Lana Del Rey: High By The Beach Meaning

Song Released: 2015

High By The Beach Lyrics

Boy, look at you, looking at me
I know you know how I feel
Loving you is hard, being here is harder
You take the wheel
I don't wanna do this anymore
It's so surreal, I can't survive
If this is all that's real

All I wanna do is get high...

1. anonymous

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   Aug 31st 2018 !⃝

   I think this song is also about paparazzis, like the 13 beaches. She just wants to be alone, have some fun at the beach but the paparazzis keep finding her.
   "Now you're just another one of my problems
   Because you got out of hand
   We won't survive we're sinking into the sand"
   
   In my opinion she is referring to the fame, she likes to be famous but sometimes she need privacy, thats why she says " all i wanna do is get high by the beach"
2. anonymous

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   Dec 29th 2017 !⃝

   This song reminds me a lot of a situationI went through. It shows her reminiscing of a old love she used to have and how she can't be with him anymore but he still keeps and eye on her through the helicopter she breaks it to him that he can't give her what she needs which is stability he's just a bad boy and not a man who can take care of her. She wanted to be away and high by the beach because she can't have the sex and true love she desires the bad boy couldn't provide her those things so hen she breaks free and says she'll do it on her own. Don't need your money money. Meaning he can't do that for her but she is able herself to get what she wants away in a move house by the beach. Wants to get High since she can't have her bad boy love and she gets back at that bad boy by blowing him away with the gun. And in the end says you can start over through revenge so she probably got away and proved that she could have everything she wanted. Away from that other guy and got rid of him. In had the same thing happen to me I went to australai and got Hogg by the beach in a big house and cut loose my bad boy ex
3. anonymous

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   Oct 23rd 2017 !⃝

   I identify a lot with this story. She talks about a girl living an apparently perfect life in her mansion with a seaview. This is the first impression. And the love she lives is a mirror of it. Apparently perfect on the outside, dark and creepy on the inside. We realize this during the last scenes, when she descends the stairs to the basement. The perfect home gets creepier. And her love as well. Another impression it gives me is of deep loneliness. She is a girl who has it all, materially. But a lot of emptyness inside. She may be married, lonely every day in her perfect house, empty of emotions, connecting only with the infinite sea. So, when he comes into her life she starts to feel again the emotion she lacked for a long time. She thinks she can leave it all behind: I don't need your money-probably speaks about her husband. She believed in her new love and could have left everything behind for him, all her accomodated life. Until he turned out to be a lie, a bad boy and only another problem for her. Her emptyness is breathtaking. We feel her depressed before her new love arrived in her life and anxious for him to knock at her door after-the hellicopter is very symbolic. It is dark, but tempting and it scares her but it gives her life, until it sucks all the life from her and she decides to shut it down. She chooses to get back to her previous mildly depressed state, her loneliness in symbiosis with the sea, instead of a love that breaks her apart and doesn't give her anything back. The last scene is very symbolic: the letter carried away by the waves just says that everything she believed in was a mere illusion. She killed her love with revenge and fire and the water now washes away everything: the passion, the pain, the anger and she can be herself again, free and high by the sea. Because is far better beeing lonely and free than in a Bad destructive love. She saw it coming from the beginning, never believed in his lies. As we see her house big and somptous but quite old and creepy right from the start.
4. anonymous

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   Dec 16th 2015 !⃝

   She wanted more than the immature guy she fell for in great part because he didn't let her be (he took the weel). She wanted more than that, she wanted her space, the guy didn't understand what and suggested he could be more challenging by being a bad boy, but that is not what she wants, that's just immature. He can´t let her go, and she want's to brake the connection, because she needs to breathe. She only wanted to be happy in the relationship (high on the beach), and in the end she simply wanted to get away from that situation where she loves but feels suffocated in a dead end.
   It's how I see it for me it's absolutely genial work, both music and lyrics. I've known some work of Lana del Rey, but this music really caught my attention... She's a really deep, generous and strong artist. She has some of the strongest, and most intense songs I've heard, WOW! Thank you Lana!

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