Love
Look at you kids with your vintage music
Comin' through satellites while cruisin'
You're part of the past, but now you're the future
Signals crossing can get confusing
Comin' through satellites while cruisin'
You're part of the past, but now you're the future
Signals crossing can get confusing
It's enough just to make you feel crazy, crazy, crazy
Sometimes, it's enough just to make you feel crazy
Sometimes, it's enough just to make you feel crazy
You get ready, you get all dressed up
To go nowhere in particular
Back to work or the coffee shop
Doesn't matter cause it's enough
To be young and in love
To be young and in love
I can't write about Banks (see here), and not write about Lana Del Rey, particularly when she comes out with a new single like "Love." Oh, Lana, I loved you when I was discouraged from listening to your music, (maybe I was listening obsessively when I was not feeling very well mentally, I'll admit that) because your songs can be very haunting and depressing. I'm already a depressed gal, so I can see why moody, low tempo songs and fatalistic lyrics might feed the darkness I experience. Ah, but when I heard Lana's new song, I felt something hopeful. I shan't be chastised for listening to "Love", because it's optimistic and... Lovely.
Look at you kids, you know you're the coolest
The world is yours and you can't refuse it
Seen so much, you could get the blues
But that don't mean that you should abuse it
The world is yours and you can't refuse it
Seen so much, you could get the blues
But that don't mean that you should abuse it
Though it's enough just to make you go crazy, crazy, crazy
I know, it's enough just to make you go crazy, crazy, crazy
But you get ready, you get all dressed up
To go nowhere in particular
Back to work or the coffee shop
It don't matter because it's enough
To be young and in love
To be young and in love
Don't worry, baby
Don't worry, baby
When I heard this song, before I saw the official video, I could imagine my college years, and a collage of our experiences... stumbling and laughing on our way home from the bars, sitting in the sun on the green between classes talking about everything except our classes, and being... young.
Just kids, we were.
It was perfect, when I think back, although I wouldn't want to relive the experience. At the time, we were very innocent, and we all loved each other. We drank too much. We danced every weekend. We ate too much pizza. We overslept. We stayed up too late. We kissed. We talked about what was present and relevant to our lives at that moment. We lived in every moment, right then. We didn't talk about the past... We didn't really. We could tell our friends something once if it was important, and it was never brought up again. It was in the past, and we were always living in the future: What were we doing that night, that weekend? We lived in the moment.
Maybe that's what all 18-22-year-old kids do. Maybe it's the only time any of us get to live that way? It's funny that maybe college is the escape when so many young people believe they are free if they graduate from high school and don't have to go to school any longer if they don't want to. But, it's the independence, and freedom of youth we didn't fully explore, living at home, while we attended high school. Those four years at UVM my friends and I were absolutely irresponsible; yet in the midst of all our hangovers, mistakes, fun, and learning, we didn't even know we were figuring out how to be grown-ups at the same time. We didn't think about that. We didn't need to. We were "grown up," but so very young... and the responsibilities?
Just kids, we were.
It was perfect, when I think back, although I wouldn't want to relive the experience. At the time, we were very innocent, and we all loved each other. We drank too much. We danced every weekend. We ate too much pizza. We overslept. We stayed up too late. We kissed. We talked about what was present and relevant to our lives at that moment. We lived in every moment, right then. We didn't talk about the past... We didn't really. We could tell our friends something once if it was important, and it was never brought up again. It was in the past, and we were always living in the future: What were we doing that night, that weekend? We lived in the moment.
Maybe that's what all 18-22-year-old kids do. Maybe it's the only time any of us get to live that way? It's funny that maybe college is the escape when so many young people believe they are free if they graduate from high school and don't have to go to school any longer if they don't want to. But, it's the independence, and freedom of youth we didn't fully explore, living at home, while we attended high school. Those four years at UVM my friends and I were absolutely irresponsible; yet in the midst of all our hangovers, mistakes, fun, and learning, we didn't even know we were figuring out how to be grown-ups at the same time. We didn't think about that. We didn't need to. We were "grown up," but so very young... and the responsibilities?
Pass your classes.
Don't skip lecture hall classes, (even if attendance wasn't taken), to go shopping. Pop quiz. Always.
Don't skip lecture hall classes, (even if attendance wasn't taken), to go shopping. Pop quiz. Always.
Don't party too much.
Appreciate your education.
Don't get 3:00am noise violations...
Don't get 3:00am noise violations...
We did. We were alive. We were alive the entire time.
And it's enough just to make me go crazy, crazy, crazy
It's enough just to make me go crazy, crazy, crazy
I get ready, I get all dressed up
To go nowhere in particular
It doesn't matter if I'm not enough
For the future or the things to come
'Cause I'm young and in love
I'm young and in love
Don't worry, baby
Don't worry, baby
To go nowhere in particular
It doesn't matter if I'm not enough
For the future or the things to come
'Cause I'm young and in love
I'm young and in love
Don't worry, baby
Don't worry, baby
Don't worry, baby
-Lana Del Rey, 2017
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