"Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass" Spoken Word Poetry Album - Pre-Release Thread

[Rorman Nockwell]

Pasting this here so it doesn't get buried in the IG thread

 

Patent Leather Do-Over

 

Sylvia
I knew what you meant when you talked about swimming in the ocean and leaving your patent leather black shoes pointed towards it while you swam
It tickled you to leave them there
It was the thought of a young child
or of a lost fairy
It reminded me of who I am
That's why I'm now at this facility by the ocean
And why I go barefoot and why I go calmly
Why I leave my shoes up by the stairway
I do it for you and I do it for me
because having learned from others and from you
I learned there was a missing piece to finding existential calmness and and domestic bliss to lead to peace
You see, you cant fall in love with a man like Ted or a musician who sings about being free
A woodworker doesn't a good man make if he wants his work to be on TV
You have to separate the wheat from the chaff
You have to be discerning
It takes diligence, consequence and other things to keep that sea from churning
and to keep yourself from longing to let those painted waves take you under
It isn't just the water black that makes the body plunder
from high sea cliffs
I know, my dear
I wish that I had been here
or there
I wish that you were here now
If you're not now
because who knows how these things work?
Sylvia, Marilyn, Violet, Diana
All of my kind women
Who came before me
Blonde
I dyed my hair black for you
I turned my back in that black pond
I swear I wont stop until I'm dead
and here I am at 34
and what for?
To bring my pair of baby pattern leather shoes to turn them the other way
towards the sea cliff stairs, not at the ocean
To bring them back up safe to the facility instead
and I think of you as I walk to the 280 wooden steps dynamited into the cliffs 100 years before
I let myself into room 2 and got undressed
I was sunburnt
Contemplative and sore
and as I fell asleep
by Gabapentin
I lay my head on the pillow
and stretched my hand out on the cool white linen
and sang you a lemon melody
I kept the shoes on the sill by the window seat
in case you got restless and wanted to leave
and I hugged you with my baby's breath
and sang your spirit to bed
the way I would have if you were my child
or if I had children
My Queen Anne's lace heart weightless on your little head



 

[Yosemite]

Pasting this here so it doesn't get buried in the IG thread

Don't post it in here, it's not from Violet.

It's from Behind the Iron Gates, post it under there

[Rorman Nockwell]

Don't post it in here, it's not from Violet.

It's from Behind the Iron Gates, post it under there

It's from the Spoken Word album ... which is this?

 

Pretty sure Iron Gates is a book.

 

Nobody knows for sure, though

[Yosemite]

It's from the Spoken Word album ... which is this?

 

Pretty sure Iron Gates is a book.

 

Nobody knows for sure, though

Uhm... She said on insta:

"patent leather do-over from 'behind the iron gates'"

[GeminiLanaFan]

Woah just fucking woah

[bluefiona]

Pasting this here so it doesn't get buried in the IG thread

 

Patent Leather Do-Over

 

Sylvia

I knew what you meant when you talked about swimming in the ocean and leaving your patent leather black shoes pointed towards it while you swam

It tickled you to leave them there

It was the thought of a young child

or of a lost fairy

It reminded me of who I am

That's why I'm now at this facility by the ocean

And why I go barefoot and why I go calmly

Why I leave my shoes up by the stairway

I do it for you and I do it for me

because having learned from others and from you

I learned there was a missing piece to finding existential calmness and and domestic bliss to lead to peace

You see, you cant fall in love with a man like Ted or a musician who sings about being free

A woodworker doesn't a good man make if he wants his work to be on TV

You have to separate the wheat from the chaff

You have to be discerning

It takes diligence, consequence and other things to keep that sea from churning

and to keep yourself from longing to let those painted waves take you under

It isn't just the water black that makes the body plunder

from high sea cliffs

I know, my dear

I wish that I had been here

or there

I wish that you were here now

If you're not now

because who knows how these things work?

Sylvia, Marilyn, Violet, Diana

All of my kind women

Who came before me

Blonde

I dyed my hair black for you

I turned my back in that black pond

I swear I wont stop until I'm dead

and here I am at 34

and what for?

To bring my pair of baby pattern leather shoes to turn them the other way

towards the sea cliff stairs, not at the ocean

To bring them back up safe to the facility instead

and I think of you as I walk to the 280 wooden steps dynamited into the cliffs 100 years before

I let myself into room 2 and got undressed

I was sunburnt

Contemplative and sore

and as I fell asleep

by Gabapentin

I lay my head on the pillow

and stretched my hand out on the cool white linen

and sang you a lemon melody

I kept the shoes on the sill by the window seat

in case you got restless and wanted to leave

and I hugged you with my baby's breath

and sang your spirit to bed

the way I would have if you were my child

or if I had children

My Queen Anne's lace heart weightless on your little head

 

 

 

 

 

 

WOW.

 

[Rorman Nockwell]

Uhm... She said on insta:

"patent leather do-over from 'behind the iron gates'"

 

Oh, I didn't see. Then we have four projects (?)

 

Violet book, Violet spoken, Iron book, Iron spoken

 

Sis wot

[SuperMegaStan]

she did not start teasing the second book already when the first was not even out / had a release day planned 

[FredRed]

she did not start teasing the second book already when the first was not even out / had a release day planned 

With Lana an album/book in the hand is worth 20 that she teased.

[anwdelrey]

That poem she posted today is still sitting w me. So beautiful.

[gatadelrey]

I think maybe since she said this newest poem is from the second poetry book, maybe she is waiting to release a spoken word album that has poetry from both books? Could explain why it’s delayed so badly.

[ArtDecoDelRey]

we have a cover for this book / audiobook, we have a release date for COCC, and we have two videos of a poem from beyond the iron gate - mess

[American Whore]

It's from the Spoken Word album ... which is this?

 

Pretty sure Iron Gates is a book.

 

Nobody knows for sure, though

 

There will be 2 spoken word albums

[GeminiLanaFan]

There will be 2 spoken word albums

Or a spoken album made of the best poems from the two other books?!?

[gatadelrey]

Or a spoken album made of the best poems from the two other books?!?

This is what I think too. Bc she never said two spoken word albums, and now she’s recorded new poems with music from the second book.

[necessary sacrifice]

This is what I think too. Bc she never said two spoken word albums, and now she’s recorded new poems with music from the second book.

I saw a theory on twitter that the only album we’re waiting on is the one spoken word album made of poems from both books and that Chemtrails is actually the name of the lead single and istg I hope that’s not true bc I interpreted it as a music album and at least one spoken word album (if not two). I hope there’s two spoken word albums, but if not, at least we’re getting two books.

[rubytuesday]

I saw a theory on twitter that the only album we’re waiting on is the one spoken word album made of poems from both books and that Chemtrails is actually the name of the lead single and istg I hope that’s not true bc I interpreted it as a music album and at least one spoken word album (if not two). I hope there’s two spoken word albums, but if not, at least we’re getting two books.

That actually makes a lot of sense. The title does sound like the title of a book/collection of poems/spoke lmao word something rather than a music album... but who knows. It’s Lana

[CinnamonGay]

...she literally said.

 

" my new record COCC is special *AS WELL*"

 

This implies it's a musical album.

 

Her poetry is different..books and spoken word. With the same titles.

[Hounds Of Love]

...she literally said.

 

" my new record COCC is special *AS WELL*"

 

This implies it's a musical album.

 

Her poetry is different..books and spoken word. With the same titles.

lol always the same debate when she says 'record'

no it could be a fucking single! no it means the spoken word albums!

[gatadelrey]

Idk but she hasn’t brought up the spoken word(s) again since like January I think when she said it was delayed. I hope chemtrails is actual music and I hope at least one spoken word is coming. I feel like if she’s been putting newer poetry to music with Jack from her second book that surely violet must be done since that was the first....?