young and beautiful - lana del rey // slowed {with lyrics}

Song meaning:
From the soundtrack for the 2013 film version of The Great Gatsby. The song was also featured in the second trailer released for the film, and used throughout the film as a motif of Gatsby and Daisy’s relationship.
'I've seen the world, done it all had my cake now' - Lana is reminding us how successful she has been, and tells us that her career has now peaked. She has travelled the world, and much like how the end of a dessert signifies the end of a meal, her having seen practically all of the world signifies her career coming to an end. This line is also in her song Lolita, in which she sings "I want my cake and I wanna eat it too," which comes from “you can’t have your cake and eat it too” which is a popular figure of speech, meaning “you can’t have best of both worlds - you can’t have it all”. But Lana has. This can be represented from Daisy’s point of view (Great Gatsby), where she's “seen the world” and “done it all.” Her reference saying, “You can’t have your cake and eat it” implies that there was something lost in “doing it all.”
'Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I got nothing but my aching soul? I know you will, I know you will, I know that you will Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful?' - Daisy portrays narcissistic tendencies, caring for nothing more than herself. Realising that her worth correlates with her beauty, Daisy doesn’t want a man who will no longer love her after she begins to age and her good looks deteriorate. In the novel, her husband is embroiled in an affair with his mistress, and she takes up Gatsby, who reminds her of her youthful past.
'Channelling angels in the new age now' - Referring to the New Age movement. Popular in today’s day and age. If enough chakras are opened, it’s believed you can channel spirits and travel through different dimensions. Daisy herself says of her daughter: ‘I hope she’ll be a fool-that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’ And here again it seems like in this quote Daisy implies a woman should know what to ‘channel’ and what part to ‘play’ in society, just like she hopes her daughter will play the role of a fool if she is not already born one.
'Dear Lord, when I get to heaven please, let me bring my man' - Lana is confident that she'll go to heaven, she will still have her man by her side. Because of all the time they have already spent together, and all the time she believes they will spend together in the future, she wants to be with him forever in God’s paradise. Of course, Lana believes that we were 'Born To Die'. It could also be a reference to her song 'Dark Paradise', in which she worries that when she dies and go to Heaven, her deceased boyfriend won’t be there awaiting her arrival. Alternatively, you can view this as a very dark statement that she’d like her boyfriend to die with her, instead of surviving after her departure. It’s almost the opposite of the themes explored in the old 50s hit “Where Oh Where Can My Baby Be”. It could also be the simple plea/request of a woman who is so deeply in love with her man, that regardless of whether or not he is a good man, deserved of heaven, she wishes to take him with her for the sake of his afterlife. Tying in with the Christian imagery, Lana may be referencing to the Bible which in Matthew 22:30 describes a new heaven where there is no marriage/ relationships. Lana could therefore be pleading with the Lord to make an exception and allow their relationship as she believe’s it is so special.
'He's my sun, he makes me shine like diamonds' - The sun (Any source of light actually) is what makes diamonds shine, thanks to a process called refraction. The reflection of light is what makes the diamonds so beautiful and clear. Just like the sun with diamonds, the one she loves makes her shine. Diamonds sparkle and given the right amount of light can almost blind you like the sun. Here she alludes to his beauty as well as hers and how deeply in love she is with Gatsby. Assuming that Lana is singing in the voice of Daisy Buchanen, much of Daisy seems ethereal, divine and rich. The idea that Nick narrates Daisy’s beauty creates the impression that she shines. When coupled with Gatsby’s intense fixation on Daisy that eventually draws Tom’s attention, it is almost like Gatsby’s love for her causes her to sparkle. This plays perfectly with the fact that much of Daisy’s beauty is in fact built on Gatsby’s ideological concept of her. Without which Daisy would just be an ageing rich girl with a cheating husband.
Source: Genius
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This song makes me feel safe :)

[@Unkown_Meli]

Someday in the future, maybe in 10 years I will look back to this and remember how amazing this moment was.

[@FollowerofDuck]

makes me feel like my person is forever :)

[@hinatababe97]

Magnifique. Slowed to perfection

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u killed it 😍🥰😚

[@Unkown_Meli]

Thank you so much! I love the background, everything

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Perfect 💜

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Beautiful 💖😌

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l like it

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w.angel17 and I love it

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2:54

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