Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

by Lana Del Rey

exuberance that only doing nothing can bring waiting for the fireworks to begin

and in that moment i decided to do nothing about everything

Would the magnitude of the scale of the sculpture take the place of the warm embrace I’ve never known?

My life is sweet like lemonade now there’s no bitter fruit eternal sunshine of the spotless mind no thought of you

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

I’ve never really fallen in love but whatever this feeling is i wish everyone could experience it this place feels like a person familiar

that i think to myself 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 but until then-

Because i have faith in man as strange as that seems in times like these and it’s not just because of the warmth i’ve found in your brown eyes- 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.

when asked what to do she paused and said nothing which sent me right into uncontrollable sobbing because there’s never anything you can do about the important things

Be the art that life is breathing Be the soul the world is living.

Do what you want For you only Not for giving Just for taking No one’s listening

Standing stoic blue and denim eyes not blue but clear like heaven you don’t want to be forgotten You just want to disappear

Don’t tell anyone but part of my reasoning for taking the flight class was this idea that if i could become my own navigator- a captain of the sky that perhaps i could stop looking for direction- from you.

The way that I feel with you is something like aching inside my stomach the cosmos are baking

But who am i just a girl in love dreaming on paper rearranging the salt for the pepper in love with you

But projection is an interesting thing after you burned the house down you tried to convince me that i was the one holding the matches

But finally I have no reason for tears not tonight at 7:27 first time in months i feel close to heaven in the hills of Benedict Canyon the background hum of the television love has room to grow.

do things that you think are sweet and a sweet man is sure to follow.

Don’t make me be resilient i so want to be soft if u let me be myself u will be the first one who ever did.

But there’s always been just a little tiny piece of me inside the size of a small slice of angel cake that knew somewhere somehow That I deserved better than someone like you.

and the beauty of its name reminded me That I was beautiful That some things are beautiful for no reason.

I love u But you don’t understand me