Kintsugi

[Southern GOTHIC 2,186]

this song is truly so beautiful 

[ultrabanisters 44,998]

one of my favourites on ob 

[WhiteHydrangea 4,216]

I don't know anyone left to know songs that I sing 

[lmdr 10,688]

[rural legend 2,144]

I don't think there has been a time that I listened to Kintsugi without crying. The part from 5:10 followed by 'then you're golden' breaks my heart every single time. This is the most heart-breaking yet hopeful song I have ever heard.

[Let the Light In 18,642]

Lana Del Rey’s great-uncle Dick was so dazed the night before he died that he accidentally grabbed the singer’s wrist and coughed into her hand. “I just cried,” she recalls in her soft, airy American twang.She was at his home at a vigil alongside 30 members of her extended family. “I shouldn’t have been the one crying,” she says. “The people around me were his children — I’m just this star who walked in.” Then suddenly everyone started singing the old folk song Froggy Went a-Courtin’ — once covered by Bob Dylan — in a 13-part harmony. “It was a pivotal moment because I realised that they could sing as well as I do, but I just happen to be the one who made it. That was the missing piece I needed. I felt part of a very wide network, a grain of sand on the beach.”

[HoneymoonSupremacy 61]

Can someone English-speaking explain the meaning of this cryptic line, please?

"I don't know anyone left to know songs that I sing". Left to know? Left=deceased?

[violettiaras 3,462]

2 minutes ago, HoneymoonSupremacy said:

Can someone English-speaking explain the meaning of this cryptic line, please?

"I don't know anyone left to know songs that I sing". Left to know? Left=deceased?

left= still around. no one she knows still knows rhe same songs

[That Venice Bitch 28,140]

1 minute ago, HoneymoonSupremacy said:

Can someone English-speaking explain the meaning of this cryptic line, please?

"I don't know anyone left to know songs that I sing". Left to know? Left=deceased?

The opposite!

 

I don’t know anyone left who knows the songs that I sing = I don’t know anybody who is still alive who knows the songs that I sing.

 

Like she’s shocked that people (her cousin, who is 14 years old) knows classic folk songs. She mentions the song ‘Froggie Came A-Courtin’. She’s surprised he, and everybody in her family, knows and is attached to classic folk songs like she is

[HoneymoonSupremacy 61]

3 minutes ago, That Venice Bitch said:

The opposite!

 

I don’t know anyone left who knows the songs that I sing = I don’t know anybody who is still alive who knows the songs that I sing.

 

Like she’s shocked that people (her cousin, who is 14 years old) knows classic folk songs. She mentions the song ‘Froggie Came A-Courtin’. She’s surprised he, and everybody in her family, knows and is attached to classic folk songs like she is

Oh many thanks! Your further explanation was what really made me get it. 😅 This song is golden.

[HoneymoonSupremacy 61]

7 minutes ago, violettiaras said:

left= still around. no one she knows still knows rhe same songs

Thank you too 💙

[longtimeman 8,917]

5 hours ago, That Venice Bitch said:

The opposite!

 

I don’t know anyone left who knows the songs that I sing = I don’t know anybody who is still alive who knows the songs that I sing.

 

Like she’s shocked that people (her cousin, who is 14 years old) knows classic folk songs. She mentions the song ‘Froggie Came A-Courtin’. She’s surprised he, and everybody in her family, knows and is attached to classic folk songs like she is

This is a great explanation. I also think there's a double meaning - the 'songs that she sings' also refer to her own songs, and she's thinking of the end of her own life ("... your days flash in front of you"), and she sees herself forgotten (see 'DYKTTATUOB'), and her own songs as obscure as the folk songs. (The 'just another folk song' also shows this double meaning - both the old songs her families are standing together singing, and also 'Kintsugi' itself).

[Bonita 12,531]

Think by the third of March I was cracked open...

[violettiaras 3,462]

i’m fr feeling cracked open today..

[shadesofblue 15,447]

Kintsugi is so underrated. The opening line:

 

There’s a certain point the body can’t come back from 

 

always destroys me, going through shit & trauma changes people 

 

[Stoned Mary in the Garden 6,786]

This song is really just beyond words. It’s the song that shows up in my dreams and that I wake up and immediately listen to. I’ve been listening to Lana for over a decade and no song she’s ever made has moved me or affected me quite as much as this one. It might be my favorite of all time 

[Let the Light In 18,642]

On 3/23/2023 at 11:41 PM, Elle said:

 

In the snow-capped mountains of the desert

 

 

Probably one of my favorite memories was listening to this song while looking at this view at Death Valley and shedding a tear  

 

[Lanaparadiserey 23,537]

If this song had clear production and wasn’t muffled it would be top 10 in her discography 

 

Actually all of Ocean Blvd would be in the top 50 if the production was clear

[Fuck Our Generation 755]

Every single time I listen to this song, when she's says "then you're golden" it's a whole experience. I think that this song is the top 5 of her best written song.

Personally I don't have a problem with the "blurry" production. It makes it sound familiar.