mention of summer isn't enough to call it a Mr. Campbell song. Summertime Sadness is a very hard song to place imo, because it contains so many themes and references associated to various lovers. The "red dress" and "pale moonlight" are very K imo, but then there's also "beauty queen", which is usually related to Jimmy. The only time her lover is really mentioned in the song is during the bridge, which is frustratingly nonspecific, lol.
 
Young and Beautiful could possibly be about both Mr. Campbell and K, at least imo. I'd like to think that they're Lana's two most important loves of her life, with Mr. Campbell being her first love and K being her one true love. The first verse of the song, I think, could be referring to Mr. Campbell. "I've seen the world, done it all, had my cake now" is reminiscent of "I want my cake and I want to eat it too" from Lolita. "Hot summer nights, mid-July" makes me think of Mr. Campbell, as he seems to be commonly associated with the night, and summer/July which is mentioned and alluded to in songs like 1949, EMGHW, Damn You, etc. "When you and I were forever wild" is also pretty Campbell-ish, their escape(s) during the summer immediately come to mind. I only think though that the first verse and maybe the first chorus could be directed at him, the rest of the song seems very K.

Thanks for your replies guys. 
 
PMIAM was one of the few I wasn't entirely sure about, admittedly. It is a very vague song and there aren't enough clues/references in the lyrics to be able to really pinpoint who it's about. I do think the clip in the music video of the man in the suit being arrested is pretty important in regards to the meaning of the song, but still that may not be enough to go on.
 
Boarding School is definitely about Mr. Campbell (I refer to it in my analyses but I decided not to do a full analysis to it since it doesn't really do much to progress the ~storyline~ lol). The song notably makes a lot of references to drugs, which a quick Google search tells me that Kent School was infamous for its drug problems. I don't want to be too accusatory, but that could be something we might want to remember.
 
While developing my theory and posting it, I thought about adding 1949. It would be perfect as a Mr. Campbell song if it weren't for that pesky Pontiac, which we know Lana associates with Arthur Lynn. But I do like your theory, Lana does include a lot of non-literal references in her songs, so maybe it could still be related to Mr. Campbell?
 
At least part of EMGHW is inspired by Mr. Campbell, considering the lyric "You said I'd never make out outta here alive", which shows up in other forms in TIWMUG and Take Me To Paris, and of course the allusions to running away ("Leaving everything I ever knew behind"). Since we know that Lana may have taken some or even all of its lyrics from other songs, maybe it's about all of her most important loves at the time? Hawaiian Tropic and Daytona Meth are definite K songs imo, and 1949 could possibly be a Mr. Campbell song, as well as Heartshaped Chevrolet. "Every man deserves to see the sun rise" is also reminiscent of Velvet Crowbar, which ties to the famous unnamed addict/Jimmy Gnecco. Who knows tbh? 
 
I thought my interpretations of Without You and Lucky Ones would cause a bit of issue, since they're widely considered to be K songs. In the case of Without You, there are tons of parallels to Damn You. "Hello? Hello? C-can you hear me?" versus "Hello, hello? Where did you go?" and "We were two kids, just tryin' to get out. Lived on the dark side of the American dream." versus "We were two kids living life on the run, like the American dream." The bridge also ties to the themes of getting out of the town/getting out alive which is prevalent in other Mr. Campbell songs. With that being said, Without You and Damn You are far too similar lyrically for me to believe that they're about two different people, and we know part of the conflict in Damn You is that her lover left her for another woman, which doesn't seem to have been a problem in her relationship with K, and Without You was written as late as 2008, long before her relationship with Mike fell through. The two songs being about Mr. Campbell is the best bet imo.
 
As for Lucky Ones, I included it in my theory/analysis mainly because of the strong themes of leaving town/running away, which appear in other Mr. Campbell songs, such as Prom Song (Gone Wrong) and Take Me To Paris, as well as DICWB, EMGHW, Heartshaped Chevrolet, On Our Way, and Damn You. Based on that, running away, leaving town, making it out alive, life on the run, etc. are all definite Mr. Campbell themes. The lyric "I got so scared, I thought no one could save me, you came along scooped me up like a baby." also makes the most sense when you relate it to Lana's teenage years at Kent School. She was sent there for her alcohol issues and she was at her lowest point at the time, Mr. Campbell was there and he 'saved' her. "Every now and then, the stars align, boy and girl meet by the great design." also ties to the bridge in Damn You, with "Now and then when the stars shine, uou meet somebody like you." I explained above why Damn You is most likely about Mr. Campbell, and this also further ties all the songs together. All in all, I think the rest of the lyrics that tie to other Mr. Campbell-related songs outweigh the one "You're a careless con, and you're a crazy liar." lyric. And who knows, maybe she is referring to Mr. Campbell in that lyric? She certainly knows more about him than we do. 
 
Anyway, yeah, I pretty much only included National Anthem due to the interview where Lana said she didn't know "what cool was" until Mr. Campbell played her Biggie Smalls, which could explain "He says to 'be cool' but, I don't know how yet". The "Red, white, blue's in the sky" could also allude to fireworks which are mentioned in Damn You, "Hot, white, and blue" from On Our Way may also refer to it. The music video monologue also implies that the man left her ("I begged him to stay, tried to remember what we had in the beginning.), which we know the downfall of her and K's relationship was prison, not growing apart/leaving each other. The contents of the song may not be completely literal, but yeah, other than that, the rest of the lyrics are pretty vague so, meh, oh well. 
 
I must admit I got a bit carried away with all the associating songs with Mr. Campbell, lol. Maybe though, the reason Lana loves the summer is because it reminds her of her trips and escapes with Mr. Campbell? I mean, we wouldn't have known that Coney Island was a reference to K if it weren't for TV In Black & White (or even why the ocean was related to K, for that matter), we would just know it as a place that Lana loves. I don't think, however, that simple mentions of summer itself are enough to go on for determining whether or not a song is related to Mr. Campbell, but if the song contains other clues besides that, then why not?
 
I did look at Dum Dum while I was developing my analysis. The "I’m a wild child, bright child" and "You can't go to school today" are very teenage Lana-ish. The "You thought that you were done" also narrows it down to people who left her, meaning Mr. Campbell and Mike (at least I think). The "Living in L.A." lyric has me wondering though. Did she live in L.A. when she was on vacation from Kent School possibly? (I'm not sure how we could know that, but we somehow know that Mr. Campbell has a 1967 Red Chevy so.  ) The references to being a singer are a bit strange as well. She didn't really become a singer until she left the school when she was 18, did she? I guess the song could be about after she left the school and her desire to see him again, but that's a bit too stretchy for my tastes. But I'll keep my eyes and ears out, you might be on to something here. 
 
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Thank you! I was afraid my theories would be torn to shreds, lol.
 
I've also been thinking after I posted (yes, I think about this a lot), and I believe
National Anthem may be about Mr. Campbell as well. Aside from the title directly relating to Oh Say Can You See, the chorus indicates that it's set during the summer, specifically July, considering "Red, white, blue is in the sky" could mean fireworks, also tying it to On Our Way and Damn You. Furthermore, "Dark and lonely, I need somebody to hold me" could be about how she felt when she was first sent to the boarding school. But the most prominent clue:
 
According to this interview: http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/entertainment/articles/2011-09/19/gq-music-lana-del-rey-video-games-interview/page/2 (I didn't know how to link it, sorry!), she didn't know what was cool until Mr. Campbell played Biggie Smalls for her. This could potentially explain "He says to 'be cool', but I don't know how yet". And we know from Boarding School, Dynamite, Heartshaped Chevrolet, On Our Way, and Without You (if they are all in fact Mr. Campbell songs) that she thought he was pretty awesome.
 
Now the ending monologue:
 
And I remember when I met him.
It was so clear that he was the only one for me.
We both knew right away.
 
Lucky Ones, On Our Way, and Damn You all mention how they thought they were meant to be together.
 
And as the years went on things got more difficult.
We were faced with more challenges.
I begged him to stay.
Tried to remember what we had in the beginning.
 
So we know it was someone who left her. Heartshaped Chevrolet tells us that she really didn't want him to leave her, but he eventually ended up doing so by the time of Damn You. Maybe some of these challenges were a wife? Or perhaps all the business that comes with a student dating a teacher?
 
He was charismatic, magnetic, electric, and everybody knew him.
 
Everyone from town said that he was so cool. 
 
When he walked in every woman's head turned.
Everyone stood up to talk to him.
 
He's a looker. Lucky Ones, On Our Way, and National Anthem itself all confirm this.
 
I always got the sense that he became torn between being a good person and missing out on all of the opportunities that life could offer a man as magnificent as him.
 
Possibly, he was torn between staying with his wife and living an otherwise normal life, and leaving town and running away with Lana?
 
And I loved him, I loved him, I loved him, I loved him.
And I still love him, I love him.
 
The only other past boyfriend who we know Lana clearly still loves is K, but he didn't leave her. We know she could have left Jimmy (or they never had a serious relationship at all), and she definitely left Mike and it wasn't amicable, so the only logical choice is Mr. Campbell. If Damn You is really about him, then he left her to be with another woman.
 
Also, Puppy Love mentions both Jackie O. and Marilyn Monroe, and Lana ends up playing both of them in the music video. That may not be as prominent as the other clues, but I just felt like saying it. 
 
This also extends to JFK. In Puppy Love, she likens him to JFK by referring to him as the president without his Jackie O, not to mention the entire music video for National Anthem. "He was the king of the town with a crown that would never fall" could refer to how everyone thought he was cool from Boarding School. Summer nights in July are directly mentioned in the bridge, which from Damn You, On Our Way, and National Anthem, we can infer that they spent at least the fourth of July together. The rest of the bridge also tells us that she still loves this person and wants them to return to her, which as I mentioned before, Mr. Campbell is the only one who could fit the bill, considering Without You.
 
Starry Eyed also goes quite well with JFK and National Anthem. "Heaven in your eyes" from National Anthem makes another appearance, and "Well, once you and I, we were the king and queen of this town" refers back to JFK how Mr. Campbell was the king of the town, only this time, Lana is the queen. "The sun's settin' on our love, bye baby" makes it clear that the song is set after their relationship was over, or at least close to ending. "It doesn't matter what they say" connects to Prom Song (Gone Wrong) and Driving In Cars With Boys, the others didn't approve of their relationship. "Life doesn't always work out like you planned it" could refer to how they planned to run away and spend the rest of their lives together, but it ended up not lasting. And again, "'Cause you and I have an undying kind of love" indicates that she's still very much in love.
 
Well, that's it I guess. I didn't mean for this post to be this long, I promise. 

Not sure if this thread is still going on, but I've been reading it for a while and it's really interesting, haha. My personal favorite Lana mystery is definitely her possible relationship with Mr. Campbell, and I've spent a while speculating and developing this theory that I'd like to share.
 
I'm going to categorize and try to explain and connect the lyrics from some songs. This is actually my first post here so I'm a bit nervous, so here goes nothing!
 
Note: Please remember that we have no reason to believe any of this actually happened. For all we know, Lana could be taking events that happened to others and incorporating them into her own fictional storyline.
 


 
So, let me know what you think, and if you any more ideas of songs that I may have missed or any other theories. Thanks for reading! 

As the original tea-spiller about Mr. Campbell, I'd nonetheless like to note that this point can't be stressed enough:

Bless ha generosity
 
Response track to Summertime Sadness tbh

Dont worry we'll probably get Rob Orton Mix, DH Mix ,iTunes Version, 2nd iTunes Version, Youtube Version, Radio edit, Demo, Instrumental or something

Tbh I don't care for Kill Kill THAT much. AKA's version is great. The only old song that deserves to be on UV is Hundred Dollar Bill since she actually says Ultraviolent in the song.

Unless Lana and Rick changed or added new lyrics. 
 
 
They probably just meant songs he co-wrote with Lana rather than songs he produced, since he also wrote West Coast and we know Dan definitely produced it.

Yeah, she co-wrote, and in the album booklet, she's also credited as doing backing vocals in the song. Out of all the background vocals, I'm not sure which are her and which are Lana, but I think she's the one singing the "Oooh" in the chorus.

It's about time Lana registered the tiles. Can't wait to find out the composers. 

It sounds like whoever remixed it used the vocal track from the radio mix. I'd assume "leaving you for the music" means she left him so she could have a career as a singer.

Please tell me that I wasn't the only one who thought about Prom Song, Boarding School, Puppy Love and every other song about her crush on a teacher after reading this part of The Age interview. I just...

I don't think Black Beauty should be included in the "no remakes" mentality. All we heard was a rough demo, not to mention the fact that we weren't meant to hear anything at all. It was never supposed to be seen as an 'old song reworked', if it hadn't leaked, no one would be saying anything right now.
 
I think it's better that the fans leaking the song didn't force Lana to leave it off the album, especially considering how much it apparently means to her (she was mentioning it in interviews long before the album was even announced, and out of the batch of songs that leaked last summer, it seemed to be the only one that really upset her).

THE INTRO WITH THE GUITAR OMFG        

That's probably close to true. considering the German radio mix of Summertime Sadness was closer to the demo than the album version.

I somehow feel like this is the demo version Lana recorded before rerecording it with Dan...

Hey!
 
So I was listening to the Swiss national radio station and they played the radio mix of West Coast for the first time! 
 
Luckily, I ripped the entire version (expect for the first 20 seconds and the last few seconds, because the radio host was talking -.-). 
 
Here it is:
 
 
https://soundcloud.com/zen0l/west-coast-radio-mix
 
 
Hope you'll enjoy it!

I see no reason not to be overjoyed with this tracklist. Here's what I like most about it:
The songs are long! That's a strong indication of quality in my opinion. FMWUTTT. There are few (if any) things that beat controversial Lana. Black Beauty. It's an amazing song that seems to be very important to Lana, so it deserves to be on an album and not just some unreleased song. When she first mentioned it, it appeared as though it was originally meant to be a very central track on the upcoming album, and I'm glad she didn't let some idiot completely destroy that by leaking it. And however great the demo is, it's a bit too monotonous for a five-minute song. Hopefully this version will be more complete. Cruel World is Lana's favorite from UV, it's the opening song, it's her longest track to date... If that's not cause for hype, I don't know what is. We finally get to hear Old Money!! The Other Woman. The original is beautiful and I love all Lana's covers, I think I've preferred all of them over the originals. With as much as 14 tracks on the album, I don't mind that one of them is a cover at all. I like that there's a track called Ultraviolence. I'm very curious about how it will sound.

I don't fully understand why some of you keep saying that she's using old music solely because Black Beauty is on the tracklist. The song was originally intended for UV (or whatever it was to be titled at the time). It's not like it's a song left out from BTD.

What if Pretty When You Cry is a VAST cover? The length seems to fit and it sounds like it would be perfect for Lana imo.

I don't think Black Beauty should be included in the "no remakes" mentality. All we heard was a rough demo, not to mention the fact that we weren't meant to hear anything at all. It was never supposed to be seen as an 'old song reworked', if it hadn't leaked, no one would be saying anything right now.
 
I think it's better that the fans leaking the song didn't force Lana to leave it off the album, especially considering how much it apparently means to her (she was mentioning it in interviews long before the album was even announced, and out of the batch of songs that leaked last summer, it seemed to be the only one that really upset her).