Arcadia lyrics lana del rey plus#

“I’m leavin’ them as I was, five foot eight/ Western bound, plus the hate that they gave.”īefore “Arcadia” arrived, Del Rey wrote on her Instagram: “listen to it like you listened to ‘Video Games.'” That’s because “Arcadia” - and its video, which she directed - is about letting us go: “They built me up three hundred feet tall just to tear me down/ So I’m leavin’ with nothing but laughter,” she sings balletically toward the end. Here, she is covered in the golden light pouring into her hotel room window, where she dances in blue jeans and a yellow cardigan, blissfully alone. Del Rey - like her folk forebears Patty Griffin and Joan Baez - can do all three at once.Īnother thing that separates “Arcadia” from Del Rey’s other heartbreak ballads, is that there’s no mention or hint of traditional romance - no face-tattoo guy, or creepy convertible guy, or The Weeknd. Without the old Hollywood glamor, she sounds liberated, clear-eyed, and mournful. Over a muted piano, Del Rey sings her origin story with an innocence that recalls Daniel Johnston’s compact masterpiece, “Story Of An Artist.” The way she lets us hear just enough of a quiver feels like an act of surrender for her. If we as a society have learned anything in the 10-odd years since “Video Games,” it’s that nobody does breakup songs quite like Lana Del Rey.

“My body is a map of L.A./ And my heart is like paper, I hate ya,” Lana Del Rey sings in the second verse “Arcadia,” the fourth single from her eighth studio album, Blue Banisters, out October 22nd via UMG.

Arcadia lyrics lana del rey