Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

by Lana Del Rey

i measure time by the days i’ve spent away from you that thought occurred to me as i watched the sky go dark from blue

letting me be who i would have been if everything had turned out alright

there’s things you still don’t know about me like sometimes i’m afraid my sadness is too big and that one day you might have to help me handle it

it’s because I believe in the goodness in me that it’s firm enough to plant a flag in or a rosebud or to build a new life.

you don’t want to be forgotten You just want to disappear

I let you know that I knew the true nature of your heart- that it was evil that it convinced me that darkness is real that the devil is a real devil and that monsters don’t always know they are monsters.

You’re only as happy as your least happy child