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its more a blog post than it is a poem but its one of my faves - her delivery is soo innocent and i love it

"ppl love my jokes", shes repeating what the sampled woman is saying

noone forces u to buy the cd tho when u can buy the digital version for less than half that price?

one is the UK edition and one the US, just buy whatever version is cheaper in your region

i havent tried to split Violet up yet, but ive never had problems in the past

"expensive" yall on something rn, its like 8 dollars or so i told yall its not coming to streaming services cuz its a god damn BOOK BTW yall should buy it on Google Play, they let you download the entire thing and you can split it up with Audacity or smth and add it to your music library

yass its out on google play europe im listening rn

everywhere as in that one (1) track is charting (and lbr, in new zealand all it takes is prolly 3 sales to get #64) i deffo dont expect them to put it on streaming services - this is mostly coming from simon & schuster after all, they prolly wont allow for it to be put on streaming in its entirety.

usually audiobooks are either on streaming services or on sale as actual books. since Violet is on sale as a book on audible, iBooks etc it prolly wont be released on music streaming services. It wouldnt make sense to only upload 1 track instead of the entire album on release day

:/ i liked the original version more, for this segment: Or should I just be here now In the kitchen Bare feet on linoleum Bored - but not unhappy Cutting vegetables over boiling water that I will later turn into stew

i dont wanna wait another 7 hours

can they release it on some store where u can buy it even without a local credit card

its an audio book. not an album. pretty sure this is not going to count as a studio album in her contract, either.

yuh makes sense! i think i got it now, will update if it differs from the version we get in the book

please move to the VBBOTG section @@admin cant open new topics there

http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/11606-la-who-am-i-to-love-you/ transcribed the thing here, cant really make out what she's saying at the ?? parts tho so if anyone wanna help ur welcome

Audiobook version: I left my city for San Francisco Took a freeride off a billionaire's jet LA, I'm from nowhere, who am I to love you? LA, I've got nothing, who am I to love you when I'm feeling this way, and I've got nothing to offer? LA, not quite the city that never sleeps Not quite the city that wakes But the city that dreams, for sure If by dreams you mean in nightmares LA, im a dreamer but I'm from nowhere, who am I to dream? LA, I'm upset, I have complaints, listen to me They say I came from money and I didn't And I didn't even have love, and it's unfair LA, I sold my life's rights for a big check, and I'm upset And now I can't sleep at night, and I don't know why Plus, I love Saks, so why did I do that when I know it won't last? LA, I picked San Francisco because the man who doesn't love me lives there LA, I am pathetic, but so are you, can I come home now? Daughter to noone, table for one, party of thousands, of people I don't know, at Delilah where my ex-husband works I sick of this, but can I come home now? Mother to noone, private jet for one, back home to the Tudor house that borne a thousand murder plots Hancock park, it's treated me very badly I'm resentful The witch on the corner, the neighbour nobody wanted The reason for Garcetti's extra security LA I know I am bad, but I have nowhere else to go, can I come home now? I never had a mother, will you let me make the sun my own for now And the ocean my son I'm quite good at tending to things despite my upbringing, can I raise your mountains? I promise to keep them greener, make them my daughters, teach them about fire, warn them about water I'm lonely, LA, can I come home now? I left my city for San Francisco And I'm writing from the Golden Gate Bridge But it's not going as I planned I took a freeride off a billionaire and brought my typewriter and promised myself that I would stay but It's just not going the way that I thought It's not that I feel different, and I don't mind that it's not hot It's just that I belong to noone which means There's only one place for me The city not quite awake, the city not quite asleep The city that's still deciding how good it can be And also I can't sleep without you Noones ever really held me like you Not quite tightly, but certainly I feel your body next to me Smoking next to me Vaping lightly next to me And I love that you love the neon lights like me Orange in the distance We both love that And I love that we have that in common Also, neither one of us can go back to New York For you are unmoving As for me, it won't be my city again until I'm dead Fuck the New York Post LA, who am I to need you when I have needed so much, asked for so much, and what I have been given, I'm not sure yet I may never know that either until I'm dead For now though, what I do know Is although I don't deserve you Not you at your best and your splendor With towering eucalyptus trees that sway in my dominion Not you at your worst Totally on fire, unlivable, unbreathable, I need you You see, I have no mother And you do A continental shelf A larger piece of land from where you came And I? I'm an orphan A little seashell that rests upon your native shores One of many, for sure But because of that, I surely must love you closely to the most of anyone For that reason, let me love you Don't mind my desperation Let me hold you, not just for vacation But for real and for forever Make it real life Let me be a real wife to you Girlfriend, lover, mother, friend I adore you Dont be put off by my quick-wordedness I'm generally quite quiet Quite a meditator, actually I'll do very well down by Paramhansa Yogananda's realization center, I'm sure I promise you'll barely even notice me Unless you want to notice me Unless you prefer a rambunctious child In which case, I can turn it on, too I'm quite good on the stage as you may know You might have heard of me So either way, I'll fit in just fine So just love me by doing nothing And perhaps by not shaking the county line I'm yours if you'll have me, but regardless You're mine Book version:

the first minute or so its 5 minutes long aaaaah this gonna take a long time for the full thing

btw its over 5 minutes so gimme some time to transcribe this, the most shocking lines to me are

clarifying, its on New Zealand spotify... gonna transcribe it in a sec, its so dramatic i-

its so dramatic weee i love it "i never had a mother" nooooo lana

LA who am i to love you is randomly on spotify lmao

made a new zealandian audible account and it says "available in 13 hours" we lost

she never said that. it was an assumption made by a journalist.

lemme just give my 2 cents on this cuz reading this is giving me a stroke 1) does anyone really believe an actual publisher would sell the book for $1 when the production cost of a hardcover book are extremly expensive? we all knew this was out of the picture once it moved from her garage hand-binding workshop to a real publisher 2) "she ist just donating her advance" like, our girl can count herself lucky if she manages to make more profit than her advance with this book