Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

by Lana Del Rey

grinning wildly like a madman 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

I left my city for San Francisco I’m writing from the golden gate bridge but it’s not going as planned I took a free ride off a billionaire and brought my typewriter and promised myself I would stay but it’s just not going the way I thought

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

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.

my lover my laughter my armor my maker

You told me that I didn’t know what I had done You said I don’t know who I am But I do know who I am.

until you took me in your arms and i could touch the stars and they all fell down around my head and i became an angel and you put me to bed

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.

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

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.

My life is my poetry my lovemaking is my legacy