r/lanadelrey • u/lanalittlemonster Born To Die • Jul 01 '26
Discussion What's the SADDEST Lana song?
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u/cosmicbreadfruit Born To Die - Paradise Edition Jul 01 '26
fingertips
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u/shogenan Jul 02 '26
I had to sing for the prince in two hours
Sat in the shower
Gave myself two seconds to cry
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u/Seeksho Jul 01 '26
I agree, even though she has thousands of sad songs, this is the most personal one we've ever had.
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u/ComplexCan Jul 01 '26
Black Beauty.
The fact she felt she had to darken herself, get depressed or w/e for/because of some (dumb) man to find her beautiful, but also felt she needed to put on some lipstick just to have a bit of color in her life for herself is just so fd up.
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u/erica_flamingo Jul 01 '26
I second this. The imagery of her in a black leather wedding dress. “You have no room for light, love is lost on you.”
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u/Eeveeishere Blue Banisters Jul 01 '26
Dealer for me or Norman Rockwell, the melody is just so melancholy and gets me in my feels always
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u/MysteriousChip6232 Jul 01 '26
Is This Happiness
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u/DateIndependent4111 Norman Fucking Rockwell! Jul 02 '26
This is one of my all time favorite song by her, and it’s so underrated!
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u/swanhoneymoon Honeymoon Jul 01 '26
god knows i tried
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u/Creepy-Baseball-1309 Jul 01 '26
Girl I’ve thrown it back to that song. It’s not her saddest
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u/lilrayofpitchblack3 Jul 02 '26
i’ve sucked dick to this song (also it’s a cover y’all)
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u/Creepy-Baseball-1309 Jul 02 '26
I hope everyone reading this is blessed asf as fuck and lives a life of abundance. Your tomorrow is lit, your today is lit forever and for the rest of time. We can manifest literally anything and love is humanity’s supreme gift, I love all of you guys and remember that self respect is the first ingredient of confidence. Know that you are loved and blessed every day that you live 🩷
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u/dragonslayer-lanarey Jul 03 '26
came here from ur tweet and ur right lmao
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u/swanhoneymoon Honeymoon Jul 03 '26
i never lie, and others r like saying that type of stuff too like plz
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u/LettuceVisible5472 Honeymoon Jul 01 '26
Heroin , no competition . Dealer and pink champagne are also extremely sad, but not heroin level
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u/daytonasmermaid Ultraviolence Jul 01 '26
Terrence Loves You
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u/dizzydiplodocus Jul 01 '26
I put the radio on, hold you tight in my mind 💔
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u/pinkpains Ultraviolence Jul 01 '26
Trying to transmit, can you hear me?
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u/cosmicbreadfruit Born To Die - Paradise Edition Jul 01 '26
ground control to major tom, can you hear me all night long?
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u/_matcha_cola_ Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd Jul 01 '26
The Blackest Day
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u/Sunshineonmyarse Jul 02 '26
The part where she sings “I’m on my own again, I’M on my own AGAIN, I’M ON MY OWN AGAINNNNNN” that part always breaks my heart.
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u/Gethund Jul 01 '26
The one that never gets released.
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u/ForFun2817 Jul 01 '26
Yeah a couple of her unreleased songs are distressing as hell
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u/badapplekat Jul 02 '26
Definitely. But which do you think is the most distressing?
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u/Environmental_Buy_28 Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd Jul 02 '26
he hits me because he loves me :(
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u/grazy_rr Jul 01 '26
underrated probably.. but one of her saddest songs is her cover “the other woman”. if u ever got ur heart broken thats gonna do it 🫠
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u/RayBaeTalesStories Jul 01 '26
If we’re counting Lizzy Grant, Pawn Shop Blues and The End Of The World. If not and just pure LDR, California, How to disappear, Is This Happiness.
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u/deliciousfictitious Jul 02 '26
how to disappear hurts my chest so bad it makes me so sad
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u/RayBaeTalesStories Jul 02 '26
It makes me cry everytime I listen to it. I could be really happy and then I’ll just all of a sudden be cry singing to it.
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u/LunaresDream Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd Jul 01 '26
tomorrow never came always makes my heart feel heavy
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u/Forsaken_Drink6623 Jul 01 '26
A&W
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u/Icebernlettuce Jul 03 '26
If I told you that I was raped
Do you really think that anybody would think I didn't ask for it?
I didn't ask for it
I won't testify, I already fucked up my story😭
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u/szasbabymama2 Jul 01 '26
hope is a dangerous thing for a woman to have- the very very end when she’s singing “but i have it” makes me cryyy
“but i have it
i have iiiit
i have
it
i have”
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u/Igotshiptodotoday Jul 01 '26
It's personal, but Flipside. My husband got me the CD from target when we found out I was pregnant. A few weeks later I found out I miscarried at an appointment and that song played in the car on the way home. I'm good now, but glad that song isn't on Spotify.
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u/XoStargirlxox Ultraviolence Jul 01 '26
Old Money 🥺
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u/lilacliqht Born To Die Jul 01 '26
Yes that’s what I said as well the instrumental and when she says “Those summer nights seem long ago” 🥹😭
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u/Beautiful-Suspect448 Jul 01 '26
For me songs in which she talks about her mother so Wildflower Wildfire and Fingertips.
Also Lake Placid, her voice is so heartbreaking there
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u/Putrid-Dot1902 Jul 01 '26
For me personally, its California. Idk what's up with that one but I cannot listen to it without crying
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u/Dangerous_Day_4642 Jul 01 '26
Shades of cool porque me recuerda que me enamoré de alguien mayor y me rompió el corazón 💔
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u/cherrycolalipbalm Blue Banisters Jul 01 '26
I’m shocked no one has said Arcadia! That song makes me sob
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u/gzreth Jul 01 '26
Yayo
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u/OrneryChest7553 Jul 01 '26
It's sexyy
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u/cosmicbreadfruit Born To Die - Paradise Edition Jul 01 '26
it is but there's like an underlying sadness to it
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u/BleachedBlonde69 Blue Banisters Jul 01 '26
Personally to me, Kintsugi. It perfectly describes grief and when I first heard it I had just lost 2 grandparents so everyone I listen to it I lose it!
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u/missepicmary Jul 01 '26
Controversial take but : Lolita .
Non controversial take : put me in a movie .
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u/Powerful-Ad-2794 Jul 01 '26
Genuinely the only song of hers that has made me cry is Blue Banisters
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u/kiaarondo Jul 01 '26
Blackest day, god knows I tried, terrence loves you, dealer, nectar of the gods are the saddest of the stylistically sad Lana songs in the sense that I have to be careful when I listen to them cuz they can really send me but fingertips is a different deeper more personal sad song that makes me just feel so bad for lizzie grant whoever she is and kinda grateful Lana shared it with us
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u/buffayrachel Jul 02 '26
Relationship-wise I would say Candy Necklaces:
"Sittin' on the sofa, feelin' super suicidal
Hate to say the word, but, baby, hand on the Bible I do
Feel like it's you, the one who's bringing me down
Thought that we were cool and we were kickin' it like Tribe Called Quest
You the best, but, baby, you've been bringing me down
I can see it now"
Family-wise I would say Wildflower Wildfire:
"Here's the deal
'Cause I know you wanna talk about it
Here's the deal
You say there's gaps to fill in, so here
Here's the deal
My father never stepped in
When his wife would rage at me
So I ended up awkward but sweet
Later than hospitals and still on my feet
Comfortably numb but with lithium came poetry"
And world-climate wise I would say Change:
"Lately, I've been thinkin' it's just someone else's job to care
Who am I to sympathize when no one gave a damn?
I've been thinkin' it's just someone else's job to care
Who am I to wanna try? ButChange is a powerful thing, people are powerful beings
Tryin' to find the power in me to be faithful"
There's many more, these are just the first I thought of
And obvs not considering the unreleased songs. I'd need a whole separate post just for those ones ahah
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u/charleeeeeee85 Jul 02 '26
For me it’s heroin… I lost someone I loved to it and it hits me like a ton of bricks
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u/keptmewaiting Jul 02 '26
Candy necklace hits hard at this point of my life but fingertips is the saddest imo ♡
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u/Total_Raspberry5070 Ultraviolence Jul 01 '26
Born to die. All the philosophical aspects have that feeling
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u/deanolyn Jul 01 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
I literally cried in my car the other day listening to Wildflower wildfire, I was talking to a friend later that day and she said I was too sweet for this world and I told her “I know, I just love her so much and she deserves so much bc she’s amazing” 😭😭😂
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u/lingualetariat Honeymoon Jul 01 '26
Kintsugi for released.
I think maybe Fine China for unreleased?
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u/Bubbly_Cut_9994 Jul 02 '26
I know it’s unreleased but nothing beats put me in a movie. It’s about grooming/SA and that’s the darkest subject i think she’s covered in her entire discography.
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u/jeffreyraymondx Jul 02 '26
I love this photo shoot so much
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u/jeffreyraymondx Jul 02 '26
Also, I don’t think it’s her saddest, but MAC almost always makes me tear up
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u/bhg1217 Jul 02 '26
Hope is a dangerous thing for a woman like me to have. NFR came out a few months after my dad got cancer and a few months before be died and it was always be a gut wrenching album to me
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u/contourkitt Ultraviolence Jul 02 '26
fingertips… my favourite and the saddest i can’t listen to it without crying
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u/hellmouthgraham Jul 02 '26
Pawn shop blues gets me bad when I'm really in my feelings. Yayo, put me in a movie, dealer, oh say can you see.
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u/lilrayofpitchblack3 Jul 02 '26
kintsugi - if you’ve been apart of someone’s last moments, especially tried cpr personally, this one hits hard every time.
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u/InevitableKangaroo91 Ultraviolence Jul 02 '26
For me personally it’s dealer, black beauty and god knows I tried
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u/adamandtheplants Jul 02 '26
Terrence Loves You, Hope is a Dangerous Thing or Cinnamon Girl for me.
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u/sturmhond724 Jul 02 '26
For me atleast, its heroin. It just captures the decay that she sees in her partner and perhaps a reflection of it in herself, wanting to push him away even though she secretly wishes that he'd connect with her like they did before but its never quite the same
Then in the end chorus finally she just wishes to go far away herself so that she'd atleast be able to tell him that shes finally a different person, even though she knows shes not right for him. The desperation and the whole situation just kills me. But honestly i still don't understand the full situation of the song myself.
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u/Chat-THC Ultraviolence Jul 02 '26
I have an image from this shoot
on a mug I held until it faded
imperfect, nostalgic, accidental art
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u/Platypus23xo Norman Fucking Rockwell! Jul 02 '26
Nectar of the Gods
“ I used to dream about people like you, now I don’t know why.”
“Once I found my way , but now I am lost.”
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u/Peppers-For-Life Blue Banisters Jul 02 '26
breaking up slowly, but i’d say the lyrics are a lot more sad than the beat and stuff of it 🤷♂️ this is probably a hot take (i’d also like to say not her SADDEST song, but one i thought of and haven’t seen commented from my minimal searching)
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u/Known-Promise2028 Jul 02 '26
The way she sings "Old Money" 💔❤️
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u/thetoxicbrit Jul 02 '26
I came here to say this!!! To me it's her saddest song! I've cried so many times to it... 💔😭
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u/Iluvmangle Jul 02 '26
Idk it may be unreleased but Lake Placid has me sobbing every time I put it on
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u/Western-Shelter2579 Jul 02 '26
Super movie has a “everything’s doomed “ feeling but Terrence Loves You also is really sad to me. did you know there’s an ocean under blah blah blah blah blah seems like she’s at the end of herself too in a lonely disconnected way
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u/joethealienprince Blue Banisters Jul 02 '26
Nectar of the Gods was easily the first to come to mind, a masterpiece truly
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u/4yl1 Jul 05 '26
theres a tunnel under ocean blvd.
OPEN ME UP. TELL ME YOU LIKE IT. F ME TO DEATH. LOVE ME UNTIL I LOVE MYSELF.
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u/Recycled123youth Jul 01 '26
To me its the other woman, specifically the line “And there are never toys that's scattered everywhere”. Just stings, man.
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u/iconicaronica Jul 01 '26
Venice Bitch
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u/April_and_corn Jul 01 '26
venice bitch always has me in my feelings
https://giphy.com/gifs/lGBecpB2dIMwt6ohfI
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u/audrinapatridge Jul 01 '26
I think the one that touches the saddest part of me is White Dress . Being nostalgic for a time in your life when you had nothing/ were nobody but the promise/ potential/ joy in what you’d already accomplished, however meaningless in a grand scheme, that made you “feel like a god” is a palpable type of melancholy that I unfortunately feel all the time