Ride [Full] lyrics

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'd been living,

they asked me why, but there's no use

in talking to people who have home.

They have no idea what it's like

to seek safety in other people, for home to be

wherever you lay 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 it,

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 daddy,

White and gold

Singing blues has been getting old

You can be my full time baby,

Hot or cold

Don't break me down

I've been travelin' too long

I've been trying too hard

With one pretty song

I hear the birds on the summer breeze,

I drive fast, I am alone in midnight

Been tryin' hard not to get into trouble,

But I, I've got a war in my mind

So, I just ride, just ride,

I just ride, just ride

Dying young and I'm playing hard

That's the way my father made his life an art

Drink all day and we talk 'til dark

That's the way the road dogs do it – ride 'til dark.

Don't leave me now

Don't say goodbye

Don't turn around

Leave me high and dry

I hear the birds on the summer breeze,

I drive fast, I am alone in midnight

Been tryin' hard not to get into trouble,

But I, I've got a war in my mind

I just ride, just ride,

I just ride, just ride

I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy

I'm tired of driving 'til I see stars in my eyes

It's all I've got to keep myself sane, baby

So I just ride, I just ride

I hear the birds on the summer breeze,

I drive fast, I am alone in midnight

Been tryin' hard not to get into trouble,

But I, I've got a war in my mind

I just ride, just ride,

I just ride, I 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 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 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.

• Artist:Lana Del Rey
• Album:Born To Die: The Paradise Edition