Past the Bushes Cypress Thriving

[Elle 121,278]

Written Version

I saw you in the mirror

you were wearing your hair differently

carrying the air differently

You said you want your hair long parted in the middle

Long in solidarity just like all his women

 

Long Beach

 

Aimless

 

your fingers wiping oil on the paper w precision

w desicion like an artist never seen yet with a vision

 

W a reason

Started with venom at the ceiling

not the grass

but straight ahead

Just At the skyline

w precision

laser vision

 

time was stopping

moving through u.

U dictated

by what moved u

 

only moving never thinking

 

Math the sun that’s slowly sinking

at the height of the afternoon

In the heat of the summer evening

Like a phoenix like a chem trail like a wavelength

one’s claiming

 

Georgia or Keefe

Georgia peaches

Doing nothing but your painting

For forever

Forget teachers

Forgive him for ever leaving

 

love is rising

No resisting

cheeks are flushing

Now you’re living

 

Say goodbye now

no resisting

Live your life like

no ones listening

 

Be the art the life is breathing

Be the soul the world is living.

 

Do what you want

For you only

Not for giving

Just for taking

No ones listening

 

at the end of the Lime and 10th street down the road that’s green

and winding

Past the bushes cypress thriving past the chain

link fence

and driving

further down the road less travelled

there u are athleisureware unraveled

Now I see you clear

 

Standing stoic blue and denim

eyes not blue but clear like

heaven

 

you don’t want to be forgotten

 

 

You just want to disappear

 

 

---

 

 

Spoken Word Version

I saw you in the mirror

You were wearing your hair differently

Carrying the air differently

You say you wear your hair long parted in the middle

Long in solidarity just like all his women

 

In Long Beach

 

Aimless

 

Your fingers wiping oil on the paper with precision

With desicion like an artist never seen yet with a vision

 

With a reason

Stared with venom at the ceiling

Not the grass

But straight ahead

Just at the skyline

With precision

Laser vision

 

Time was stopping

Moving through you.

You dictated

By what moved you

 

Only moving never thinking

 

Matched the sun that’s slowly sinking

At the height of afternooning

In the heat of the summer evening

Like a phoenix like a chem trail like a wavelength

No one’s claiming

 

Georgia or Keefe

Georgia peaches

Doing nothing but your painting

For forever

Forget teachers

Forgive him for ever leaving

 

Love is rising

No resisting

Cheeks are flushing

Now you’re living

 

Say goodbye now

No resisting

Live your life like

No one's listening

 

Be the art the life is breathing

Be the soul the world is living

 

For you only

Not for giving

Just for taking

No one's listening

 

At the end of Rose and Ridgely down the street that’s green and winding

Past the bushes cypress thriving

Past the chain link fence and driving

Further down the road less travelled

There you are athleisureware unraveled

Now I see you clear

 

Standing stoic blue and denim

Eyes not blue but clear like

Heaven

 

You don’t want to be forgotten

 

You just want to disappear

 

 

 

Edited July 28, 2020 by Elle
updated with spoken word version x

[evilentity 13,343]

Chemtrails? Seriously Lana?

[maxthehitman 1,729]

I liked this poem  

 

Chemtrails? Seriously Lana?

 

I believe in this line she is talking about the airline jet-engine contrails which we often see when

a jet aircraft is flying above our heads a few miles up in the sky.   Some people have been calling them "chemtrails" but

in fact , its really called contrails. 

 

Here is a little scientific explanation...

 

 

It is not just the jet-engines that leave these vapour contrail lines in the sky, even old propeller engines did the same.

In this World War 2 film you can see the same thing in B-17 bombers....

[AnarKissed 278]

Chemtrails? Seriously Lana?

I've been wondering about L.D.R.'s use of the term "chemtrail" for some time now. In my opinion, she is specifically and deliberately using this term. [The only other, possible, reference to this subject in L.D.R.'s work that I am aware of is in the 3-Part NFR music video, where trails appear in the sky during Part 2 of the video.] What, if anything, is L.D.R. trying to tell us by referencing such a controversial subject? Is she an adherent of absurd conspiracy stories? Has she discovered, or have access to, reliable science-based information regarding this subject? Or is Lana merely being the same vivid story-teller that we all know and love?

[evilentity 13,343]

Is she an adherent of absurd conspiracy stories?

Yes. Or at least she has been.

[Rorman Nockwell 56,701]

Has anyone else noticed how pretty much every single poem contains lines about flowers and plants 'n' shit?

 

Her botanist era

[maxthehitman 1,729]

I've been wondering about L.D.R.'s use of the term "chemtrail" for some time now. In my opinion, she is specifically and deliberately using this term. [The only other, possible, reference to this subject in L.D.R.'s work that I am aware of is in the 3-Part NFR music video, where trails appear in the sky during Part 2 of the video.] What, if anything, is L.D.R. trying to tell us by referencing such a controversial subject? Is she an adherent of absurd conspiracy stories? Has she discovered, or have access to, reliable science-based information regarding this subject? Or is Lana merely being the same vivid story-teller that we all know and love?

 

 

I believe she is just writing (or singing) about what is happening with the general public at the moment. 

It does not mean that the writer/artist is actually a believer of such things.   

For example, if I was to write a book about "Demons and Witchcraft", it does not mean I am a follower of such crafts or worship the dark-one.

 

Writers and poetry writers need to dig in into the human mind and psychology of what is happening at the moment. Trends.

They need a theme to start writing about.   To pick out a particular word and write that "word" , which people can understand, because culture

at the moment understands what this "word" means.

 

Stuff like "Urban legends"

The world at the moment, for the past couple of years , with internet going wild with bizarre stories and videos, there have been a huge amount of

conspiracy theories and crazy stories.    

Stuff you would not think of 10 to 20 years ago.  The theory of "chemtrails" is just one of them. If it was so deadly to humans, they

would have stopped flying jets years ago.   

for example, If we both were living in 1985-1995 era and you would ask me about Chemtrails, I would not know what you

were talking about, I probably think you were a little crazy... and I am very well aware of many books and stuff dealing with conspiracy theories tales,

UFOs and other world mysteries. I have been reading about such stuff since I was a kid, it is interesting stuff to talk about at a dinner table with

friends, but I dont take the stories to heart.  You have to keep yourself from going "insane".

A story-teller writer (or poetry writer) will always dig into the human mind and write about what is happening with culture at the moment.

If you read some books written back in the 1950s or 1960s, they had a totally diferent view towards life and the world around them. Their

culture (and underground culture) was totally diferent from ours now.   

Read Jack Kerouack (On the Road 1957 and his other poetry),  crazy-cool writers like William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg,

Douglas Coupland (Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture 1991). Read some Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Arthur C. Clarke,

Bob Dylan, Ernest Hemingway, H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, Stephen King. 

I am sure Lana Del Rey is also an avid reader of such other writers and feeds a little off of their writing style too.

 

She is probably reading this post.

[ChicaCherryCola 1,393]

 

at the end of the Lime and 10th street down the road that’s green

 

She changed this bit to "at the end of Rose and Richeley's (?), down the street that's green"

[MargaretThatcher 1,331]

Chemtrails!!!

[Hallo Heaven 1,119]

Omg I can't wait to listen to this. I love Georgia O'Keeffe 

[MargaretThatcher 1,331]

Omg I can't wait to listen to this. I love Georgia O'Keeffe 

I’ve been wanting to see her museum in New Mexico!

[ilovetati 15,298]

Chemtrails? Seriously Lana?

 

IfOnlyYouKnew.mp3

[ShadesOfFool 20,126]

Chemtrails? Seriously Lana?

this aged well

[American Whore 51,311]

that Georgia O’Keeffe reference and also chemtrails here wow

[Hallo Heaven 1,119]

Wow, I totally loved the rhythm and the crazy rhyming here... so hypnotic it feels as if she was praying. The instrumentals are flawless too. 

[Trash Magic 28,368]

Georgia O'Keeffe namecheck adds weight to my theory about her being a springboard of inspiration for The Next Best American Record
 

Has anyone ever brought this up? Whilst I was reading Joan Didion's White Album, a quote from Georgia O'Keeffe instantly struck me as being the potential inspiration for this song.
 
"As I was working I thought of the city men I had been seeing in the East. They talked so often of writing the Great American Novel - the Great American Play - The Great American Poetry."
 
https://uk.phaidon.c...riotic-palette/

 

[AnarKissed 278]

https://archive.org/details/ChemtrailsManualChemistry131ManualUSAFAcademyFall1990_201810/page/n200/mode/2up

 

Quote: "The "Chemtrails Manual" is an Air Force Academy chemistry manual published by the Department of Defense for 1990 Air Force cadet training. The word "chemtrails" became a popular name applied to aircraft contrails that appeared unnatural."

[PARADIXO 32,940]

This one reminds me of this painting <3

 

[past the bushes 30,936]

[ep11 129]

Quote

love is rising

No resisting

cheeks are flushing

Now you’re living

 

 Beautiful.