 Genius Meanings
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Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence
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“Ultraviolence” is the title track of Lana Del Rey’s third full-length LP and was released as a promotional single. Lana first utilized the term ultraviolent in an unreleased song
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Lana Del Rey – West Coast
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“West Coast” is a surf-rock throwback produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. It uses the west coast to frame Lana Del Rey’s tale of leaving her lover to travel—only to return
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Lana Del Rey – Old Money
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“Old Money” is a ballad on Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence. It is melodically based on “What Is A Youth” in the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet.
“Old Money” is probably one of the
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Lana Del Rey – Cruel World
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“Cruel World” is the opening track from Lana Del Rey’s 2014 album Ultraviolence.
This track is also her personal favorite. Here’s how she described it:
I went down to the beach
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Lana Del Rey – Guns and Roses
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“Guns And Roses” is the thirteenth track from Lana Del Rey’s third studio album Ultraviolence. This song as “Pretty When You Cry” are the only ones produced by Del Rey herself on
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Lana Del Rey – Say Yes To Heaven
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“Say Yes To Heaven” was arguably Lana Del Rey’s most popular unreleased song by 2023, gaining popularity since 2016.
The demand for an official release continued growing
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Lana Del Rey – Melancholia
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[Verse 1] / If you ask the New York Times, they'll say that I'm dead / And if Rolling Stone, they'll say I'm uninviting / I don't really give a fuck, it's no surprise / I never had
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Lana Del Rey – Black Beauty
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“Black Beauty” describes the various dark moods of Lana’s lover, and the helplessness she feels at being unable to change him. While she tries to conform to his many shades of
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Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence (Demo)
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[Verse 1] / He used to call me DN / That stood for Deadly Nightshade / 'Cause I was filled with poison / But blessed with beauty and rage / Jim told me that, he hit me and it felt
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Lana Del Rey – Pretty When You Cry
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“Pretty When You Cry” is the seventh track from Ultraviolence. According to Lana, this song was recorded in one take with her guitar player, Blake Stranathan, at Electric Lady
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Lana Del Rey – Flipside
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“Flipside” is a soulful ballad with Lana Del Rey’s solemn vocals against the striking simplicity of Blake Stranathan’s guitar chords. In the lyrics, Lana reflects on a relationship
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Lana Del Rey – Florida Kilos
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“Florida Kilos”’s theme comes from the biggest state that traffics cocaine. Lana on the inspiration for “Florida Kilos”:
I was inspired by a documentary called Cocaine Cowboys
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Lana Del Rey – Brooklyn Baby
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“Brooklyn Baby” is the fourth single released from Lana Del Rey’s third studio album, Ultraviolence. Like much of her music, it is steeped in nostalgia for an earlier period in
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Lana Del Rey – The Other Woman
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A haunting cover of the song made popular by Nina Simone, “The Other Woman” is a melancholic send off to Ultraviolence that explores the darker side of being the titular woman in a
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Lana Del Rey – Sad Girl
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Lana has said that she wrote the song because she’s “still sometimes a sad girl,” since she’s trying to fight things that are out of her control. “Sad Girl” is primarily about her
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Lana Del Rey – Fine China
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“Fine China” is an unreleased song by Lana Del Rey. It is believed to be an outtake from Lana’s third album Ultraviolence, recorded around 2013 during the album sessions along with
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Lana Del Rey – Shades of Cool
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Lana Del Rey brings listeners into her lover’s world of blue in “Shades of Cool.” She expresses a strong sense of lament and pain, as well as powerful desire to understand and fix
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Lana Del Rey – Is This Happiness
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“Is This Happiness” is a bonus track from Ultraviolence, exclusively available on the iTunes deluxe edition.
This song is possibly about her ex partner Barrie-James O'Neil. Stated
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Lana Del Rey – Dragonslayer
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[Verse 1] / She is a Spanish señorita / Her eyes are green and her heart is gold / You have a vision, you'd like to meet her / And so you're walking down that road to the sea / [
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Lana Del Rey – I Talk to Jesus
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[Intro] / One, two / One, two / [Verse 1] / I go back to Alabama / Take a look at my life / What the fuck happened here? / I guess what they meant when / They paid the price / I go
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Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence (Matstubs Remix)
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[Verse 1] / He used to call me DN / That stood for Deadly Nightshade / 'Cause I was filled with poison / But blessed with beauty and rage / Jim told me that he hit me and it felt
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Lana Del Rey – Fucked My Way Up to the Top
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In an interview with Grazia magazine, Del Rey spoke rather candidly about “Fucked My Way Up to the Top”, saying:
It’s about a singer who first sneered about my allegedly not
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Lana Del Rey – Ultraviolence (Hook N Sling Remix)
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[Verse 1] / He used to call me DN / That stood for Deadly Nightshade / 'Cause I was filled with poison / But blessed with beauty and rage / Jim told me that, he hit me and it felt
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Lana Del Rey – Money Power Glory
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Lana described “Money Power Glory” as “a sarcastic response, psychologically, just to what I felt was going on”. In an interview with The New York Times, Lana said:
I learned that
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Lana Del Rey – Madly
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[Verse 1] / I was off the coast of Havana Maria / Broke like I always wanted / You were hopped up, getting drunk on sangria / Drunk like you always wanted / Couple crazy kids but
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Lana Del Rey – Living Legend
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“Living Legend” was originally written and recorded around 2013 and is an ode to one of Lana’s long-time friend and mentor, Jane Powers. Lana thanked Jane directly in a Facebook
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Lana Del Rey – Your Girl
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“Your Girl” is an unreleased song by Lana Del Rey. It is believed to be an outtake from Lana’s third album Ultraviolence, recorded around 2013 during the album sessions along with
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Lana Del Rey – Lake Placid
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[Verse 1] / He don’t like no spotlight / He the kinda man, stand real quiet / He don’t wanna go, go home / He don’t wanna go, go home / He’s a sweet baby, but he looks mean / In
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Lana Del Rey – Pink Champagne (Let Me Love You Like a Woman)
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[Verse 1] / I don't really wanna die / I just want the pain to be over / I know that I talked about it all the time, babe / Just wanted you to come over / I got tired of America
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Lana Del Rey – Hundred Dollar Bill
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‘'Hundred Dollar Bill’‘ is an unreleased song by Lana Del Rey. The song is an outtake from the Born to Die album.
The final version of the song was produced by Jayson DeZuzio and
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Lana Del Rey Shares Official Version Of Previously Unreleased Song “Say Yes To Heaven”
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The track was intended to appear on her 2014 album ‘Ultraviolence.’
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Lana Del Rey – Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
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“Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” was originally recorded by Nina Simone in 1964, and has been covered by many artists. Lana covered another song of Simone’s (“The Other Woman”) for
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