Wildflower Wildfire

[yayoop 4,601]

“Hot fire, hot weather, hawt coffee, I’m better with YEWH” hits so hard

[DCooper 36,914]

Hospital sand still on my feet is such a brilliant and evocative lyric. Truly haunting 

[daphnedinkley 13,475]

ON REPEAT TODAYYYYYY  so good

[bel air rose 11,630]

On 5/26/2021 at 8:50 PM, DCooper said:

Hospital sand still on my feet is such a brilliant and evocative lyric. Truly haunting 

omg I thought it was stand, its sand? can u explain what she means i’m dumb 

[DCooper 36,914]

1 hour ago, bel air rose said:

omg I thought it was stand, its sand? can u explain what she means i’m dumb 

 

It gives me this haunting image of her wandering the hospital halls barefoot, and then even after she's left she still feels that sand/dirt on her feet from the hospital floors, like she can't fully wash away that memory.

[daphnedinkley 13,475]

3 minutes ago, DCooper said:

 

It gives me this haunting image of her wandering the hospital halls barefoot, and then even after she's left she still feels that sand/dirt on her feet from the hospital floors, like she can't fully wash away that memory.

oooh yes! i took it more literally like she'd just been found wandering the beach (reminds me of The Ocean - "the ocean makes me cry" / "i'm in love with a dying man, i'm in love laying in the sand") and that's where she'd been found before being rushed to the hospital, although i like your interpretation better!

 

though if we were to take the literal interpretation and do some hashtag Lanalysis, maybe a lot of things link back to this day for her? she's clearly a woman predisposed to mental health issues or depression, but maybe a breaking point for her was the day that she describes in Kill Kill / The Ocean, when she finds out she's gonna lose her lover and that she's "in love with a dying man", so she's laid in the sand until - as she describes in Wildflower Wildfire - she's taken into the hospital, sand still on her feet. 

[DCooper 36,914]

2 minutes ago, daphnedinkley said:

oooh yes! i took it more literally like she'd just been found wandering the beach (reminds me of The Ocean - "the ocean makes me cry" / "i'm in love with a dying man, i'm in love laying in the sand") and that's where she'd been found before being rushed to the hospital, although i like your interpretation better!

 

though if we were to take the literal interpretation and do some hashtag Lanalysis, maybe a lot of things link back to this day for her? she's clearly a woman predisposed to mental health issues or depression, but maybe a breaking point for her was the day that she describes in Kill Kill / The Ocean, when she finds out she's gonna lose her lover and that she's "in love with a dying man", so she's laid in the sand until - as she describes in Wildflower Wildfire - she's taken into the hospital, sand still on her feet. 

 

I love yours too! Lana's writing is so layered and often has multiple interpretations that work so well together 

[lamms 11,605]

23 minutes ago, daphnedinkley said:

oooh yes! i took it more literally like she'd just been found wandering the beach (reminds me of The Ocean - "the ocean makes me cry" / "i'm in love with a dying man, i'm in love laying in the sand") and that's where she'd been found before being rushed to the hospital, although i like your interpretation better!

 

though if we were to take the literal interpretation and do some hashtag Lanalysis, maybe a lot of things link back to this day for her? she's clearly a woman predisposed to mental health issues or depression, but maybe a breaking point for her was the day that she describes in Kill Kill / The Ocean, when she finds out she's gonna lose her lover and that she's "in love with a dying man", so she's laid in the sand until - as she describes in Wildflower Wildfire - she's taken into the hospital, sand still on her feet. 

Wow, that’s actually a great interpretation and point of view. It never occurred to me, that you could possibly link it all the way back to AKA. Really makes you wonder, if her fixation on beaches has also to do with that or if it’s just the vastness of the ocean and soothing feeling you experience at the beach. God, I love these singles and their weird mystery: She‘s so open and yet, I find myself with more questions

[daphnedinkley 13,475]

27 minutes ago, lamms said:

Wow, that’s actually a great interpretation and point of view. It never occurred to me, that you could possibly link it all the way back to AKA. Really makes you wonder, if her fixation on beaches has also to do with that or if it’s just the vastness of the ocean and soothing feeling you experience at the beach. God, I love these singles and their weird mystery: She‘s so open and yet, I find myself with more questions

she's managed to do the impossible - seemingly telling us everything while also telling us kinda nothing! she's maintained this mystery but also said things to the entire world that you wouldn't even catch yourself saying to your besties at a dinner party. i think lana's greatest skill is this kind of self-mythologising; she somehow has a whole canon of things (K, double homicide, her parents, boarding school, drugs, alcohol, cult leaders) we're all so intrigued by 

[bel air rose 11,630]

7 hours ago, DCooper said:

 

It gives me this haunting image of her wandering the hospital halls barefoot, and then even after she's left she still feels that sand/dirt on her feet from the hospital floors, like she can't fully wash away that memory.

omfg. thank u for this 

[Let the Light In 18,642]

"I promised you like a million tomorrows

Here’s the deal

What I can promise is all lied down

Like a bed of wildflowers

And always make the sheets smell like gardenias

Wild at your feet

And I

Nourish you hazily baby, I"

 

Is she talking to her future child in this song like she's saying that she will not be like her mother to them?

[Venice Jesus Whore 4,471]

Is this Lana’s hardest to pronounce and to remember song title, or am I just dumb? 

[Summerain 1,269]

44 minutes ago, Urbanney said:

Is this Lana’s hardest to pronounce and to remember song title, or am I just dumb? 

agree

[Bonita 12,531]

 

[Cherry Blossom 21,530]

reading the last page of the thread really gave me a new love for this song. i love how lana has created a world, a painting, a universe, a puzzle of her life that she expands on in every song, all while maintaining a sense of mystery. every song has its purpose. what a fucking legend

[prettywhenimhigh 49,329]

iconic 

[Cherry Blossom 21,530]

‘i promised you like a million tomorrows’….’but tomorrow never came’ 

[americangothic 1,690]

How do you all interpret the metaphor/contrast of a 'wildflower' and a 'wildfire' besides the phonetic rhyme scheme? Just curious

[American Whore 51,313]

6 minutes ago, americangothic said:

How do you all interpret the metaphor/contrast of a 'wildflower' and a 'wildfire' besides the phonetic rhyme scheme? Just curious

 

Wildflowers, plants, grass can all burn. So she's saying she won't catch flame and become the fire that she knows the world can be and is burning at the same time. Basically in other words "I'm not gonna burn you like others have done me" is what she's saying, but she'll be like a wildflower, she'll basically be wild and free while staying pretty and sweet and fragrant, like a wildflower. Honestly i think the lyrics fit better on NFR, with the cover since Cali was burning then. "I wouldn't know what hot fire was" and "I wouldn't know how cruel the world was" plays into those lyrics too, kind of giving the explanation for those lines. Especially when she talks about her mom, which is a sort of burned bridge, which her dad also burned her too, meaning hurt her because he wouldn't "step in when his wife would rage at me". The wildflower part makes sense because she says "I'll be like gardenias wild at your feet" and "I ended up awkward but sweet" which flowers can be fragrant and smell kind of sweet

[Dark Angel 202,174]

HOT FIRE

HOT WEATHER

HOT COFFEE

I'M BETTER