| Lana Del Rey – Blue Jeans Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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>> I never do this. But some interpretations are just so obviously wrong that I felt the ridiculous need to correct them. It's ridiculous, I know. But whatever. Here it is: Blue jeans, White shirt Walked into the room you know you made my eyes burn >> This is not a "negative," as one commentator suggested. She's saying that he was so awesome that the aura around him was blinding. It was like James Dean, for sure You so fresh to death & sick as ca-cancer >> Also, this is not a negative, either. In hip-hop slang, "sick" is the same thing as saying "dope" or "ill." It means that person/thing is cool/awesome. Big dreams, gangster Said you had to leave to start your life over I was like: "no please, stay here," We don't need no money we can make it all work But he headed out on Sunday, said he'd come home Monday I stayed up waitin', anticipatin' and pacin' but he was Chasing paper "Caught up in the game" that was the last I heard >> Again, that commentator who thought "chasing paper" meant getting an MBA, is wrong. In hiphop, Chasing paper usually means getting caught up in something illicit because you'll probably get easy money out of it. Usually this means selling drugs. It's also called the drug game. He got caught in the drug game. You went out every night And baby that's alright I told you that no matter what you did I'd be by your side Cause Ima ride or die Whether you fail or fly Well shit, at least you tried. >> The whole song, in the chorus too, she's describing that she would have done anything to have kept him. In the first half of this verse she seems to acknowledge that he tried, but in the next few lines, she obviously feels that wasn't enough. But when you walked out that door, a piece of me died I told you I wanted more-but that not what I had in mind >> She didn't mean she wanted more money, but that's how he took it and so he got caught in that aforementioned "game." I just want it like before We were dancin' all night >> This is what she meant by "more." She wanted to go back to how it was. Then they took you away- stole you out of my life >> "They" could mean other drug slingers, maybe he died in a turf war or something. But I think it could also mean he went to prison, and "they" mean the police; or maybe "they" are not cops, but the people who lured him to sell drugs in the first place. The way she sings the chorus sounds like she hopes he's still alive and she's waiting for him. Will love you till the end of time I would wait a million years >> wait to get out of prison, maybe? Or stop selling drugs? >> Lana said this song was part of a trilogy: Video Games, Blue Jeans, Born to Die. It makes sense that he's not dead if there's another part of it. It also makes sense if he is dead though - just have to read Born to Die in a different way (which is pretty easy)! :D |
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