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  1. Feb 2023
    1. 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 willWill you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful?Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful?Will you still love me when I'm not young and beautiful?

      this is the songs climax where she is saying the same thing over and over again, but this time it bruptly stops.it sounds like a silent reminder linking back to a small voice at the back of her head questioning the loyalty of her lover. This emphasizes on her fears and doubts about this relationship

    2. He's my sun, he makes me shine like diamonds

      "He’s my sun, he makes me shine like diamonds” describes him as a source of light and hope into her life, and how he is the only source of happiness for her. This shows how she lives and breathes for him, and needs him around so she is confident about herself, the significance of how she cannot live without him, a deeper layer to her rather obsessive love.

    3. All that grace, all that bodyAll that face makes me wanna party

      Lana admires and craves her lover, both physically and mentally. “Oh that grace, oh that body” shows how she is in awe and worship of her lover, like a “grace”, or higher deity, linking back to when she first met him where she felt like he was a prize . “Oh that face makes me wanna party” This may or may not be literal, but it does suggest that his presence makes her feel alive. The repetition of “Oh” adds an awestruck tone, an exclamation of his perfection.

    4. Dear Lord, when I get to HeavenPlease let me bring my manWhen he comes, tell me that you'll let him inFather, tell me if you can

      Lanas thinking into the future when she dies, asking for God to accept her and her lover in together, so that they will never be separated from each other and be together for eternity. The use of the words “please tell me you can”, “please let me bring my man”, makes her sound like she’s pleading, begging to be with him forever. In a way, this makes her sound desperate and possessive of her lover. This also shows how she is using every way possible to be with him, even praying to the Gods, how she loves him so much she wants to be with him even in the afterlife. “When he comes tell me that you’ll let him," "Father tell me if you can” indicating that she would be awaiting him, while she’s already alone after life on earth, asking permission that he may join her so they are together forever, almost literally. This reflects a rather eerie and extreme side to her love, which seems creepy from the outside, but make you feel her extreme dedication to this relationship.

    5. 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 willWill you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful?

      the continous repetiton of the same questions and her answering her own questions to reassure herself

    6. And all the ways I got to knowYour pretty face and electric soul

      "all the ways" nods to how she spent time with her lover romantically. "and electric soul" shows how her lover gave her a shock of an experience when she was with him,it also means that there was an instant connection and a spark that lit their relationship. this also links backs to how she wants her lover to love her the same way she loves him.

    7. Hot summer days, rock and rollThe way you'd play for me at your show

      this shows how lana met her lover at a summer music festival, her lover was a man with more power than her at that point impressing her with the music.especially at a summer music festival the atmosphere is totally different where its easy to romanticise everything which links to how she might feel like her lover doesnt love her for who she is but just for her looks

    8. Channeling angels in the new age now

      “Channeling angels in” suggests that her beauty is attracting “angels”, whom are probably handsome nice men. “New age now” suggests that she has entered a new era in her life, which is a relationship. This is an introduction to her relationship with this man, this links back to how she feels like there was a different lifestyle when she fell in love with this man.

    9. I've seen the world, lit it up as my stage now

      “I’ve seen the world, lit it up as my stage now”. She’s made it a platform where she could fully control it, and portrayed herself as a woman, confident and mature and responsible. this also shows how shes grown as a person greatly from the previous times as she was reminicising

    10. The way you'd play with me like a child

      this also shows that Lana misses the past of her having a good time partying around doing stuff for the fun of it,'like a child' refers to how a child has no responsibilites or having a single care for anything in the world. and her being refered as a child shows how her lover took immense care of her,as if she was delicare as a child.

    11. I've seen the world, done it all, had my cake nowDiamonds, brilliant, and Bel Air now

      These lines shows that Lana [persona] has seen the peaks of what the world can offer, living a extravagant lifestyle, living like its the last day on earth. But no one can live these types of lifestyles forever. “had my cake now” this shows that she knows she only has one chance of living such lifestyle and has used the chance to live like a princess and now shes acknowledging things wont be the same thereafter. and the word "cake" refers to her sweet romance she had with her lover and normally cakes are the last to be eaten in parties and event mirroring her relationship with her lover

    12. Will you still love me when I'm no longer beautiful

      this shows the constant need of her having to ask trying to reassure herself wether if she is being loved for the right things

    13. I know you will, I know you will, I know that you will

      this lyrics are what lana says to to comfort herself,the constant repetition shows how she has to say it multiple times to herself for her to believe it, which shows how she does not truly believe herself hence she does not believe her own lover

    14. 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?

      lana feels insecure of whats going to happen in the future as there no where else to go other than down when your at the top."when i'm no longer young and beautiful" shows how she is having self effacing thoughts thinking if her lover truly loves her for who she is and not just for her beauty."Nothing but my aching soul" shows how lana thinks when she ages she will become less beautiful and be less valuable as a person for her lover to love her, Lana wants her lover to be a deep person mentally and love her for her soul.there is also repetition of 'will you still love me" which adds on to how she is insecure of her man loving her in the future if things go south.

    15. Hot summer nights, mid-JulyWhen you and I were forever wildThe crazy days, city lights

      This shows that Lana was reminiscing of her enjoyable past, and good time with her lover, this shows how she knows things have changed and she and her significant other has to be more responsible.