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FUCK
YOU
KEVIN 

i literally love wildflower wildfire

nectar time bitch
the way she says crazy like cwazy is my favourite thing ever

godflower godfire

i literally love wildflower wildfire

oh interesting, thanks!

Interesting that they started with If You Lie Down but now are going in order

if you lie down outro playing in the ballroom of my mind intensely

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

oh man I didnt even look at the lyrics elle posted. I hear rolls' every time. Didnt even think someone might hear horses.

Somewhere I saw the lyrics written as "trade in my new truck for Rollses" and I feel like this might be the correct lyric, since it makes sense in the context of trading one simple vehicle for a fancier car with a prestigious reputation (a Rolls-Royce).

Somewhere I saw the lyrics written as "trade in my new truck for Rollses" and I feel like this might be the correct lyric, since it makes sense in the context of trading one simple vehicle for a fancier car with a prestigious reputation (a Rolls-Royce).

SInce I read that, it definitely sounds like that to me, and at least it sounds more like 'Rollses' than 'Horses'. Let's not forget, though, that this is the same woman who sang that her friend should 'take the whale' in HBTB

Somewhere I saw the lyrics written as "trade in my new truck for Rollses" and I feel like this might be the correct lyric, since it makes sense in the context of trading one simple vehicle for a fancier car with a prestigious reputation (a Rolls-Royce).

Somewhere I saw the lyrics written as "trade in my new truck for Rollses" and I feel like this might be the correct lyric, since it makes sense in the context of trading one simple vehicle for a fancier car with a prestigious reputation (a Rolls-Royce).

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.

Okay so maybe I'm just being extra, but does anyone feel like this part is kind of directly referring to fans/us speculating about her personal story?
 
"Here's the deal (cause I know you want to talk about it)
 Here's the deal - you say there's gaps to fill, so here
 Here's the deal - my father never stepped in when his wife
 would rage at me" 
 
Like obviously it's speaking about her past and her family, but the way she says "here's the deal" a bunch of times seems kind of like she's consciously saying "okay, you all have been wondering about this so here you go". And then the way she specifically says "gaps to fill in" reminds me a lot of how people on this board have spoken about the time periods and details of her past that are hard to tie together...maybe I'm reaching, but idk, it shook me 
 

Okay so maybe I'm just being extra, but does anyone feel like this part is kind of directly referring to fans/us speculating about her personal story?
 
"Here's the deal (cause I know you want to talk about it)
 Here's the deal - you say there's gaps to fill, so here
 Here's the deal - my father never stepped in when his wife
 would rage at me" 
 
Like obviously it's speaking about her past and her family, but the way she says "here's the deal" a bunch of times seems kind of like she's consciously saying "okay, you all have been wondering about this so here you go". And then the way she specifically says "gaps to fill in" reminds me a lot of how people on this board have spoken about the time periods and details of her past that are hard to tie together...maybe I'm reaching, but idk, it shook me 
 

i'm pretty sure that there was only one "wild at heart" tee when i first looked, and now there are two. so perhaps they are indeed still adding things

guys i wanna live in this fake village
 

how have yall not mentioned her EMERALD RING!!  
 
alright mine would be: 
1. Her favorite sweater 
2. Her emerald ring 
3. The gold dangly earrings she sold to the pawn shop - would be hard to find if you ever tried 
4. The john deer tractor... try destroying one of those 
5. The blue flower crown from the BTD MV. I would expect she still has that for memorabilia. Delicate and easy to destroy tho. 
6. To copy from @TheCultureIsLit, the cowboy boots that miley wants!! 
7, And lastly maybe her key to a room at the Chateau Marmot? Didn't she live there for a while? Or maybe she would tie her self to the swimming pool. As long as the Chateau has a pool, she will remain.. glimmering.  
 
 
 

1. The trailer she lived in at the trailer park
2. Her bejewelled bra from the AKA cover
3. Coke necklace
4. The H of the Hollywood sign
5. A handbound copy of Violet Bent Backwards
6. The horse cowboy boots that Miley wants
7. Nikki Lane

1. The trailer she lived in at the trailer park
2. Her bejewelled bra from the AKA cover
3. Coke necklace
4. The H of the Hollywood sign
5. A handbound copy of Violet Bent Backwards
6. The horse cowboy boots that Miley wants
7. Nikki Lane

1. The trailer she lived in at the trailer park
2. Her bejewelled bra from the AKA cover
3. Coke necklace
4. The H of the Hollywood sign
5. A handbound copy of Violet Bent Backwards
6. The horse cowboy boots that Miley wants
7. Nikki Lane

1. The trailer she lived in at the trailer park
2. Her bejewelled bra from the AKA cover
3. Coke necklace
4. The H of the Hollywood sign
5. A handbound copy of Violet Bent Backwards
6. The horse cowboy boots that Miley wants
7. Nikki Lane