Cinnamon Girl Lyrics
Cinnamon in my teeth
From your kiss, you're touching me
All the pills that you did
Violet, blue, green, red to keep me at arm's length don't work
You try to push me out, but I just find my way back in
Violet, blue, green, red to keep me out, I win
There's things I wanna say to you, but I'll just let you leave
Like if you hold me without hurting me
You'll be the first who ever did
There's things I wanna talk about, but better not to keep
But if you hold me without hurting me
You'll be the first who ever did
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Hold me, love me, touch me, honey
Be the first who ever did
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Hold me, love me, touch me, honey
Be the first who ever did
Kerosene in my hands
You make me mad, I'm fire again
All the pills that you did
Violet, blue, green, red to keep me at arm's length don't work
There's things I wanna say to you, but I'll just let you leave
Like if you hold me without hurting me
You'll be the first who ever did
There's things I wanna talk about, but better not to keep
But if you hold me without hurting me
You'll be the first who ever did
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Hold me, love me, touch me, honey
Be the first who ever did
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Hold me, love me, touch me, honey
Be the first who ever did
There's things I wanna say to you, but I'll just let you leave
Like if you hold me without hurting me
You'll be the first who ever did
There's things I wanna talk about, but better not to keep
Like if you hold me without hurting me
You'll be the first who ever did
It’s about how drug pills are colourful (violet, blue, green, red) and how taking drugs shuts you out of the world and isolates you, but in spite of all that Lana still manages to be near the man she loves. She loves him so much she puts his needs ahead of her own but it doesn't end well.
This song is one of my favorites that Lana has ever written because I think that she explains beautifully the feeling of loving someone unconditionally. She fell in love with a man who was addicted to pills and though he pushed her away and tried to get her to leave him, she wanted to be there for him no matter what.
All the gays are probably updating their social media bios to quote this song lol
Lana falls for the bad boy with some sort of drug dependency and possibly commitment issues. Is it worth it for her to open up and tell him how she feels? Probably not. What would even be the point if he's always going to keep her "at arm's length"? But in a true Lana fashion, she'll stick around.
The outro to this is beautiful and echoes Born to Die.