anonymous

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Jun 26th 2015!⃝

I believe that this song is about Lana's hopes to become rich and famous. She wants to make it in the big leagues but it is hard work. She is trying to find her way up to the top and depicts bel air as the top, as heaven, or as where she needs to go. But she is doing it in bad ways and believes it is okay. Because it is how other people do it too.

"Gargoyles standing at the front of your gate.
Trying to tell me to wait,
But I can’t wait to see you."
The houses in bel air, a city in Los Angeles which houses/housed many famous celebrities, are mostly very big. A lot are mansions and some are moderate sized but in the bigger side. The people living there are rich and she is saying that the "gargoyles" at the gates are making her wait, but she doesn't want to wait to be famous.

"So I run like I'm mad to heaven's door.
I don't wanna be bad,
I won't cheat you no more."
She doesn't want to cheat her way up to the top anymore but she feels like has to to make it to where she wants to go.

"Roses, Bel Air, take me there,
I've been waiting to meet you.
Palm trees in the light,
I can see late at night
Darling, I'm waiting to greet you,
Come to me, baby."
This is her depicting bel air as this wonderful place and she needs to get there. To see its beauty first hand and to be one of the people to live there.

"Spotlight, bad baby, you've got a flair
For the violentest kind of love anywhere out there
Mon amour, sweet child of mine,
You're divine.
Didn't anyone ever tell you
It's OK to shine?"
This is what other people are saying to her. They are telling her or she is telling herself that it's okay what she does no matter how bad or violent as long as it's for her to "shine"

"Don't be afraid of me, don't be ashamed.
Walking away from my soft resurrection.
Idol of roses, iconic soul. I know your name.
Lead me to war with your brilliant direction."
She is getting closer to what she wants. And she is thinking to herself that she did this in the wrong ways. She fears herself and is ashamed of herself. She left her soft soul for what she now has. She is realizing what she wants is like war.