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Days like today make me understand that one person on live with Lana in October who just kept asking her to clarify what lyrics actually are

This is pretty much exactly how I feel, too (and we are almost the same age so my timeline is similar)
I don't love her current direction but I'm okay with that, and she will always be one of my favourites. 

I've been a fan since the Lana Del Rey EP dropped (this one). I read about it on a New York City-centered blog (forgot what it was called). I fell soooooooo in love with her music and her image. I still feel that way, honestly. I connect to her music really deeply and can't see myself unstanning any time soon.

I'm a listener of 10 years (i think October will be the official decade), and Lana has remained in my top 3 artists this whole time. She was my #1 back in 2013-2015, because those eras were everything I ever wanted, and even tho I haven't felt such a "favourite" moment with her music since 2015-16, she remains in my top 3 artists because of the huge impact she had on me then, and how much she still interests me. Nothing will top that and I can be happy about it. 
Right now I feel like less of a big stan and more of an older fan that will obviously keep in close with the news, but no longer expects her new releases to be my new favourite thing, if that makes sense. It's taken me long enough to be happy about sinking into an old familiarity with her music, and im learning to be more grateful with what we have than expectant for new and better things.  
I probably sound like someone talking about music from like 30 years ago, but I FEEL these years gone by ok  I was 15, now I'm turning 26, its a long time!

I might be a bit in a " I am hyped for LDR9 moment" this morning but I really realized I love these lyrics this morning. It still creates a picture in my head. Like she is coming back from grocery shopping & puts the plastic bags on the kitchen counter & somehow she gets reminded of an older relationship & she kinda zooms  out of the reality & is thinking about the old relationship. She just stands there infront of the kitchen counter , tracing her finger tips over the plastic bags , maybe starring at the wall or out of the window while thinking  about that relationship & how much she wishes she could get the attention from that lover again just for a minute. Maybe after that some anger comes in because she can't get  the attention or that relationship back even though she wishes she could. 
Idk but sometimes moments like that happen to me too, like I'm doing sth & then for whatever reason your mind zones out of the moment , sometimes I still continue doing the thing but it's like you are stuck & doing the same movements without a progression because the mind is somewhere else. I hope you all know what I mean.  
It also reminds me of Barefeet On Linoleum. I always imagine her being in the kitchen , preparing to make stew later but then she completly zones out & get's lost in her own thoughts. I really can imagine that this song could be something like that.

I love how I automatically went to "probably grocery bags" and then people were like DRUGS, BODY BAGS, MURDER, MORGUE 
I hope it's your theories and not mine. Your concepts sounds much more interesting than what I thought it was about 

Tbh if I ever end up on live with Lana, I WILL ask her about the Trash Magic lyric “used to go to the ????? where you’d buy me a slice of cherry pie”
Truly THE greatest Lana lyrical mystery imo x

either way she was getting tied tf up!

Not sure why you're being weird when it's about lyrics that didn't add up while listening to the song I'd like to know the real lyrics to a song I've loved for 7 years if I don't already, it's that simple. I'm not interested in you personally, you were tagged because I mentioned your post then you wanted to be weird with that gif in every post and not quoting me while responding as if I had insulted you. You made it weird. Goodnight.

yes makes so much sense for her to sing that and then show her hands tied up in knots in almost every live performance 

I must say, it has been quite the journey. 
 
She is only a few years older than I am and I've been following her work since 2012. There were times when people questioned my interest in her, deeming her early work to be very "teenage-y" in subject matter or "superficial" and her image "carefully crafted". Women who liked Lana Del Rey were "trying-too-hard"s or "look-i'm-the-edgiest"s. Even though I understood why it might have come off as such, I've always thought the world she built was intelligent enough to play with appearances, stereotypes or reference its own authenticity or lack thereof, blurring the lines between real and the fake to the point you can't quite tell if she's being ironic or embracing it. In order to understand how brilliant she really was to pull that off, though, you had to be really invested in her world. On top of that, I thought her earlier image was just who she was at that moment. Maybe Lizzy Grant always wanted to be that girl, but didn't have the platform or resources to do so, it was always who she was deep down inside but couldn't manifest.
 
Take "Brooklyn Baby", for example. Is she making fun of "edgy" hipster girls, or is she going all the way to embrace that stereotype? Is she saying, so what is so bad about it? Are the things young women think is cool is immediately dismissed as trying to seem "rebellious" and "different"? Isn't there something intrinsically human about all of it? Or is she being completely ironic? Is it both?  
 
There were times where I thought I completely lost interest, especially during the roll-out of Blue Banisters. I also didn't and still don't like NFR! that much. But I come to find myself growing with her, changing and evolving, facing my own traumas while she goes back to explore her own and eventually I've grown to like BB very much. The best kind of art for me is one that truly leaves its imprint on my life and I hadn't experienced that kind of thing after becoming a fan of Nirvana at the age of 14 until I encountered Lana. She is an exceptional artist and I'm more in love with her world than ever.

It could very well be referring to body bags in the sense that she is reminiscing over the "remains" of the relationships that are over. Trying to invoke the "chemistry (that) never dies" by running her fingers on the souvenirs and memories of them. 

I’ve made myself believe it’s « ribbons AND knots », goodnight

She clearly says “with my ribbons ON knots” here as opposed to other performances saying “in”.
 
edit: So I think the album version also says with ribbons on knots. I don’t know if it’s correct grammatically but it’s Lana so
 
edit: could it be « with ribbons OR knots » I’m losing sleep somebody help 

Okay but the album version specifically is the one to be bothered about Guessing we won't find out unless Lana does another live stream if someone remembers

some days her ribbons are knots, some days in knots, some days on knots
 
comfortable with her ribbons, cozy with who she is... cozy
 

with my ribbons and knots
 

She switches it up live all the time though, there was the whole "gun in my mouth" thing for Florida Kilos earlier in the thread because she sang it live, but on the album it's "Zoom" or something

we know she has ribbons, we know she has knots, we just don't know what the relation of ribbons to knots is in terms of its preposition
i think it changes depending on her mood
 

This. Not a native speaker, but there’s no way she says “in” on the album version. I hear “with ribbons our knots” which doesn’t make much sense I think 

This. Not a native speaker, but there’s no way she says “in” on the album version. I hear “with ribbons our knots” which doesn’t make much sense I think 

I doubt she sings "with ribbons in knots" on MTWBT, maybe on knots(?) but she doesn't sing "in"

I'm screaming because it's one of my favorite songs ever and I always thought she was saying "blue ribbons on ice" like referencing "pabst blue ribbon on ice" line of this is what makes us girls
but since I'm no native english speaker I'm probably so wrong  I'm kinda upset now lmao

This song is beautiful
It looks Bill is just a character lana made up and then shared it with Barrie 

[Lana Del Rey]
Bill takes me down to the beach in the coat that he got from his father
He whispers to me that sometimes he thinks he sees things over the water
Like maybe UFOs or something
Flying in the air
Well I don’t know about those, Bill
But I don’t care
 
Slow burn
I’m hot like a fire
I’m sober
But you’re getting higher
Life is so crazy, I can’t take it 
But at least we’ve got tonight
We’ve still got tonight
 
[Barrie James O'Neill]
Bill takes me down to the beach in East Hampton and walks on the water
Says they don’t know it yet, but I’m the second coming of the father
& he keeps on fishing trying to turn one into twenty
Turning the ocean into wine for the summertime
 
[Lana & Barrie]
Slow burn
I’m hot like a fire
I’m sober
But you’re getting higher
Life is so crazy, I can’t take it 
But at least we’ve got tonight
We’ve still got tonight
We’ve still got tonight
We’ve still got tonight
 
[Lana Del Rey]
Talk to me
Tell me I'm wrong
Come to me
Come to me
Tell me I'm wrong
Come to me
Send to me
Tell me I'm wrong
 
Slow burn
I’m hot like a fire
I’m sober
But you’re still getting higher
Life is so crazy, I can’t take it
But at least we’ve got tonight