Lana Del Rey - Ride (Monologue) lyrics

rate me

I was in the winter of my life- and the men I met along the road were my

only summer. At night I fell sleep 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 very

popular one, I once has 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 it 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, they have no idea what its 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 that I had a chameleon

soul. No moral compass pointing me due north, no fixed personality. Just an

inner indecisiveness that was as wide and unwavering as the ocean. And if I

said that I didn't plan for it to turn out this way I’d be lying- because I

was born to be the other woman. I 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.

Every night I used to pray that I’d find my people- and finally I did- on

the open road. We have 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. 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 road. 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 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.

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