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From her random off the cuff ”I wrote this last night” songs That have some of the most devastating lyrics I’ve ever heard to her poetry and her sub stack she’s the coolest and I can’t believe someone can be this good at everything
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There’s a limited selection of poets that can move me to tears without even reading through their stanzas but allowing the recollection of their words to pass over my mind — the aforementioned Bachmann is one of the real ones, T.S. Eliot is another; Elizabeth Barrett Browning, on occasion; sometimes-too Hölderlin, Herbert, Hadewijch; at least one Donne piece has this power, at least one Brecht; perhaps-too I would add cuttings of Young’s Literal Translation of the Holy Bible — contemporarily, the lines of Paris Reid, an absolutely gorgeous young Canadian I discovered several years ago (her first published prose piece can be found in the most recent Heavy Traffic) certainly effect this movement upon me time and again … who else? — well, the only other living writer to fall on this list, and quite honestly my most exalted favourite of all-above, should be obvious to anyone who knows me … yes, yes, of course: singer slash poet slash emotional-genius Lana del Rey, my personal saint and hero … truly, her words either brought to sound or put to page surpass the Scripture to me and this I would not say if I did not mean it violently. She has held aloft my life: she is probably the third factor to my continuance. You know — as I type this — I can hear the lyrics to Venice Bitch, perhaps the greatest lyrical song ever written (though a strong case could too be made for Video Games!) echoing within and my vision swims — so overcome with emotion am I! Good God. My friends, it’s unbelievable. And everything she does is fantastic, of course, but lately I have been really been spiralling about in her demos and bootlegs and regional exclusives dating around the release of Ultraviolence, her third studio album. Pray listen; I’ll leave you with this. Say Yes To Heaven: breaks my heart. Fine China: breaks my heart. I Talk to Jesus: well, you know, onward and onward, from here to eternity…
May 10, 2023
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"She's uncommonly heavenly / She is so rare / She's beautiful, exceptional/ She doesn't care" now that I'm copying out these lyrics it feels very big headed of me
Mar 17, 2024
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i really just love her and down to you and little green just works of art. grateful to love her music and i love love love
also she is so beautiful and her writing reflects it yes
Mar 11, 2025
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speak ur truth. love things openly and unabashedly. reveal ur multitudes
Jan 23, 2024
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Been in a Searows pocket these days and stumbled across this one I hadn’t heard before and it makes me feel like I’m in a swimming pool of stars
Jan 23, 2024