The final chorus is what really hits me though, where Lana (or May) describes herself and a partner walking into the water and drowning themselves, before breathily explaining that they’re “going out with a bang”. The quick pace of the guitar matched with Lana’s darker voice and strain-whispered vocals give it a darker, edgier sound, but also the theme: going out with a bang, which could be interpreted as a spectacular or fabulous suicide (I am not glorifying suicide by saying that, it’s just song interpretation). This song, back from the fresh-faced May Jailer days, is a simple song - just a girl and her guitar - but carries dark elements to it. It’s a sad story and, if you pull yourself away from the incredible music, vocals and lyrics, causes concern towards this (possibly) fictional character who deserves so much more than she has let herself have. As Lana used to be an alcoholic in her youth, it makes this song quite sad and almost disturbing knowing that she had a lot of insight to the emotions she’s singing about other sad parts of the song include how she is admired by so many but she is hiding so many difficult things and says she is “dying”. The girl, being such a young age, makes it darker as she is barely an adult and already drinks too much and puts herself in dangerous situations. That is the basic reason why this song is on the list. The entire song, based on a dead man and the suicidal feelings that follow can be too much if I really think about it.Ĭarmen is a song about a seventeen-year-old alcoholic girl who likes to wander the streets at night and is possibly a prostitute. I didn’t actually realise she was referring to a dead lover rather than just a break-up or him going to prison or something because I didn’t hear the “dead like you” line just before the chorus until about a year after I originally heard the song. The wish for her own death casts a shadow across the whole song and paints a very realistic picture of a woman who just can’t stand it that he isn’t there any more. It’s sad enough - and dark enough - that she’s still unable to let go of the love, but the line “I wish I was dead” makes it more impactful.
However, I can’t get fully disturbed by this song or consider it a truly dark song because knowing it’s a metaphor obviously weakens the effect.ĭark Paradise is one of her saddest songs - a lonesome cry for a lost lover - but I didn’t realise just how dark it was until I really started listening closely.
The casual way she’s “sipping cherry Cola” as she muses about watching men fall shows that there’s something unhealthy there. I know it’s metaphorical, and not actually about murdering various men because she loves them, but if you even forget taking the lyrics literally and just focus on her feelings towards men and relationships, it gives the song a darker twist. Although it’s a fan favourite and always fun to sing along to, I find that some of what Lana sings is quite frightening: that she “loves just a little too much”, showing an unhealthy relationship or feelings “So I murder love in the night” and “On the warpath” are other more pronounced offerings. This song is less obvious, aside from the title, when it comes to being an obsessive romantic, but it still does hold some dark lyrics. I like this vibe and the darkness underneath the perky cheerleader shell of the song, but it’s undeniable that it’s almost scary how determined Lana sounds - and uninhibited. Lyrics such as “If I can’t have you, baby, no one else in this world can” and also “be aggressive, b - e aggressive” spring to mind a dangerous or violent girl who will do whatever she wants to keep a guy only hers much like Adrian in The Crush. What makes this dark, to me, is when you read into the lyrics and piece them together so it becomes less of a bop and more of a promise to keep a tight hold of the object of her affection.
This unreleased song is at the bottom of the list because it’s the least harmful in the sense that it’s a fun song with cheerleader-esque chanting and the vibe of a spiteful teen clinging onto her crush. THIS IS NOT HATE, I LOVE HER SONGS (TW: suicide, domestic abuse and a few other things! Be careful if you get triggered by these things because I don’t want to upset anyone!) Though there are possibly other songs that are also quite dark, these are the ones I could narrow it down to. I’m back with another list of Lana’s songs I was thinking about which of Lana’s songs are her darkest or have the darkest lyrics/story and these, in my opinion, are the top 10.
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