LanaBoards Writing a Song for Lana Project

[lili 3,178]

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HOW IT STARTED

 

@BlueINK posted a status update saying "It's boring here. Somebody do something." I'm not linking the status update right now because we spammed that page enough with notifications (sorry about that ). Will do that later for historical purposes when this project comes together, though  In the comments, we imagined what we could come up with if we tried to write a Lana song(s) ourselves. Due to the stressful nature of anticipating the new album, we thought this could be entertaining. Anyone is welcome to participate, offer feedback and have fun with it!

 

THE TEAM (FOR NOW)

 

Producers/ Songwriters:

The Incomparable:

@plastiscguy,

@Glitter Boy

@PatentLeatherDoOver 

@Summerorcold

 

Singers:

The Otherworldy:

@Clampigirl,

@takeitdoen (we'd very much like you to join!)

@KingsMotelPart2 expressed an interest to do background vocals! 

 

Lyrics Team:

The Unbeatable:

@The Siren

@Nova Times

@Surf Noir

@palemoonbaby

@salvatore (invited!)

@lili

@TRENCH

@cherrytropico

@Rorman Nockwell (validating our efforts)

@the ocean

 

Visual Team:

The Show-Stopping:

@BlueINK ----- expressed to be more on the ideas for visuals part, so waiting for the help of all you digital artists out there!

@the ocean

@Wait For Life

@lanadelrey, @Trash Magic ----- (invited!)

@annedauphine ----- lyric video

@KingsMotelPart2 — video editor (remember there can be more than one!)

Back-up Dancer:

The Unfathomable:

@prettywhenimhigh 

 

SUGGESTED LYRICS /LYRICAL THEMES/ MENTIONS:

 

POSSIBLE LYRICAL THEMES: 

 

Spoiler

By @Clampigirl:

 

Classic Lana themes:

 

• Blue everything
• Dresses: white, red, black
• Summerrrrr
• or the end of summerrrrr
• Introspective thoughts on a perfectly ordinary day
• Lana being smarter than the dude she's dating but he doesn't know she has him figured out
• Sad love

 

By @PatentLeatherDoOver:

 

• Religious parallels
• Poet/poetry reference 
• Ultra-specific location for the setting lol
• Fire/the sun/stars/space
• Americana seen through a dark lens 
• Apocalyptic undertones 
• Existential/reflective themes 

 

 

SUGGESTED LYRICS:

 

Spoiler

Do you remember these times when we had heaven on earth

We met in this old city two winters ago

Kissing on the background with cars driving in slow-motion

Keeping my hands in your jacket pockets

                                                         -- @palemoonbaby

 

I'm goddamn melancholic, goddamn dreamer

 

Pink flamingos are bathing in aquamarine waves

Just like we jumped in old-fashioned swimsuits

That 1972 Whisky on my tongue to forget

 

I could give you my life and breathe

even we didn't know each other very well

I miss you so much that I hate it

 

I've always fallen in love in wrong time and place

I forgave people who drowned me down

I was your medicine, you were deadly poison

Cocaine fields and the sea of vodka weren't that intoxicating

 

Why do i have to go through everything so fucking emotional

Maybe I'm judging myself too brutal

Maybe I'm too sadistic and masochist

Finding alibi and explanation why is no other way

                                                              ---- @palemoonbaby

 

i think i've seen my baby gone away, tired driveway, it's comin back to me
everytime he goes, he don't tell me, where he's goin for how long, and if he'll stay 

but i know (i know *backing vocals*) he's the one for me 
i trace the frame, of his photo on my heart shaped locket that he gave me 

is it wrong that I keep (hmmmm *backing vocals*) here 
cus it's been falling away, and I, cant. take, it. 

chorus: 
i do my best, dowhatican 
nothing ever changes, is there a reason? 

he told me that, but I know 
that it's all just memory, there's nothing here 

something something something. 

                                           --- @Nova Times

 

i'll never let this love die

wherever we go

way back at the mobile home

or the chateau marmont

                                        ---- @Surf Noir

 

couldn't leave the city, it's wrapped around my wrists like ivy

 

let's drive off in your white car, we could leave this little town

i'll wear roses in my hair, so you'll know i'm always down

                                        --- @Surf Noir

 

spirits whispering in my ear

feeling afraid at the chateau

but not him, he's a star

even if it's all from a-far

                                     --- @Surf Noir (on the suggestion of @Venice Peach to include a variation of the iconic Mary (Scared Of Me) lyrics)

 

 

i said, i love your crazy ways, i miss your gold-chain

 

he said, i love topanga, i miss your melancholia

                                                   — @Surf Noir

 

The smoke the candles emit

when I light them in the night

reminds me of your cigarettes,

the ones you used to inhale,

like my love for you inhaled my being

 

Fifteen years have passed

And New York is a fading memory,

where my county line crossings in LA

overtake the anarchies of yesterdays'
                                         — @TRENCH

Fingertips on my phone like tap-t-t-tap
Suggested words to take you back

                                                 -- @Clampigirl

 

blue eyes, as cold as ice

you've got me burning up inside

although your soul was never warm

you've set my heart on fire

 

it's you, who i desire, all thoughout the night

so i'll light a match, and whisper your name

we could set this ocean a-blaze

let's do it by the blue flames. 
                                      — @cherrytropico & @Surf Noir

                                   

 

you said i was wild

but you don’t know how i used to be

i was a girl who never smiled

hoping one day i’d be happy 

                                        — @cherrytropico

 

anything you'd like me to believe

i'll take it all, with every sound

and anything you'd like me to dream

it'll make it's way out into the silence

-

when you breathe in me, you'll take in my soul

and then you'll see, there's nothing wrong

and there's nothing dead inside" — @lili& @Surf Noir

 

(fade in: clock ticking)

There's nothing left
In this dying world
For me to live my life
So I just take what I can
To save myself from this hell
This is a dull world full of war and fear

We are drained of our colours
Like we are robotic animals
With no feelings for ourselves or others
We get pulled into things we hate
With magnets like we have motivation
But I push away and walk the other way
Towards the life I want to live
I want to live my life
I'm just barely surviving
I’d rather be living it

There's nothing left for us here
This life is our nightmare
We don't want to be near
This kingdom of fear
But there is no choice
We do what we are told
Defiance would be suicide
But I take the chance

(clock stops ticking)
I'm coming in like a Mephistopheles
Make them wish they didn't do me wrong
I planted my seed
I will see the harvest

(Alarm clock rings; then fades into Heavy drums; abrupt end)
(Fade out: Sirens)  -- @The Siren 

 

There's so much I want to say
But there's less time than I thought I had
All this time I felt hurt
Like you didn't want me
I felt so broken
Because of you
I can't let it go

Not a day goes by
That I'm not reminded of you
Every day I long to be by your side
Each night I go to bed I remember
Every happy moment we've had
But every morning I wake up
I'm reminded that you're not in my life no more

If you'd come back to me
I'd forgive you for leaving
If you'd come back to me
I'd do anything to keep you from leaving
If you'd come back to me
It'd wash away the feelings
from when you left
And this broken season would
Be just another sad memory

You left me twice before
I didn't want you to leave again
Each time was a bullet to both of us
I promised you I'd never let you go
This time I'm never letting go

If you'd come back to me
I'd forgive you for leaving
If you'd come back to me
I'd do anything to keep you from leaving
If you'd come back to me
It'd wash away the feelings
from when you left
And this broken season would
Be just another sad memory

I have been with someone
This whole time we were apart
But they just remind me
That I'm not with you
You are the only one I've ever loved
The only way I'm ever to get over you
Is if you're dead and I join you
If you'd hang yourself
I'd use the same rope on me

If you'd come back to me
I'd forgive you for leaving
I'd do anything to keep you from leaving
I wish you'd come back to me
So I could wash away the feelings
from when you left
And this broken season will
Be just another sad memory

                                        -- @The Siren 

  

 

WORDS OR PHRASES SUGGESTED BE MENTIONED:

Spoiler

• trailer park -----  @Surf Noir
• fingertips ------ @Clampigirl
• candle in the wind ----- @bluechemtrails
• "i-phone" "i-pad" / any Apple devices ---- @Whore of Tropico

• a lyric about wanting to leave as well, it's something she's been singing about since LFL. 

  I want to leave, I'll probably stay another year (Heroin)
  I miss New York, and I miss the music (The greatest)
  I left Berkeley, out of city, out of mind // I left San Francisco (Dance till we die) --- @Clampigirl

• requests "the word "Gate" to be included in the piece, as a nod to Lanaboards and its many gates (ChickenGate, GlitterGate, CrazyGate, etc)" ---- @SoftwareUpgrade

 

 

SUGGESTED IDEAS FOR PRODUCTION:

 

Spoiler

• Trap beats, strings, guitar, drums ------   @blackestday89
• Desert surf rock song with jazz tunes ------ @Clampigirl
• A born to die/paradise sound since that's her most recognizable, anything atmospheric and luscious ------ @Surf Noir
• If we opt for a BB/COCC sound, we'd have a song that is heavily piano (and basically the same 4 chords throughout) and the lyricism is different than the rest of her catalogue, a wordy, more poetry-ish style ---- one of our producers @plastiscguy
• Starting things off with an ambient wave that creeps up on you and then have some kind of backing vocals to blend and flow into the first verse --- @Nova Times
• idea for sound: dreamy, dark indie electro-touched song with strings, violins:

           intro: angelic, with strings

           1st verse, pre-chorus: dreamy, spacey and really atmospheric

           1st chorus: the same but with strings and ends with beat slowly starting

            2nd verse, pre-chorus: electro beat entered, interesting production, still dreamy but more intense and kinda dark

           2nd chorus: kinda anthemic, more energy but still we crying, drums showing up, vocal layers

           bridge and last chorus: big climax, baroque strong orchestra, nervous strings, breathtaking

           outro: same as intro

                             — @palemoonbaby

 

 

People who expressed interest, offered suggestions and very much welcome to join on board on whichever team they like and or comment on what we're doing during the whole process:

@Deadly Nightshade, @prettywhenimhigh, @KingsMotelPart2, @blackestday89, @VioletBunny, @Venice Peach, @Whore of Tropico,

@Gravitate, @SoftwareUpgrade

 

I'm sorry if I forgot to mention anyone's contribution, please do let me know if that is the case! This is a serious thing we want to do but without any pressure and if we don't like it at the end, we will at least have created a fun memory together and can laugh it off! 

[Glitter Boy 16,576]

ahhhh can't wait to get back home so i can try some sounds for this

[Beautiful Loser 49,279]

Subscribing!

[lili 3,178]

Edited the original post! Let me know if there's anything missing 

[Deadly Nightshade 12,879]

This sounds so exciting 

[blackestday x tough 5,354]

Trap beats strings guitar drums

 

 

[Beautiful Loser 49,279]

I just found this website which lets you know what bpm (beats per minute) each album and song has on average. Maybe it can be helpful.  https://getsongbpm.com/album/norman-fucking-rockwellexclamation/E2QDY

[lili 3,178]

1 minute ago, Clampigirl said:

I just found this website which lets you know what bpm (beats per minute) each album and song has on average. Maybe it can be helpful.  https://getsongbpm.com/album/norman-fucking-rockwellexclamation/E2QDY

Awesome!

[The Stargirl Pinky 71,937]

@lili Omg you know Dan Heath??? Lili had LIB before the rest of us confirmed

[Beautiful Loser 49,279]

Will we finally get the desert surf rock song with jazz tunes we’ve always wanted? Stay tuned to find out!

[lili 3,178]

1 minute ago, The Stargirl Pinky said:

@lili Omg you know Dan Heath??? Lili had LIB before the rest of us confirmed

Hahaha I think anyone can know Dan Heath if they want to , he's pretty laid back 

[Get Drunk 17,983]

Obsessed with this concept omg

[Make me your Dream Life 88,344]

I can help w writing/revising lyrics if anything! 

[lili 3,178]

Just now, Nova Times said:

I can help w writing/revising lyrics if anything! 

Great, lyrics team is you and me for now! Appreciate if others would like to participate!

[plastiscguy 63,439]

i love this!

[Make me your Dream Life 88,344]

3 minutes ago, lili said:

Great, lyrics team is you and me for now! Appreciate if others would like to participate!

I admit i can get busy but if u have the subject etc. we can go from there

[lili 3,178]

3 minutes ago, Nova Times said:

I admit i can get busy but if u have the subject etc. we can go from there

Okay, with themes suggested in the original post, could you guys add more ideas so I can pile them in one place and we can have a lyrical theme vote? 

[bluechemtrails 27,004]

51 minutes ago, lili said:

Classic Lana themes:

• Blue everything
• Dresses: white, red, black
• Summerrrrr
• or the end of summerrrrr
• Introspective thoughts on a perfectly ordinary day
• Lana being smarter than the dude she's dating but he doesn't know she has him figured out
• Sad love

 

Don't forget the candle in the wind. There's always a candle in the wind somewhere.

 

[Beautiful Loser 49,279]

Just now, bluechemtrails said:

Don't forget the candle in the wind. There's always a candle in the wind somewhere.

 

And the fingertips. 

[lili 3,178]

Just now, bluechemtrails said:

Don't forget the candle in the wind. There's always a candle in the wind somewhere.

 

Hahaha, exactly!