Favourite Lana Lyrics

[Carmen 76]

"Not even they can stop me now"

[Lana Del Rey 753]

'In the name of higher consciousness, I let the best man I knew go' - Pawn Shop Blues

[Mileena 2,694]

'In the name of higher consciousness, I let the best man I knew go' - Pawn Shop Blues

 

One of my favourites too.

[Your Girl Lana 549]

My favourite lyrics are:

I

" I can talk what i want, how i wanna

I can talk what i want, how i wanna

I don't have to talk taste for you, mama"

" Carmen, Carmen

Staying up till morning

Only 17, but she walks the streets so mean

It's alarming truly

How disarming you can be

Eatin' soft ice cream

Coney Island queen"

[National Anthem 9,906]

"Every now and then, the stars align

Boy and girl meet by the great design

Could it be that you and me are the lucky ones?"

 

❤Such cute lyrics!

[Hello Heaven 1,578]

'Hello heaven, you are a tunnel lined with yellow lights on a dark night'.

 

I love that line but honestly, Lana's just such a fabulous songwriter. She's never let me down.

[shelaughslikegod 79]

They say I'm wastin' time they say that I'm no good.

Summer of my life, not doing what I should.

Call me poison ivy 'cause I'm far from good,

Pretty from afar like a dark star.

 

They say I'm dangerous, they think I'm really bad.

I'm just making up for what I never had.

Go out every night whenever I feel sad.

Oh this drive-by love, got me crazy like a drug.

 

I wear my red lipstick, got my make up on,

Stumble into trouble, siren with a sad song.

They all got girlfriends, but I'm the one that they want:

Miss America with the blue mascara on.

 

I've spent my whole life driving in cars with boys,

Riding 'round town drinking in the white noise.

Used to talk about where we'd be and where we'd go.

Now we know, baby, now we know.

Spent my whole life wasted in bars with boys.

Playin' rock 'n' roll dancing in the loud noise.

Used to talk about where we'd be and where we'd go.

Now we know, baby, now we know.

 

Mommy's Mercedes or Billy's pick up truck?

Come home late at night and baby picks me up.

Tell him "Just drive on and d-don't ever stop.

Don't take me home again, take me to a new land."

 

I wear my red lipstick, grab my coat and gun.

Wonder if this is it, it's darkest before dawn.

Sometimes I wanna give in, but I just have to go on.

Miss America. Now I'm gone, baby, gone.

 

I've spent my whole life driving in cars with boys,

Riding 'round town drinking in the white noise.

Used to talk about where we'd be and where we'd go.

Now we know, baby, now we know.

Spent my whole life wasted in bars with boys

Playing rock 'n' roll dancing in the loud noise.

Used to talk about where we'd be and where we'd go.

Now we know, baby, now we know.

 

I was born to live fast, die young,

Leave a beautiful corpse, live my life on the run.

Got my cash and my Louis Vuitton,

Diamonds, and guns.

Girls just wanna, just wanna have fun.

 

I've spent my whole life driving in cars with boys,

Ridin' 'round town drinking in the white noise.

Used to talk about where we'd be and where we'd go.

 

I've spent my whole life driving in cars with boys,

Ridin' 'round town drinking in the white noise.

Used to talk about where we'd be and where we'd go.

Now we know, baby, now we know.

Spent my whole life wasted in bars with boys

Playing rock 'n' roll dancing in the loud noise.

Used to talk about where we'd be and where we'd go.

Now we know, baby, now we know.

[Hello Heaven 1,578]

'It's nice to love and be loved but I'd rather know what God knows'

[Pocket Gay 749]

"My pussy taste like Pepsi-Cola, my eyes are wide like Cherry Pies. I gots a taste for men who are older, It's always been so it's no surprise."

- Lana Del Rey, Cola.

:badbitch:

[elliesioux 92]

I had a look and surprisingly I couldn't find a thread for this, but if one does exists then feel free to merge or whatever! 

 

Lana's incredible ability as a songwriter is one of the most celebrated things about her, so let's share our favourite Lana lyrics here! 

 

What are your favourites and why? I could go on forever with my favourites, but to name a few...

 

"Hello heaven, you are a tunnel lined with yellow lights on a dark night" - from 'Yayo'. It's just such a gorgeous line. It really reflects the feeling of finding someone who's almost like a savoir or an angel or something that's come along to light up your dark path, I love it.

 

"It only take two hours to Nevada, I wear your sparkle, you call me your mama" - 'Yayo' again. Fcking beautiful song 

"Nothing scares me anymore" - from 'Summertime Sadness'. I know it's simple, but these four words sum up the entire feel of the song for me. In my opinion, this line is enough to capture the spirit of Summer and that feeling of being free, happy and most of all, invincible.

 

"I'm in love with a dying man" - from 'Kill Kill'. What I love about this line is that you could take it to mean so many different things and interpret it in so many different ways. I have my own personal interpretation of it that I can relate to, but I'm sure y'all don't wanna know 

 

"I didn't know it would come to this, but that's what happens when you're on your own, and you're alright letting nice things go" - from 'Pawn Shop Blues'. It's just so damn true and something I can relate to sometimes.

 

"Been trying hard not to get into trouble but I, I've got a war in my mind" - from 'Ride'. Don't we all have a war in our minds sometimes? 

 

"Roses, Bel Air, take me there" - from 'Bel Air'. I guess on paper it's not all that, but in the context of the song this line is like heaven. The way Lana describes Bel Air makes it sound like her personal heaven and I feel like we all have our own Bel Air, right? (IIIIIIIN WEST PHILADELPHIA BORN AND RAISED...) I just love it, it's so divine.

 

So what about you guys?

[IconicSoul 196]

"It's a love story for the new age"

[elliesioux 92]

"It's a love story for the new age"

 

omg I love that. It actually sums up a lot of her work tbh.

[Stormriver 397]

"Love is mean and love hurts" is my all time favourite lyric i think

 

Ugh and the way she delivers the line with like, venom and pain, oh god you can feel the angst like nothing else. 

 

(((Special mention to "sometimes I get lonely, millions can hold me now")))

[Pin Up Paradise 463]

''Now my life is sweet like cinnamon, like a fucking dream i'm living in'' From Radio Because it's a beautiful line. And shows how much Lana wanted fame and how much she thinks of it. It's her dream.

 

''Red, white, blues in the sky, summers in the air, and baby heavens in your eyes'' From National Anthem its how I felt in my last relationship.

 

''I pray your life is sweet, you fucker, damn you'' From Damn You well that's pretty obvious.

 

''You will never see my face, if you don't get me out of this place now baby, i'm not crazy. i'm leaving are you coming with me?'' From Prom Song (Gone Wrong) Because it's like she's being a crazy bitch, then saying ''But i'm not crazy'' and i love that. 

 

''You used to call yourself the don, and call me Queen Diana, you always made me blush, and say 'shut up are you bananas'.'' From Prom Song (Gone Wrong) the way she says the line is lovely and sums up the relationship she had with the man. her english teacher.

 

''If you wanna get high with me, i'm in the back doing crack drinking p-p-pepsi'' From Boarding School Because it shows how young she was when she was doing drugs. And the idea that doing drugs and drinking drinks like Pepsi was being an amazing rebel.

 

''Life is a velvet crowbar, hitting you over the head'' From Velvet Crowbar. Because it is. sometimes. 

 

''Educated in the language of 'doing it''' From Boarding School Because erm shes educated in sex 

 

''Death doesn't come with a warning'' From Velvet Crowbar

[Hundred Dollar Bill 21,809]

The way she delivers the lyrics or just the lyrics in general?? My answers would be a lot different if I had to go with one or the other. I'll do both, though.

 

 

Jimmy pulls up in his blue Chevy Nova, I have been dyin' for him to come over.

 

If you want a cola, I can make it colder.

 

Oh my heart, it breaks every step that I take,

But I'm hoping at the gates, they'll tell me that you're mine.

 

I feel so alone on the Friday nights, 

Can you make it feel like home if I tell you you're mine?

 

I was so confused as a little child, trying to take what I could get,

Scared that I couldn't find all the answers, honey.

 

That's where the beginning of the end begun,

Everybody knew that we had too much fun

We were skipping school and drinking on the job, with the boss.

 

They were the only friends I ever had.

 

I tried so hard to act nice like a lady,

You taught me that it was good to be crazy. ♥

 

They're disgusting, I'm delicious.   

 

Sometimes I get lonely, everybody told me no... 

 

In the name of higher consciousness, I let the best man I knew go

'Cause it's nice to love and be loved but it's better to know all you can know.

 

I can tell that you're the type to never trust a beauty queen,

But I was never voted for nothing in high school, never meaned anything to anybody.

 

Don't leave me now, don't say goodbye.

 

I drive fast, radio blares, have to touch myself to pretend you're there.

 

Please don't leave, it's all happening. 

 

I'll do what you like, I won't make a sound.

 

You know how I like that celebrity type, poor me.

 

I have a disco ball mind, lights flashing all the time, 

I have a disco ball mind. I wanna die, I wanna die.

 

[PinUpGaloreLana 1,399]

"Yo' good luck good luck good luck. May all the stars in the sky bow down to you. We're through." - Oof.

 

"But yo she crazy like in every single way, like a hurricaine, you gotta get out of your way!" - Angry screaming, love it.

 

"Keep them other girls at bay or i will blow them all away." - Gangsta bitch<3

 

"What'd God give me a plan for? He never helps me do it!" - That really rings out to me. Its true.

 

"If you cant stand the heat, then stay out of the fire." Reminds me to refrain from telling my teacher how i feel! I know it would cause a "fire" so to say, and i cant handle that lol.

 

"The flames are getting higher and so's my desire." They certainly are:(

 

I'm not very good at giving details on why i like these lyrics. Most are for personal reasons, as in they really mean something to me, and others are just because i like them.

Hard to put into words, i think.

[IconicSoul 196]

Ahhh also "My pussy taste like Pepsi Cola"

I mean I really love it when she sings it continuously in the end it's a very stupid but catchy phrase

 

tbh I was singing it yesterday and when my mother heard she asked me "what the fck are you singing?   you don't have a pussy"

 

xD

[FREEDOM 310]

"Wining and dining, drinking and driving, excessive buying, overdose and dyin', on our drugs and our love, and our dreams and our rage, blurring the lines between real and the fake"

 

THIS. The near rapping, i can't express how much i love the way the words fall out/melody/beat.

 

"We get crazy every Friday night, I drop it like it’s hot in the pale moonlight, grand Ole Opry, feelin' all right, Mary's swayin’ softly, to her heart's delight."

 

The way she says certain words like 'crazy' and 'Opry', they just hit me with so much emotion not the actual word just how they sound.

 

Tbh i don't care for lyrics specifically but more of how they sound with the melody/beat/how they fit, like how the actual word sounds when i'm listening to the music, not their meaning.

[Mileena 2,694]

"No one lives forever, but that's no reason to give up" 

 

"Baby stopping at 7Eleven, there in his white Pontiac heaven"

 

"Palm trees in black and white, last thing I saw before I died"

 

"I murder love in the night, watching them fall one by one they fight"

 

"Lets get out of this place 'cause you're starting to waste within this teenage wasteland"

 

"Lights, camera, acción. You know I can make it on my own"

 

"White Lincoln Continental, pick me up from my motel"

 

"Cheap trailer trash and everyone knows it, but she got a great ass and she knows how to show it"

 

"I'm Miss America, now I'm gone, baby gone"

 

"In the land of Gods and monsters, I was an angel looking to get fucked hard"

 

"I sing the Body Electric"

[Rosemary 7]

All my dreams and all the lights mean

Nothing if I cant have you