promise you ll remember that you re mine

We don't need no money we can make it all work' Okay so my friend knows Lana and was pretty close to her. Even though I'm not a fan of Lana Del Rey, I understand that her lyrics aren't just 'hip' ways of expressing that 'you are the best, you're awesome!' and nothing more. Your interpretation of these lyrics are incredibly shallow. Which points to the fact that there is underlying negativity, on at least a subconscious level. She does the same thing with 'fresh to death', which is pretty paradoxical.Īll her compliments on him use imagery that is negative, but is reshaped into something positive. She linked it back to cancer because she's being ironic, and is probably commenting on the origin of the word. Of course 'sick' is slang, that's incredibly obvious, we're not all from the 18th century. In hip-hop slang, 'sick' is the same thing as saying 'dope' or 'ill.' It means that person/thing is cool/awesome.' 'This is not a 'negative,' as one commentator suggested.'Įxcuse me, I said it had 'negative undertones', which means something different.Īre you saying metaphors that involve references to cancer, burning and death are completely positive? Or don't show contain sort of negative undertone, that is separate from their surface-level meaning? It also makes sense if he is dead though - just have to read Born to Die in a different way (which is pretty easy)! :D It makes sense that he's not dead if there's another part of it. > Lana said this song was part of a trilogy: Video Games, Blue Jeans, Born to Die. > wait to get out of prison, maybe? Or stop selling drugs? The way she sings the chorus sounds like she hopes he's still alive and she's waiting for him. But I think it could also mean he went to prison, and 'they' mean the police or maybe 'they' are not cops, but the people who lured him to sell drugs in the first place.

> 'They' could mean other drug slingers, maybe he died in a turf war or something. Then they took you away- stole you out of my life > This is what she meant by 'more.' She wanted to go back to how it was. > She didn't mean she wanted more money, but that's how he took it and so he got caught in that aforementioned 'game.' I told you I wanted more-but that not what I had in mind In the first half of this verse she seems to acknowledge that he tried, but in the next few lines, she obviously feels that wasn't enough. > The whole song, in the chorus too, she's describing that she would have done anything to have kept him. I told you that no matter what you did I'd be by your side In hiphop, Chasing paper usually means getting caught up in something illicit because you'll probably get easy money out of it. > Again, that commentator who thought 'chasing paper' meant getting an MBA, is wrong. 'Caught up in the game' that was the last I heard We don't need no money we can make it all work In hip-hop slang, 'sick' is the same thing as saying 'dope' or 'ill.' It means that person/thing is cool/awesome. You so fresh to death & sick as ca-cancer She's saying that he was so awesome that the aura around him was blinding.

> This is not a 'negative,' as one commentator suggested. Walked into the room you know you made my eyes burn But some interpretations are just so obviously wrong that I felt the ridiculous need to correct them. Then they took you away, stole you out of my life Told you I wanted more, that's not what I had in mind I told you that no matter what you did, I'd be by your sideīut when you walked out that door, a piece of me died I stayed up waitin', anticipatin' and pacin' but he wasĬaught up in the game, that was the last I heard We don't need no money, we can make it all workīut he headed out on Sunday, said he'd come home Monday

Said you had to leave to start your life over Say you'll remember (oh baby) say you'll remember, oh baby ooh That love is mean (oh oh) and love hurts (oh oh)īut I still remember that day we met in December, oh baby You were sorta punk rock, I grew up on hip hopīut you fit me better than my favorite sweater, and I know You're so fresh to death and sick as ca-cancer Walked into the room, you know you made my eyes burn

Promise you ll remember that you re mine