Recurring Lyrical Themes and Words

[VegasBaby 895]

DOPE

 

 

american: "be young, be dope, be proud"

without you: "boy, you're so dope"

spot lite de-lite: "fly body dope in the face"

 

 

+ gods & monsters: "dope, shoot it up"

 

Alcohol

video games - "open up a beer, say get over here"

off to the races - "off the races, cases of bacardi chasers", "perfume, cognac, lilac, fumes"

this is what makes us girls - "pabst blue ribbon on ice", "drinking cherry schanpps in the velvet night"

motel 6 - "motel 6, slow gin fiz"

noir - "miss parlor-tricks, sips of the bacardi (?)"

kinda outta luck - "diamonds on my wrist, whiskey on my tongue"

dum dum - "from the store, we'll make margaritas, you wanna take a shot?"

 

Places

axl rose husband - "florida keys are calling"

 

 

 

She's the queen of:

 

• New York (Us Against The World)
• Coney Island (Off To The Races, Carmen)
• The Gas Station (A.K.A.)
• Disaster 
• The Stage (Hit & Run)

Did I miss any?

 

Alchemy (Heavy Hitter)

 

oh yeah and New Jersey Dance Queen (HDB) & Calendar pin-up queen (Marilyn Monroe) if that counts, beauty queen in Aberdeen (Brite Lites)

"I'm your little queen" - Axl Rose Husband

 

[Trinity 1,224]

Mascara

National Anthem: So put on mascara and your party dress

DICWB: Miss America with the blue mascara on

Carmen: Mascara runnin' down her little Bambi eyes

Pin Up Galore: Here's to the girl with the blue mascara

 

Lipstick

Carmen: Put your red dress on, put your lipstick on

DICWB: I wear my red lipstick, got my makeup up

 

Cinnamon

Radio: Now my life is sweet like cinnamon

Summer of Sam: Baby, I'm a cinnamon girl

[Noir 17]

Alcohol

video games - "open up a beer, say get over here"

off to the races - "off the races, cases of bacardi chasers", "perfume, cognac, lilac, fumes"

this is what makes us girls - "pabst blue ribbon on ice", "drinking cherry schanpps in the velvet night"

motel 6 - "motel 6, slow gin fiz"

noir - "miss parlor-tricks, sips of the bacardi (?)"

kinda outta luck - "diamonds on my wrist, whiskey on my tongue"

dum dum - "from the store, we'll make margaritas, you wanna take a shot?"

 

Damn You - "Flowers in my hair and your breath smelled like whiskey"

Elvis - "Champagne in the air"

 

She also sings a lot about "drinking" without mentioning specific beverages.

[Trinity 1,224]

Damn You - "Flowers in my hair and your breath smelled like whiskey"

Elvis - "Champagne in the air"

 

She also sings a lot about "drinking" without mentioning specific beverages.

Yeah, I mean, she even has a song called Get Drunk lol

[Paraiso 158]

 

Soft Drinks

Cola: "My pussy tastes like Pepsi cola"

Serial Killer: "You can see me drinking cherry Coke"

Diet Mountain Dew: "Diet Mountain Dew, baby, New York City"

[i know there's more, but I can't think of them right now]

 

she also drink diet coke (dangerous girl) and coca-cola (us against the world)

[cartoon eyes 2,540]

Miss America:

 

Mermaid Motel: And you salute me, Miss America

 

Driving In Cars: Miss America, with the blue mascara on

 

 

Trailer / Trailer Parks

 

 

Yayo: From this dark trailer park life now

 

Backfire: In our trailer park for two

 

Boarding School: Cheap trailer trash

 

Back to tha Basics: Trailer park love

 

The Man I Love: All that's real to me is trailer parks and beaches

 

Trash Magic: Sweet trailer life

[Trash Magic 28,370]

I dont like the thread title, something like

 

Recurring lyrical themes

 

would be more fitting???

Miss America:

Mermaid Motel: And you salute me, Miss America

Driving In Cars: Miss America, with the blue mascara on


I'm sure there's more ahaha

I can be your MS. USA - heavy hitter

[pinkfloralhaze 99]

Seven Eleven

Diet Mountain Dew: Baby's stopping at seven eleven

Motel 6: Maybe we can go down to seven eleven

[Stormriver 397]

Hey i love things like this

 

Roller coaster

 

Last Girl on Earth: "I own all of Mexico and I got my own roller coaster"

Diet Mountain Dew: "Maybe I like this roller coaster, maybe it keeps me high"

Butterflies Part 2: "Puts them on a roller coaster

Hundred Dollar Bill: "J is a romantic roller coaster"

 

Late at night (???)

 

Last Girl on Earth: "I stay up late at night try not to think about it"

Bel Air: "Palm trees in the light, I can see late at night"

Driving in Cars with Boys: "Come home late at night, my baby pick me up"

 

Hurricane

 

Playing Dangerous: "I'm in love in a hurricane"

Noir: "She crazy, like, in every single way, like a hurricane you gotta get out of her way"

[BLOODSHOT 3,029]

I think she's said "pale moonlight" a lot? I can only think of two songs that have that phrase though.

[Amadeus 11,334]

I think she's said "pale moonlight" a lot? I can only think of two songs that have that phrase though.

 

Summertime Sadness:

Dancing in the dark in the pale moonlight

Body Electric:

Dancing and grinding in the pale moonlight.

or

drop it like it's hot in the pale moonlight.

[Sitar 22,210]

I'll take the enormous task of doing the vehicles:

 

- Bugatti Veyron (National Anthem)

- Cadillac (Jump, 1949, Back to tha Basics)

- Chariot (Last Girl on Earth )

- Cherry red car (Big Bad Wolf)

- Chevrolet (On Our Way, Every Man Has His Wish, Bel Air ["Bel Air", although it may just be the city], Hundred Dollar Bill ["Chevy Nova"])

- Cop car (Playing Dangerous)

- Corvette (You Can Be the Boss)

- Fast Car (Video Games, Afraid)

- Lamborghini (Heavy Hitter, Hit & Run)

- Mercedes (Driving in Cars WIth Boys, Children of the Bad Revolution)

- Motorcycle (Yayo)

- Plane (Aviation ["fighter jets"], Take Me to Paris? )

- Pontiac (Diet MTN Dew, Motel 6, Axl Rose Husband, 1949)

- Truck (Kinda Outta Luck, Motel 6, ["flat-bed truck"], Driving in Cars With Boys ["pickup truck"], Raise Me Up ["pickup truck"])

[Madrigal 2,616]

I dont like the thread title, something like

 

Recurring lyrical themes

 

would be more fitting???

I would like this, but I can't from my iPod.

How do you like the new title?

[Sitar 22,210]

I would like this, but I can't from my iPod.

How do you like the new title?

 

Let's just keep expanding it imo

[erink4te 81]

US states

 

Alabama - 1949

Florida - Elvis

Nevada - Yayo

New Jersey - Pin Up! Galore

New York - Us Against The World + others

Oklahoma - Out With A Bang

Utah - Queen Of The Gas Station

Vermont - Elvis

 

also Mississippi South in Raise me Up

 

Damn You - "Flowers in my hair and your breath smelled like whiskey"[/size]

Elvis - "Champagne in the air"[/size]

 

She also sings a lot about "drinking" without mentioning specific beverages.

You Can Be The Boss? Malt liquor on your breath my myyyy

[dietpepsicola 77]

Tattoos

 

I like the snake on your tattoo, I like the ivy and the ink blue (Yayo)

Does she know I'm tattooed onto your heart? (She's Not Me)

Tattoos they were glistening (You & Me)

 

Is it your tattoos or golden grill that makes me feel this way? (Queen of Disaster)

[Trinity 1,224]

Soft Drinks (updated)

Cola: "My pussy tastes like Pepsi cola"

Serial Killer: "You can see me drinking cherry Coke"

Diet Mountain Dew: "Diet Mountain Dew, baby, New York City"

Boarding School: "I'm in the back doing crack drinking (something) Pepsi"

Motel 6: "Baby, you can buy me Diet Mountain Dew, and we'll get right down to it, me and you"

Ooh Baby: "Cause I'm drinking Diet Coke a lot, sucking on my lollipops"

Dangerous Girl: "Sipping on my diet coke, singing in the trailer park"

Us Against the World: "If you want a cola, I can make it colder"

 

Stars

Lucky Ones: "Every now and then the stars align"

Summertime Sadness: "I think I'll miss you forever, like the stars miss the sun in the morning sky"

Ride: "I'm tired of driving until I see stars in my eyes"

Axl Rose Husband/White Pontiac Heaven: "Star spangled danger"

Blue Velvet: "Softer than satin was the light from the stars" (It's not her song, but I figured it still counts)

[shelaughslikegod 79]

I think Lana is very patriotic in some of her lyrics.

[ExoticFlower 892]

Cosmetics

 

Mascara - In a LOT of songs.

Cherry Balm - Prom song gone wrong

 

Eh. More, but my brain is empty.

[IconicSoul 196]

I was sitting and translating all of her songs one day (to Greek) and I was so bored to translate some lyrics again and again. The worst part was the America's sweetheart and the word 'baby' and 'boy'...lyrically