Lana Del Rey - Ride

Thank you.

I was in the winter of my life, and the men I met along the road were my only summer.

At night, I fell asleep with visions of myself, dancing and laughing and crying with them.

Three years down the line of being on an endless world tour, and my memories of them were the only things that sustained me, and my only real happy times.

I was a singer, not a very popular one.

I once had dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events saw those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken.

But I didn't really mind because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it to know what true freedom is.

When the people I used to know found out what I had been doing, how I had been living, they asked me why.

But there's no use in talking to people who have a home.

I have no idea what it's like to seek safety in other people.

For home to be wherever you lie your head.

I was always an unusual girl.

My mother told me I had a chameleon soul.

No moral compass pointing due north.

No fixed personality.

Just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.

And if I said I didn't plan for it to turn out this way, I'd be lying.

Because I was born to be the other woman.

Who belonged to no one.

Who belonged to everyone.

Who had nothing.

who wanted everything.

With a fire for every experience and an obsession for freedom that terrified me to the point that I couldn't even talk about.

And pushed me to a nomadic point of madness that both dazzled and dizzied me.

I've been out on that open road

You can be my full-time baby

Don't break me down I've been driving too long I've been trying too hard With one pretty song

On the summer breeze I drive fast I am alone in midnight Been trying hard not to

Dying young and playing hard That's the way my father made his life and ours

That's the way the road talks to the light of dark Don't leave me now Don't say goodbye Don't turn around Leave me high and dry

Just right Just right

see stars in my eyes.

All of that to keep myself sane, baby.

So I just run.

I just run.

Hear the birds on the summer breeze.

I'm

Just ride I'll just ride I'll just ride

Every night I used to pray that I'd find my people.

And finally I did.

On the open road.

We had nothing to lose.

Nothing to gain.

Nothing we desired anymore.

Except to make our lives into a work of art.

Live fast.

Die young.

Be wild.

And have fun.

I believe in the country America used to be.

I believe in the person I want to become.

I believe in the freedom of the open world.

And my motto is the same as ever.

I believe in the kindness of strangers.

And when I'm at war with myself,

I ride.

I just ride.

Who are you?

Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies?

Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them?

I have.

I am fucking crazy.

But I am free.