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This is a section dedicated to every single place mentioned or referenced in her songs throughout her career, the list will keep updating constantly as there are many references to add considering the number of songs and poems released or unreleased.

LDRUSAReferences

Map of the United States of America showing every state Lana Del Rey has mentioned or made references of in her poems, released or unreleased songs and media; as of March 2021.


America[]

Songs from Lana Del Ray A.K.A. Lizzy Grant

Songs from Lust For Life (2017):

Songs from Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019):

  • 09. "California"
    • "I'll pick you up, if you come back to America"

Songs from Blue Banisters (2021):

Stand-alone singles:

Unreleased songs:

American (Used as noun or adjective):[]

Songs from Born to Die (2012):

  • 08. "Radio"
    • "American dreams came true somehow"
  • 13. "Without You"
    • "Lived on the dark side of the American dream"

Songs from Paradise (2012):

  • 02. "American"
    • "Like an American"
  • 03. "Cola"
    • "I fall asleep in an American flag"

Songs from Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019):

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

  • 14. "Bare Feet On Linoleum"
    • "Would standing in front of Mount Rushmore feel like the Great American homecoming I never had?"

Songs from Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023):

  • 04. "A&W"
    • "This is the experience of being an American whore"

Unreleased songs:

United States of America (USA)[]

Unreleased songs:

Alabama[]

Unreleased songs:

Florence[]

Songs from Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023):

California[]

Songs from Ultraviolence (2014):

Songs from Honeymoon (2015):

  • 04. "God Knows I Tried"
    • "Put on that 'Hotel California"
  • 06. "Freak"
    • "Baby, if you wanna leave, come to California, be a freak like me, too"

Songs from Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019):

  • 04. "Fuck It, I Love You"
    • "So I moved to California, but it's just a state of mind"
    • "You moved to California, but it's just a state of mind"
    • "It turns out California's more than just a state of mind"
    • "California dreaming, got my money on my mind"
  • 08. "How to Disappear"
    • "The California sun and the movie stars"
  • 09. "California"
    • "If you come back to California, you should just hit me up"

Songs from Blue Banisters (2021):

Songs from Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023):

Unreleased songs:

  • "Angels Forever, Forever Angels"
    • "You are California proud"
  • "California"
    • "California, land that I love, I'm not turning back"
    • "California, now that I'm home I'm not going back"
    • "California, I'm coming for ya"
  • "Earthquakes"
    • "Earthquakes happen regularly down in 'California'"
    • "Earthquakes happen naturally down in 'California'"

Agoura Hills[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Arcadia[]

Songs from Blue Banisters (2021):

  • 03. "Arcadia"
    • "In Arcadia, Arcadia"

Bel Air[]

Songs from Paradise (2012):

  • 08. "Bel Air"
    • "Roses, Bel Air, take me there"

Songs from The Great Gatsby: Music from Baz Luhrmann's Film (2013):

Unreleased songs:

Bellevue[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Unreleased songs:

  • "Bellevue"
    • "Baby, in Bellevue I had no one"

Benedict Canyon[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Berkeley[]

Songs from Chemtrails over the Country Club (2021):

Beverly Hills[]

Bella Drive[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Big Sur[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Brentwood[]

Songs from Chemtrails over the Country Club (2021):

Songs from Blue Banisters (2021):

  • 01. "Text Book"
    • "And I thought I found it in Brentwood"

Calabasas[]

Songs from Chemtrails over the Country Club (2021):


Chateau Marmont[]

Songs from Born to Die (2012):

  • 02. "Off to the Races"
    • "Likes to watch me in the glass room, bathroom, Chateau Marmont"

Unreleased songs:

  • "Elvis"
    • "Chateau Marmont, memories fading, hope is very far"
  • "She's Not Me"
    • "When you take her to Chateau Marmont"
  • "Heavy Hitter"
    • "I was lounging at the Chateau Marmont"

Camarillo[]

Songs from Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023):

Fresno[]

Stand-alone singles:

Genesee Ave.[]

Songs from Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd (2023):

  • 03. "Sweet"
  • "If I'm not there, come to my house on Genesee"

Hollywood[]

Songs from Honeymoon (2015):

Songs from Beauty Behind the Madness (2015) by The Weeknd:

Songs from Lust for Life (2017):

  • 02. "Lust for Life" (feat. The Weeknd)
    • "Climb up the 'H' of the Hollywood sign"
    • "Dance on the 'H' of the Hollywood sign"

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

  • 08. "Tessa DiPietro"
    • "Jim Morrison at the Hollywood Bowl, 1968, check date"

Unreleased songs:

  • "Breaking My Heart"
    • "But what do you expect from a Hollywood lifestyle?"
  • "Daytona Meth"
    • "He's like a Hollywood movie"
  • "Dum Dum"
    • "Mansfield ringer from the Hollywood silver screen"
  • "Hit It & Run"
    • "Hollywood and New York, Mister Major"
  • "Hollywood"
    • "In the glamorous and green old part of Hollywood"
    • "In Hollywood I'm alive again"
  • "Hollywood's Dead"
    • "Hollywood's dead, Elvis is cryin'"
  • "Sweetheart"
    • "I'm just a small-town girl dreaming Hollywood dreams"

Hollywood and Vine[]

Songs from Paradise (2012):

  • 09. "Burning Desire"
    • "Cruising down the street on Hollywood and Vine for you, baby"

Songs from Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019):

Unreleased songs:

Hollywood Hills[]

Songs from Ultraviolence (2014):

Larchmont Village[]

Songs from Blue Banisters (album) (2021):

Los Angeles (L.A.)[]

Songs from Sirens (2006):

Songs from Born to Die (2012):

  • 02. "Off to the Races"
    • "He doesn't mind I have a L.A. crass way about me"
  • 08. "Radio"
    • "Now I'm in L.A. and it's paradise"

Songs from Paradise (2012):

Songs from Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019):

Songs from Chemtrails over the Country Club (2021):

Songs from Blue Banisters (2021):

  • 03. "Arcadia"
    • "My body is a map of L.A."

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

  • 01. "LA Who Am I to Love You"
    • "L.A., I'm from nowhere, who am I to love you?"
    • "L.A., I've got nothing, who am I to love you when I'm feeling this way and I've got nothing to offer?"
    • "L.A., not quite the city that never sleeps"
    • "L.A., I'm a dreamer, but I'm from nowhere, who am I to dream?"
    • "L.A., I'm upset, I have complaints, listen to me"
    • "L.A., I sold my life rights for a big checks and I'm upset"
    • "L.A., I picked San Francisco because the man who doesn't love me lives there"
    • "L.A., I'm pathetic, but so are you, can I come home now?"
    • "L.A., I know I'm bad, but I have nowhere else to go, can I come home now?"
    • "I'm lonely, L.A., can I come home now?"
    • "L.A., who am I to need you when I've needed so much"
  • 13. "Paradise Is Very Fragile"
    • "Back in Los Angeles, things aren't looking much better"

Unreleased songs:

  • "Afraid"
    • "I'm going back to Santa Monica, New York to L.A."
  • "Because of You"
    • "On the streets of L.A., where the future is now"
    • "I was a young girl, selfish and wild like a fire in L.A."
  • "Dum Dum"
    • "I'm a star child, big smile, living in L.A."
  • "Never Let Me Go"
    • "L.A's gonna look real good"
Beverly Center[]

Songs from Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023):

  • 03. "Sweet"
  • "If you want some basic bitch, go to the Beverly Center and find her"
Dodger Stadium[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Griffith Park[]

Songs from Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023):

  • 03. "Sweet"
  • "Stars in my eyes, hiking up Griffith"
Reseda[]

Songs from Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023):

Laurel Canyon[]

Songs from Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019):

Unreleased songs:

Long Beach[]

Songs from Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019):

  • 12. "Bartender"
    • "Head to Long Beach to Newport by your side"

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Songs from Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023):

  • 03. "Sweet"
    • "Do you wanna run marathons in Long Beach by the sea?"

Ocean Boulevard[]

Songs from Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023):

Lake Arrowhead[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Marina Del Rey[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

  • 07. "SportCruiser"
    • "Take sailing lessons in the vibrant bay of Marina Del Rey"

Mar Vista[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

  • 11. "Happy"
    • "I live in a tudor house under the freeway in Mar Vista by the beach"

Malibu[]

Songs from Lust For Life (2017):

  • 16. "Get Free"
    • The song was originally titled "Malibu".

Songs from Norman Fucking Rockwell (2019):

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Unreleased songs:

  • "Backfire"
    • "Back to Malibu in our trailer park for two"

Pacific Palisades[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Palmdale[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Pico Boulevard[]

Songs from Honeymoon (2015):

  • 01. "Honeymoon"
    • "Pico Boulevard in your used little bullet car if we choose"

Rosemead[]

Songs from Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023):

  • 04. "A&W"
    • "I say I live in Rosemead, really, I'm at the Ramada"

San Francisco[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

  • 01. "LA Who Am I to Love You"
    • "I left my city for San Francisco"
    • "L.A, I picked San Francisco because the man who doesn't love me lives there"

Stand-alone singles:

Golden Gate Bridge[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Songs from Chemtrails over the Country Club (2021):

San Gabriel[]

Songs from Blue Banisters (2021)

  • 03. "Arcadia"
    • "My curves, San Gabriel all day"

San Pedro[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

  • 05. "Salamander"
    • "Run you out of my blood to San Pedro"

Santa Catalina Island ('Catalina')[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Santa Clarita[]

Songs from Blue Banisters (2021):

  • 02. "Blue Banisters"
    • "I'm scared of the Santa Clarita fires, I wish that it would rain"

Santa Monica[]

Songs from Paradise (2012):

  • 09. "Burning Desire"
    • "Santa Monica, I'm racing in the lights for you, baby"

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

  • 07. "SportCruiser"
    • "At the precious little strip off of Santa Monica and Bundy"

Unreleased songs:

  • "Afraid"
    • "I'm going back to Santa Monica, New York to L.A."
  • "Hot Hot Hot"
    • "You are brawlin' hard, Santa Monica Boulevard."
  • "She's Not Me"
    • "Cruisin' down Santa Monica Boulevard."
Melrose Avenue[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Mullholland Drive[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

San Vicente Boulevard[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Sugarfish Restaurant[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Skid Row[]

Songs from Paradise (2012):

  • 03. "Cola"
    • "I wear my diamonds on Skid Row"

Sierra Madre[]

Songs from Blue Banisters (2021):

  • 03. "Arcadia"
    • "My chest, the Sierra Madre"

Sonoma[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church (Old Paul's)[]

Songs from Born to Die (2012):

  • 04. "Video Games"
    • "Watching all our friends fall in and out of Old Paul's"

Sunset and Vine[]

Songs from Ultraviolence (2014):

  • 10. "Old Money"
    • "Red racing cars, Sunset and Vine"

Sunset Boulevard[]

Songs from Chemtrails over the Country Club (2021):

  • 05. "Wild at Heart"
    • "To see your pretty pictures in Sunset Boulevard"
Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine (Paramahansa Yogananda Realization Center)[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Topanga[]

Songs from Lust For Life (2017):

  • 14. "Heroin"
    • "Topanga's hot tonight"

Songs from Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019):

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Venice[]

Songs from Norman Fucking Rockwell (2019):

Songs from Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023):

  • 10. "Paris, Texas" (feat. SYML)
    • "It seems everything's the same (Venice, California)"
    • "When you're home, you're home (Venice, California)"

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Ventura (San Buenaventura)[]

Songs from Lust For Life (2017):

  • 03. "13 Beaches"
    • "Past Ventura, and lenses plenty in the white sunshine"
Delilah Restaurant[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Wilshire Boulevard[]

Songs from Honeymoon (2015):

  • 01. "Honeymoon"
    • "We could cruise to the blues, Wilshire Boulevard if we choose

Yosemite[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

  • 11. "Happy"
    • "I love the great sequoias of Yosemite"

Songs from Chemtrails over the Country Club (2021):

Colorado[]

Songs from Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023)

  • 09. "Fingertips"
    • "Who hung himself real high / In the National Park sky, it's a shame and I'm crying right now"

Florida[]

Songs from Ultraviolence (2014):

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Unreleased songs:

Floridian (Used as noun or adjective)[]

Songs from Ultraviolence (2014):

Miami[]

Songs from Ultraviolence (2014):

  • 14. "Florida Kilos"
    • "We could get high in Miami, ooh"
    • "People never die in Miami, ooh"

Songs from Honeymoon (2015):

  • 10. "Salvatore"
    • "All the lights in Miami begin to gleam"

Orlando[]

Songs from Chemtrails over the Country Club (2021):

  • 01. "White Dress"
    • "Down in Orlando, I was only nineteen"

Pensacola[]

Songs from Sirens (2006):

  • 12. "Aviation"
    • "Do you think I'm crazy 'cause I'm going to Pensacola?"

Sarasota[]

Songs from Sirens (2006):

Tallahassee[]

Unreleased songs:

Hawaii[]

Songs from Norman Fucking Rockwell (2019):

Hawaiian (Used as noun or adjective)[]

Unreleased songs:

  • "Hawaiian Tropic"
    • "Hawaiian tropic, dark, and a bottle of jack in the Cadillac"
    • "Your red Hawaiian shirt and your hair jet black"

Waimea Bay[]

Unreleased songs:

  • "Wayamaya"
    • "He was a big wave surfer livin' down by Waimea Bay"

Waikiki Cove[]

Unreleased songs:

  • "Wayamaya"
    • "Waikiki Cove, Waikiki Cove"
    • "Waikiki, Waikiki, Waikiki cove"

Louisiana[]

Songs from Chemtrails over the Country Club (2021):

Detroit[]

Songs from Ultraviolence (2014):

  • 13. "Guns and Roses"
    • "Took your bike to Detroit, back to the promised land"

Mississippi[]

Songs from Lana Del Ray A.K.A. Lizzy Grant (2010):

Nebraska[]

Songs from Chemtrails over the Country Club (2021):

Lincoln[]

Songs from Chemtrails over the Country Club (2021):

Nevada[]

Songs from Paradise (2012):

  • 07. "Yayo"
    • "It only takes two hours to Nevada"

Las Vegas[]

Songs from Born to Die (2012):

  • 02. "Off to the Races"
    • "He doesn't mind I have a Las Vegas past"
    • "To Las Vegas chaos, Casino Oasis"

Songs from Ultraviolence (2014):

Unreleased songs:

New Jersey[]

Unreleased songs:

Asbury Park[]

Unreleased songs:

  • "Run Motorcycle"
    • "One time last year, I went up to Asbury Park by the ocean"

Jersey Shore[]

Unreleased songs:

New Mexico[]

Roadrunner Cafe[]

Songs from Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023):

  • 08. "Kintsugi"
    • "I'm at the Roadrunner Café"

Unreleased song:

New York[]

Songs from Born to Die (2012):

Songs from Ultraviolence (2014):

Songs from Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019):

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Stand alone singles:

Unreleased songs:

  • "Afraid"
    • "I'm going back to Santa Monica, New York to L.A."

Brooklyn[]

Songs from Ultraviolence (2014):

Songs from Blue Banisters (2021):

Unreleased songs:

  • "Ghetto Baby"
    • "Brooklyn move my soul like this"
  • "So Legit"
    • "What happened to Brooklyn, what happened to New York?"
    • "What happened to Brooklyn, the last frontier?"
  • "True Love on the Side"
    • "Everybody knows they call me Brooklyn baby"

Coney Island[]

Songs from Lana Del Ray A.K.A. Lizzy Grant (2010):

Songs from Born to Die (2012):

Unreleased songs:

  • "Methamphetamines"
    • "For then a dream, why don't we go to Coney Island?"
  • "TV in Black & White"
    • "Remember Coney Island and how we wade into the water till the waves turned blue"

East Hampton[]

Unreleased songs:

Fordham Road[]

Unreleased songs:

  • "Fordham Road"
    • "Thirty blocks to Fordham Road, that's a bad neighborhood"

Greenwich Village[]

Unreleased songs:

Genesee[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Songs from Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023):

  • 03. "Sweet"
  • "If I'm not there, comе to my house on Genesee"

Hudson River[]

Stand-alone singles:

Lake Placid[]

Stand-alone singles:

Unreleased songs:

Rainbow Room (Cipriani's Basement)[]

Songs from Born to Die (2012):

Rikers Island[]

Songs from Born to Die (2012):

  • 02. "Off to the Races"
    • Facing time against at Rikers Island and I won't get out"

The Hamptons[]

Songs from Born to Die (2012):

Ticonderoga[]

Unreleased songs:

  • "Coca Cola"
    • "Jimmy's the king of Ticonderoga"

Wall Street[]

Unreleased songs:

  • "Boarding School"
    • "You're crashing on Wall Street while I'm blowing up as a singer"

Williamsburg[]

Unreleased songs:

  • "So Legit"
    • "Wish they could have seen you when we booed you off in Williamsburg"

Oklahoma[]

Songs from Sirens (2006):

Songs from Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019):

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

Songs from Blue Banisters (album) (2021):

Arkansas[]

Songs from Chemtrails over the Country Club (2021):

  • 03. "Tulsa Jesus Freak"
    • "We should go back to Arkansas"
    • "Cause down in Arkansas, the stores are all closed"

Tulsa[]

Songs from Chemtrails over the Country Club (2021):

South Dakota[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

  • 14. "Bare Feet on Linoleum"
    • "Wondering where to go from here, to Sonoma where the fires have just left? South Dakota?"

Mount Rushmore[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

  • 14. "Bare Feet on Linoleum"
    • "Would standing in front of Mount Rushmore feel like the Great American homecoming I never had?

Rhode Island[]

Songs from Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023)

  • 09. "Fingertips"
    • "Give me a mausoleum in Rhode Island with Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, and Dave"
    • "swim with the fishes / That he caught on Rhode Island beaches"

Texas[]

Paris[]

Songs from Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023)

Utah[]

Songs from Lana Del Ray AKA Lizzy Grant (2010):

Vermont[]

Unreleased songs:

  • "Elvis"
    • "Slow molasses from the state of Vermont"

Colombia[]

Colombian (Used as noun or adjective)[]

Songs from Ultraviolence (2014):

Medellín[]

Songs from Honeymoon (2015):

  • 10. "Salvatore"
    • "I was so wrong not to tell your Medellín tangerine dreams"

Cuba[]

Cubano (Used as noun or adjective)[]

Songs from Ultraviolence (2014):

  • 05. "West Coast"
    • "He's crazy y cubano, como yo, my love"

Havana Maria[]

Unreleased songs:

  • "Madly"
    • "I was off the coast of Havana Maria"

Mexico[]

Unreleased songs:

Monterrey[]

Unreleased songs:

  • "Heavy Hitter"
    • "Queen of Monterrey"
  • "Beach Boys"
    • "Betty-Lou and Lana Ray dreamin' about Monterrey"
    • "Maybe in a month or two (Monterrey)"
    • "Monterrey, Monterrey, Monterrey"

Tijuana[]

Unreleased songs:

  • "Dum Dum"
    • "We're making robberies from Tijuana to the shore"
  • "The Devil"
    • "On the island of Tijuana"

Asia[]

Japan[]

Tokyo[]

Songs from Lana Del Ray A.K.A. Lizzy Grant (2010):

Vietnam[]

Saigon[]

Songs from Born to Die (2012):

Songs from Ultraviolence (2014):

  • 5. "West Coast"
    • "Their silver starlets, their Queens of Saigons"

Europe[]

Greece[]

Mount Olympus[]

Poems from Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass (2020):

  • 05. "Salamander"
    • "Like Mount Olympus, where Zeus sent Athena and the rest of the immortals play"

Greek (Used as noun or adjective)[]

Songs from Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023):

France[]

French (Used as noun or adjective)[]

Songs from Ultraviolence (2014):

  • 11. "The Other Woman"
    • "The other woman enchants her clothes with French perfume"

Unreleased songs:

  • "Ice Cream"
  • "French vanilla ice cream, making you scream"

Eiffel Tower[]

Unreleased songs:

Paris[]

Unreleased songs:

  • "Take Me to Paris"
    • "Take me to Paris, let's go there and never look back. Paris, we can be crazy like that"
    • Our time in Paris, take me to Yves St. Laurent. Paris, make out in a dark restaurant"

Sacré-Cœur Church[]

Unreleased songs:

St. Tropez[]

Unreleased songs:

Versailles[]

Unreleased songs:

Italy[]

Italian (Used as noun or adjective)[]

Unreleased songs:

Monaco[]

Songs from Paradise (2012):

Songs from Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023):

  • 09. "Fingertips"
    • "I couldn't handle it, I was in Monaco"

United Kingdom[]

London[]

Unreleased songs:

  • "Hit It & Run"
    • "London town, you’ll watch out while I'm singing"

Blackpool[]

Unreleased songs:

  • "1949"
    • "Daddy likes Blackpool Pleasure Beach and road stops"

Spain[]

Songs from Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd (2023):

Switzerland[]

Unreleased songs:

  • "1949"
    • "Me, I like the Swiss Alps souvenir gift shop"