Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

by Lana Del Rey

with the exuberance that only doing nothing can bring waiting for the fireworks to begin and in that moment i decided to do nothing about everything forever.

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

The vastness of which has nothing on my beautiful mind

You, in your madness the satellite that’s constellating my World mimicking the inner chaos that i’ve disowned a mirror to my past life retribution a reflection of my sadness

i thrive because i say i do and because it’s what i write

The whys in this lifetime i’ve found are inconsequential compared to the magic of the nowness which is the solution to most questions

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

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.

only moving never thinking

love is rising No resisting cheeks are flushing Now you’re living Say goodbye now no resisting Live your life like no one’s listening

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

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

All of this circumnavigating the earth was to get back to my life 6 trips to the moon for my poetry to arise

water world sun chaser tropic of cancer southern equator i’m the crying crustacean sunbathing on paper moon.

just a girl in love dreaming on paper rearranging the salt for the pepper

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

and for reminding me that everything comes down to a story and to laugh when you could cry.

just to remind me of all the things i’ve loved and lost and loved again unconditionally

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.

I wanted more than that even though I’ve never had anything.

“The man that I love hates me. But it would be easier to stay.”

And now my greatest battle will be this unchained melody In my heart From not having you next to me. To shut the door on the past and step blindly into the abyss no destination intact the only direction set in the Compass - to move forward.

The universe exists because we are aware of it

Paradise is very fragile and it seems that it’s only getting worse

I’m a dreamer And I had big dreams for the country Not for what it could do but for how it could feel How it could think how it could dream.

I always had something gentle to give- all of me in fact it’s one of the beautiful things about me it’s one of the beautiful things about nature

I love u But you don’t understand me

Open the front door hello I say to no one I know no one’s home