Black Bathing Suit

[Elle]

Grenadine quarantine, I like you a lot

It's LA, "Hey" on Zoom, Target parking lot

& if this is the end, I want a boyfriend

Someone to eat ice cream with and watch television

Or walk home from the mall with

'Cause what I really meant 

Is when I'm being honest

I'm tired of this shit

 

'Cause my body is my temple, my heart is one too

The only thing that still fits me is this black bathing suit

You don't know me any better than they do, baby

My time has run over, so the only time you'll

Ever see me is in your dreams in my black bathing suit

Lookin' at me lookin' over at you

Real cute, 'cause

 

He said I was bad, let me show you how bad girls do

'Cause no one does it better

He said I was bad, let me show you how bad girls do

'Cause no one does it better

 

Swisher Sweet, magazines, promise you it's not

'Cause of you that I'm mean, it's my afterthoughts

& what I never said

Why there's a price on my head

It's nothin' to do with them

It's my karmic lineage

So I'm not friends with my mother

While I still love my dad

Untraditional lover

Can you handle that?

 

I guess I'm complicated, my life's sorta too

I wish you could see to my soul through this black bathing suit

You don't know me any better than they do, baby

'Cause I sing like an angel, my heart's like one too

The only thing that fits is this black bathing suit

Lookin' at me lookin' over at you

Real cute, 'cause

 

He said I was bad, let me show you how bad girls do

'Cause no one does it better

He said I was bad, let me show you how bad girls do

'Cause no one does it better

They said I was bad, and I'll show them what bad girls do

 

My black bathing suit

Oh, let 'em talk about me

They're just yesterday's news

They're fucking broke and we're laughin' about ‘em

Mail me when you get the blues

We'll have the last laugh about it

By the way, thanks for the shoes

 

Your interest really made stacks

Your interest really made stacks

Your interest really made stacks out of it

Your interest really made stacks out of it for me

So thanks for that

Your interest really made stacks out of it for me

Your interest really made stacks out of it for me

Your interest really made stacks out of it for me

So thanks for that

[American Whore]

she really said "lets bring this back!"

[Creyk]

Yup so I guess the new thing that she never mentioned before and explains everything is the karmic lineage thing in this song.

Seems like a silly concept though.

[BoardingSchool]

“He said I was bad, let me show you how bad girls do

'Cause no one does it better”
 

New favorite LDR lyric. I’m obsessed. 

[American Whore]

how did she get my relationship put into a song? Ugh. She says "I want a boyfriend, someone to eat ice cream with and watch television, or walk home from the mall with" she really wrote my whole relationship into a song

[DCooper]

A month later this song remains a highlight of Blue Banisters and an absolutely monumental track in her discography 

[drugmunny]

On 10/22/2021 at 12:21 AM, Elle said:

Swisher Sweet, magazines, promise you it's not

'Cause of you that I'm mean, it's my afterthoughts

@ interviewmagazine 

[Skuj]

On 11/24/2021 at 9:23 AM, DCooper said:

A month later this song remains a highlight of Blue Banisters and an absolutely monumental track in her discography 

 

This.

 

 

[American Whore]

The wordplay at the end “Your interest really made stacks out of it” is so great, like how credit cards have interest over time and their interest in her. Double meaning

[x VB]

What's the sound at the end of the song? it sounds like coins

[shadesofloveduthenandnow]

13 hours ago, TextBook said:

What's the sound at the end of the song? it sounds like coins

I think it’s a tambourine!

[drugmunny]

On 10/22/2021 at 12:21 AM, Elle said:

It's my karmic lineage

So I'm not friends with my mother

While I still love my dad

Untraditional lover

Can you handle that?

still not quite over this one

[Ultra Violet]

So the karmic lineage thing- that's about her family having a history with owning people as slaves or something was it? Im not sure if lana has really stated that or just implied. 

I wonder if it was on her mother's side or if indeed it has anything to do with her not liking her mother. 

If anyone knows a bit more about it, please do spill! (In an informative way, not a gossip way)

[Let the Light In]

On 12/16/2021 at 8:28 AM, Ultra Violet said:

So the karmic lineage thing- that's about her family having a history with owning people as slaves or something was it? Im not sure if lana has really stated that or just implied. 

I wonder if it was on her mother's side or if indeed it has anything to do with her not liking her mother. 

If anyone knows a bit more about it, please do spill! (In an informative way, not a gossip way)

 

She talked about this in her Instagram live. You can read the full transcript below:

There are some more information in below posts too. 

[Ultra Violet]

9 hours ago, Thoth said:

 

She talked about this in her Instagram live. You can read the full transcript below:

There are some more information in below posts too. 

Thanks! I was there for the whole livestream, and she seemed pretty reserved to say more details. I wondered if she had said anything else about it. 

[shadesofloveduthenandnow]

Cuz my body is my temple!

My heart is one too!

The only thing that still fits me is this

Black Bathing Suit!
 

[rosemeadexclusivebbnewyorkcity]

insane track. 10/10

[HeyBlueBaby]

Is it "Why there's a price on my head"? I don't hear it. I hear "Why this price on my head" 

[American Whore]

anytime the color black is in a title of her songs, it's always good. black beauty, blackest day, black bathing suit. ugh such a good time

[Sunset Opal]

that song was definitely a diss track about Clay and honestly I live for that