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Platinum and vale acrylics
Skim the paper for the critics
Baby's breath and Elvis lyrics
On the copper bar

Late in motel lounges singin'
Spotlight on the band is swingin'
Chateau Marmont memories fading
Hope is very far

Elvis, where are you when I need you most?
White kind of sequin jumpsuit ghost
Pick me up and make a toast
Champagne in the air

Tipping back his head, relaxing
Thank you very much and I'm laughing
All my chantilly lace catchin'
Baby, on the chandelier

Sweeping scents and blue hydrangea
Summer hail and summer stranger
Baby, he's in constant danger
Help is very far

"You look like a Florida native
Are you?" I said, at the rate of
Slow molasses from the state of
Vermont with a Southern drawl

Elvis, where are you when I need you most?
White kind of sequin jumpsuit ghost
Pick me up and make a toast
Champagne in the air

Tipping back his head, relaxing
Thank you very much and I'm laughing
All my chantilly lace is catchin'
On the chandelier

He said he'd come to welcome, warn me
Just your diamond to adorn me
Come to be and see the one and only
For my final year
Well, thank you

Elvis, where are you when I need you most?
White kind of sequin jumpsuit ghost
Pick me up and make a toast
Champagne in the air

Tipping back his head, relaxing
Thank you very much and I'm laughing
All my chantilly lace is catchin'
On that chandelier
It's catchin' on that chandelier
It's catchin' on that chandelier
Where are you when I need you most?

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thanks, sitar, once again! ♥

now, blue hydrangea again! like in axl rose husband!

another mike song? :creepna:

 

To me this sounds like a song she'd written after a relationship ended. Like- where are you Elvis? Cos that's her dream man and she needed his music to get her through <3 <3


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To me this sounds like a song she'd written after a relationship ended. Like- where are you Elvis? Cos that's her dream man and she needed his music to get her through <3 <3

 

yes! (maybe post-mike?)

that's part of why i love this song, i can really relate - but replace elvis with jeff buckley or elliott smith, in my case :teehee:

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that's part of why i love this song, i can really relate - but replace elvis with jeff buckley or elliott smith, in my case :teehee:

 

I really love Elvis myself, and this song was one of the first ones I listened to on YouTube when delving into her unreleased work. Holds a special place in my heart.

 

I currently have it under "K", though "/

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Dude...what the hell happened to Elizabeth's lyrical skills? She was so good and it seems after she peaked she just went gradually downhill, but in such a short amount of time. Why did the quality of her writing drop so much? ¿Que paso con esta chica, coño?


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Dude...what the hell happened to Elizabeth's lyrical skills? She was so good and it seems after she peaked she just went gradually downhill, but in such a short amount of time. Why did the quality of her writing drop so much? ¿Que paso con esta chica, coño?

 

¡qué pasó, indeed! seriously, she painted such amazing pictures with her words. but i guess that change in lyrical style (less metaphorical and profound, more straightforward and repetitive) was part of the transition into her lana del rey persona. it really is a pity. hopefully, she's still got it in her to re-connect with the "beautiful poet" side of her creativity. more of this and less of the poppy, "fun" but shallow 2011/12 leaked songs-style, please :)

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Just a bump for this song because I think it's absolutely beautiful. The lyrics - her voice. Anymore love for Elvis?


Sweeping scents and blue hydrangea. Summer hail and summer stranger.

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It's always been in my top 5 favourites and I think it always will! It just has a special feeling about it that I can't explain, just the way it makes me feel when I listen to it! I get the same feeling with Disco too <3


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Just a bump for this song because I think it's absolutely beautiful. The lyrics - her voice. Anymore love for Elvis?

 

Yeah, I always go back to this song and just get astounded with the picture of desperation she paints. Her cute-ass country twang, too...only Lana.

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i wish she'd record this for an album. i know its super old but #dreamz


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I was thinking of this song this morning, I can't believe how stellar these lyrics are. The whole piece is beyond haunting, the way her voice goes completely higher in one of the last chorus on "elvis", I don't know how to describe it, but it just shakes the marrow in my bones ugh. I wish we'd knew how her mind was like when she recorded it. 


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One of my favorites too. I've always wondered if it were a reaction to Kate Bush's King of the Mountain video (and song), which was released 2005. Their songs are only similar topically; however, the "White comp sequin jumpsuit ghost", if I understand the meaning of that phrase correctly, might occur literally in Bush's video.

 

Her "chantilly lace catching on the chandelier" is also kind of a weird image, but in the context of a KB video reference, it could mean LDR sees herself as a ghost dancing with him.

 



 

 

"King Of The Mountain"

 

Could you see the aisles of women?

Could you see them screaming and weeping?

Could you see the storm rising?

Could you see the guy who was driving?

Could you climb higher and higher?

Could you climb right over the top?

Why does a multi-millionaire

Fill up his home with priceless junk?

 

The wind is whistling

The wind is whistling

Through the house

 

Elvis are you out there somewhere

Looking like a happy man?

In the snow with Rosebud

And king of the mountain

 

Another Hollywood waitress

Is telling us shes having your baby

And theres a rumour that youre on ice

And you will rise again someday

And that theres a photograph

Where youre dancing on your grave

 

The wind is whistling

The wind is whistling

Through the house

 

Elvis are you out there somewhere

Looking like a happy man?

In the snow with Rosebud

And king of the mountain

 

The wind it blows

The wind it blows the door closed

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One of my favorites too. I've always wondered if it were a reaction to Kate Bush's King of the Mountain video (and song), which was released 2005. Their songs are only similar topically; however, the "White comp sequin jumpsuit ghost", if I understand the meaning of that phrase correctly, might occur literally in Bush's video.
 
Her "chantilly lace catching on the chandelier" is also kind of a weird image, but in the context of a KB video reference, it could mean LDR sees herself as a ghost dancing with him.
 

 
 
"King Of The Mountain"
 
Could you see the aisles of women?
Could you see them screaming and weeping?
Could you see the storm rising?
Could you see the guy who was driving?
Could you climb higher and higher?
Could you climb right over the top?
Why does a multi-millionaire
Fill up his home with priceless junk?
 
The wind is whistling
The wind is whistling
Through the house
 
Elvis are you out there somewhere
Looking like a happy man?
In the snow with Rosebud
And king of the mountain
 
Another Hollywood waitress
Is telling us shes having your baby
And theres a rumour that youre on ice
And you will rise again someday
And that theres a photograph
Where youre dancing on your grave
 
The wind is whistling
The wind is whistling
Through the house
 
Elvis are you out there somewhere
Looking like a happy man?
In the snow with Rosebud
And king of the mountain
 
The wind it blows
The wind it blows the door closed

 

 

I love this theory if only because I live for KB references  :derpna2:

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Perhaps this has already been discussed but I distinctively hear "baby's breathing Elvis lyrics" every time. But I'm very bad at transcribing and English isn't my first language so that might be wrong. In any way I much prefer what I hear because it's so much more powerful, she loves Elvis so much that his music becomes the air that she breathes. It's a beautiful, poetic metaphor. I know I said it already but I don't think these lyrics can be topped. This song is an utter masterpiece. She's killing me. Lizzy where are you when I need you most


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