If You Lie Down with Me (song)

Lana Del Rey
Writer(s)	Lana Del Rey Barrie-James O'Neill Drew Erickson
Producer(s)	Lana Del Rey Drew Erickson
Recorded	2020-2021
Length	4:25
From
Blue Banisters track listing
"Black Bathing Suit"
"Beautiful"

"If You Lie Down with Me" is a song by Lana Del Rey, from her eighth studio album and seventh major-label studio album Blue Banisters. It was originally written in 2013 with her then-boyfriend Barrie-James O'Neill for Ultraviolence, it also features writing credits from Drew Erickson.

Background

Though the song was originally written in 2013, it is presumed that the song was reworked and re-recorded for Blue Banisters.

Cross-references

• Lying down is mentioned in "Fucked My Way Up To The Top", "Joshy & I", "Ben" and also in the background vocals of "Ultraviolence".
• The 4th of July is also mentioned in "You Can Be the Boss", and the song of the same name.
• The chant in the chorus is similar to that of "American" and "I Talk to Jesus".
• A truck is also mentioned in "Bartender", and "Violets for Roses".
• The phrase "we both know" also appears in "Honeymoon" and "Diet Mountain Dew".
• "Dance me all around the room" is also used in "Smarty".
• "Spinning like a ballerina" is also used in "Queen of Disaster".

Lyrics

Put your red boots on, baby, giddy up
Baby, won't you dance? Baby, gets away
Treat me nice, talk to me with that whiskey breath
Twirl me twice, I'll treat you like a holiday

And don't say you're over me
When we both know that you ain't
Don't say you're over me
Babe, it's already too late
Just do what you do best with me

Dance me all around the room
Spin me like a ballerina, super high
Dance me all around the moon
Light me up like the Fourth of July

Once, twice, three times the guy
I ever thought I would meet
So, don't say you're over me
When we both know that you lie
If you lie down, lie next to me

La la la-la la, la la la lie
If you lie down, lie next to me
La la la-la la, la la la lie
When you lie down, lie next to me

Get your jacket on, be a gentleman
Get into your truck and pick me up at eight
'Cause we were built for the long haul, freight train,
Burnt by fire without ya like a stowaway

And don't say you're over me
When they all know that you ain't
If you lay down, lie next to me

Dance me all around the room
Spin me like a ballerina, super high
Dance me all around the moon
Like six times, till I'm sick and I cry

Once, twice, three times the guy
I ever thought I would meet
So, don't say you're over me
When they all know that you're lyin'
If you lie down, lie next to me

La la la-la la, la la la lie
(You lie, you lie)
If you lie down, lie next to me
La la la-la la, la la la lie
(You lie, you lie)
When you lie down, lie next to me

Credits

Personnel

• Lana Del Rey — songwriting, production, vocals, horn arrangement
• Drew Erickson — songwriting, production, mixing, piano, horn arrangement, drums, drum programming, bass, Moog bass, Prophet, mellotron
• Barrie-James O'Neill — songwriting, additional production
• Michael Harris — engineering, mixing
• Dean Reid — acoustic guitar, engineering, mixing
• Jon Sher — assistant engineering
• Ben Fletcher — assistant engineering
• Adam Ayan — mastering
• Blake Cooper — tuba
• Dan Fornero — trumpets
• Dan Rosenboom — trumpets
• Wayne Bergeron — trumpets
• Loren Humphrey — drums