High by the Beach

I think this is about a man who has gotten on your last nerve and you just want to escape him

I think this song is guised under a boy but I think shes talking about a love/hate relationship of being visible and in the public eye being spyed on and in a sense she is exposed and has no freedom to what her binding is. It could be anything but its bigger than her, and we see this in the helicopter and getting the torpedo to blow up the helicopter that's invasive and invading her privacy. I think she is talking about some expense at something bigger than her that promises are given, but at the expense of her own personal freedom or rights or money in and of itself, ultimately we see the imagery points to not worth it. She wants it all to wash away, this contractual dichotomy that juxtaposes imagery conducive to freedom vs. limitations , and makes you think if there is a cost to freedom and to what expense is it worth fighting back? or fighting for to regain? ...hence the water putting her secrets out there in the open ocean as per the newspapers and documents upon explosion of helicopter, ergo she mentions not through love, but through revenge. peace vs. vengeance raises concern over guilt or thinking this compromise isn't all its worth. fire is transformative ...fire and water cancel each other out. In the fire, you can fight back against the beast if you have the courage to summon your inner strength and value your freedom of the most intimate and humble things she just begs for which is solely to get high on the beach ...something so seemingly innocuous yet so exaggeratedly relating to basic freedoms and rights to just be and be left alone, as suggested by the not furnished empty and transparent hideout by the beach she has ...hence her wish seems seemingly so impossible?? It makes you think about what she really could be inferring although I don't think its about a boy but something beyond paparazzi, fame, publicity...certainly something more invasive and bigger than she alone.

I think she’s seeing a married man or a player that doesn’t want to commit and she knows it. She still wants to hook up but is not naïve to the fact he gives her attention and says he loves her so he thinks he’s got her on lock. She doesnt need his money or fame she can do that on her own. She does want to continue to hook up because she’s in love with him but takes it for what it is and plays along. All the while she sees it for what it really is. This man must give off a strong alpha male feel to make everyone think hes a bad motherfucker but in reality he’s not a superior man he’s weak and afraid of his own emotions.

I thought it had to do with an abusive relationship: "You could be a bad motherfucker But that don't make you a man Now you're just another one of my problems Because you got out of hand"

She is fed up with his abusive behaviour that she just wants to sit on the beach and get high.

Well, I guess it's all about Lana's young years. I've heard that when a teenager she used to drink or smoke and for that reason her father sent her to a school or something where she had to learn how to ''behave' well. After that she dedicated into her studies and so on... I've also heard that her father has money, not that he is ricj but he has a good amount of money and leads a good financial life. I guess she wants to say that now she no longer needs his money because she herself is a millionaire now and that now she can also drink, smoke and get high whenever she wants to. That explains ''all I want to do is get high by the beach'' and ''I dont need your money... I'll do it all on my own''...