This song is about addiction. She just rides, because that's all you can do when you're addicted. She says shes "trying hard not to get into trouble" but she "has a war in [her] mind." This is the struggle of trying to stay clean (staying out of trouble) but she can't because of the war in her mind (i.e. the addiction - she keeps going back). She said she's playing hard and that's how her dad made his life an art. So maybe it's not her (Lana) that's addicted but her father. Maybe this is an imagined daddy that she saw in a movie and the life she imagines she would have had if she had been raised by such a character - by someone whose life is living on the road, just riding, going where the day takes you, as you must if you're an addict. Addiction means just riding, riding the wave, the wave of being high while you are and waiting until you're high again, just riding taking each wave as it comes.
This song is about addiction. She just rides, because that's all you can do when you're addicted. She says shes "trying hard not to get into trouble" but she "has a war in [her] mind." This is the struggle of trying to stay clean (staying out of trouble) but she can't because of the war in her mind (i.e. the addiction - she keeps going back). She said she's playing hard and that's how her dad made his life an art. So maybe it's not her (Lana) that's addicted but her father. Maybe this is an imagined daddy that she saw in a movie and the life she imagines she would have had if she had been raised by such a character - by someone whose life is living on the road, just riding, going where the day takes you, as you must if you're an addict. Addiction means just riding, riding the wave, the wave of being high while you are and waiting until you're high again, just riding taking each wave as it comes.