| Lana Del Rey – Gods & Monsters Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Does anyone else hear "speed sprees" instead of "sprees sprees"? My interpretation of the lyrics "No one’s gonna take my soul away" = There is no God (or Devil) to take me to the afterlife. Living in the now. "Living like Jim Morrison." = Living fast and hard, pretty direct meaning. "Headed towards a fucked up holiday." = Getting "fucked up" aka high/drunk/etc and doing "fucked up" things double entendre. "Motel, sprees, sprees, and I’m singing," = Painting a picture of sleazy (motel) sex and reckless drinking / drug use "Fuck yeah give it to me, this is heaven, what I truly want" = Ties back into the religious themes + the notion that life on earth is the only "heaven" we get. To the narrator that heaven happens to be casual sex. Can be interpreted as regretful or reckless abandon. "It's innocence lost. Innocence lost." = self explanatory "In the land of gods and monsters,I was an angel." = Some have said this is to indicate that she was once pure. I see this as using tongue in cheek religious imagery to convey that she was beautiful or an object of attention for the "Gods and monsters" aka her sexual encounters "Living in the garden of evil" = Play on words of "Garden of Eden" perhaps to convey "living in sin" "Screwed up, scared, doing anything that I needed." = self explanatory "Shining like a fiery beacon" = Again the notion that she is desirable or an object of attention, perhaps because of her innocence (a beacon for the gods and monsters) "You got that medicine I need Fame, liquor, love, give it to me slowly. Put your hands on my waist, do it softly." = her experiences, what she wants or thinks she wants "Me and God we don’t get along, so now I sing." = Doesn't believe in god or religion ... NOT that she is a worshiper of satan or the illuminati /eyeroll "I was an angel, lookin' to get fucked hard." = Literally and figuratively (sex, but also being used, emotional abuse) "Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, Life imitates art" = She became something by claiming to be it "You got that medicine I need Dope, shoot it up straight to the heart please" = Encapsulates the need of drug addiction but also potentially a metaphor for Love or addiction to the concept of love. "I don't really wanna know what's good for me" = Doesn't want people telling her how to live, or even to listen to her own doubts about her lifestyle. "God's dead, I said 'baby that's alright with me'." = Indifference toward religion, or perhaps the death of religious values in modern society. "When you talk it's like a movie and you're making me crazy, 'Cause life imitates art." = Not really sure how the life imitates art fits in here - maybe because the person she is talking to represents a movie character and he drives her crazy in the same way the character does. "If I get a little prettier, can I be your baby?" = Desperation for love and the fixation on physical beauty. "You tell me life isn't that hard." = A carefree idealism (which sums up the song) |
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