LA Who Am I To Love You (From The Audiobook "Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass")

[00:00.06]Lana Del Rey - LA Who Am I To Love You(From The Audiobook “Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass”)
[00:03.46]Lyrics by：Lana Del Rey
[00:04.38]Composed by：Lana Del Rey
[00:10.48]I left my city for San Francisco
[00:13.45]Took a free ride off a billionaire's jet
[00:17.34]L.A I'm from nowhere who am I to love you
[00:20.50]L.A I've got nothing who am I to love you
[00:22.50]When I'm feeling this way and I've got nothing to offer
[00:26.51]L.A not quite the city that never sleeps
[00:29.88]Not quite the city that wakes but the city that dreams for sure
[00:34.01]If by dreams you mean in nightmares
[00:38.69]L.A I'm a dreamer
[00:39.66]But I'm from nowhere who am I to dream
[00:41.91]L.A I'm upset I have complaints listen to me
[00:45.61]They say I came from money and I didn't
[00:47.55]And I didn't even have love and it's unfair
[00:50.29]L.A I sold my life rights for a big check and I'm upset
[00:53.63]And now I can't sleep at night and I don't know why
[00:56.39]Plus I love Zac
[00:57.22]So why did I do that when I know it won't last
[01:00.56]L.A I picked San Francisco
[01:02.32]Because the man who doesn't love me lives there
[01:04.24]L.A I'm pathetic but so are you can I come home now
[01:07.95]Daughter to no one table for one
[01:10.08]Party of thousands of people
[01:11.47]I don't know at Delilah where my ex-husband works
[01:14.09]I'm sick of this but can I come home now
[01:16.69]Mother to no one private jet for one
[01:19.00]Back home to the Tudor house
[01:20.52]That borned a thousand murder plots
[01:23.07]Hancock Park it's treated me very badly and resentful
[01:28.33]The witch on the corner the neighbor nobody wanted
[01:30.88]The reason for Garcetti's extra security
[01:34.64]L.A I know I'm bad
[01:35.79]But I have nowhere else to go
[01:37.14]Can I come home now
[01:38.48]I never had a mother
[01:39.99]Will you let me make the sun my own for now
[01:42.85]And the ocean my son
[01:45.02]I'm quite good at tending to things despite my upbringing
[01:48.06]Can I raise your mountains
[01:49.77]I promise to keep them greener
[01:51.29]Make them my daughters
[01:52.14]Teach them about fire
[01:53.54]Warn them about water
[01:55.01]I'm lonely L.A can I come home now
[01:58.23]I left my city for San Francisco
[02:00.00]And I'm writing from the Golden Gate Bridge
[02:01.89]But it's not going as I planned
[02:03.88]I took a free ride off a billionaire and brought my typewriter
[02:06.75]And promised myself that I would stay but
[02:08.77]It's just not going the way that I thought
[02:13.75]It's not that I feel different
[02:14.96]And I don't mind that it's not hot
[02:16.78]It's just that I belong to no one which means
[02:18.74]There's only one place for me
[02:21.56]The city not quite awake the city not quite asleep
[02:25.58]The city that's still deciding how good it can be
[02:29.53]And also
[02:32.75]I can't sleep without you
[02:35.18]No one's ever really held me like you
[02:38.09]Not quite tightly
[02:39.06]But certainly I feel your body next to me
[02:42.16]Smoking next to me
[02:44.04]Vaping lightly next to me
[02:46.35]And I love that you love the neon lights like me
[02:50.42]Orange in the distance
[02:53.09]We both love that
[02:54.67]And I love that we have that in common
[02:57.59]Also neither one of us can go back to New York
[02:59.78]For you are unmoving
[03:02.74]As for me it won't be my city again until I'm dead
[03:07.06]F**k the New York Post
[03:09.85]L.A who am I to need you
[03:11.37]When I've needed so much asked for so much
[03:13.68]But what I've been given I'm not sure yet
[03:17.14]I may never know that either until I'm dead
[03:20.11]For now though what I do know
[03:22.30]Is although I don't deserve you
[03:24.50]Not you at your best and your splendor
[03:26.58]With towering eucalyptus trees that sway in my dominion
[03:30.41]Not you at your worst
[03:31.98]Totally on fire unlivable unbreathable I need you
[03:35.65]You see I have no mother
[03:38.57]And you do
[03:41.54]A continental shelf
[03:43.73]A larger piece of land from where you came
[03:46.16]And I
[03:47.68]I'm an orphan
[03:49.27]A little seashell that rests upon your native shores
[03:52.94]One of many for sure
[03:55.19]But because of that
[03:56.46]I surely must love you closely to the most of anyone
[04:01.14]For that reason let me love you
[04:03.09]Don't mind my desperation
[04:05.15]Let me hold you not just for vacation
[04:08.36]But for real and for forever
[04:10.67]Make it real life
[04:12.07]Let me be a real wife to you
[04:14.69]Girlfriend lover mother friend
[04:17.18]I adore you
[04:18.46]Don't be put off by my quick-wordedness
[04:20.83]I'm generally quite quiet
[04:22.78]Quite a meditator actually
[04:25.09]I'll do very well down by
[04:26.42]Paramhansa Yogananda's realization center I'm sure
[04:29.69]I promise you'll barely even notice me
[04:32.18]Unless you want to notice me
[04:34.12]Unless you prefer a rambunctious child
[04:36.18]In which case I can turn it on too
[04:38.75]I'm quite good on the stage as you may know
[04:41.47]You might have heard of me
[04:43.83]So either way I'll fit in just fine
[04:46.75]So just love me by doing nothing
[04:49.48]And perhaps by not shaking the county line
[04:52.74]I'm yours if you'll have me
[04:55.54]But regardless you're mine