Radio (song)

Lana Del Rey
Writer(s)	Lana Del Rey Justin Parker
Producer(s)	Emile Haynie Justin Parker
Length	3:34 3:31 (Demo)
From
Single(s)	"Video Games" "Born to Die" "Blue Jeans" "Summertime Sadness" "National Anthem" "Dark Paradise"
Promotional single(s)	"Off to the Races" "Carmen"
Born to Die track listing
"Dark Paradise"
"Carmen"

"Radio" (also known as "Cinnamon") is a song by Lana Del Rey released on her second studio album, Born to Die. It was written by Del Rey and Justin Parker, who also produced the song alongside Emile Haynie.

Cross references

• The "American dream" is also referenced in "Damn You" and "Without You", and many others.
• "Cinnamon" is also referred to in "Summer of Sam"
• The lyric "sing it to me" is referenced on the song "Beautiful Player"

Official versions

• Album version – 3:34
• Demo version – 3:31
• Instrumental version – 3:33
• Clean version – 3:34

Lyrics

Not even they can stop me now
Boy I'd be flying overhead
Their heavy words can't bring me down
Boy I've been raised from the dead

No one even knows how hard life was
I don't even think about it now because
I've finally found you
Now sing it to me

Now my life is sweet like cinnamon
Like a fucking dream I'm living in
Baby love me 'cause I'm playing on the radio
(how do you like me now?)

Pick me up and take me like a vitamin
'Cause my body's sweet like sugar venom oh yeah
Baby love me 'cause I'm playing on the radio
(how do you like me now?)

American dreams came true somehow
I swore I'd chase 'em till I was dead
I heard the streets were paved with gold
That's what my father said

No one even knows what life was like
Now I'm in L.A. and it's paradise
I've finally found you
Now sing it to me

Now my life is sweet like cinnamon
Like a fucking dream I'm living in
Baby love me 'cause I'm playing on the radio
(how do you like me now?)

Pick me up and take me like a vitamin
'Cause my body's sweet like sugar venom oh yeah
Baby love me 'cause I'm playing on the radio
(how do you like me now?)

On the radio, on the radio
Sweet like cinnamon
Like a fucking dream I'm living in
Baby love me 'cause I'm playing on the radio
(how do you like me now?)
On the radio, on the radio
Sweet like cinnamon
Like a fucking dream I'm living in
I've finally found you
Now sing it to me

Now my life is sweet like cinnamon
Like a fucking dream I'm living in
Baby love me 'cause I'm playing on the radio
(how do you like me now?)

Pick me up and take me like a vitamin
'Cause my body's sweet like sugar venom oh yeah
Baby love me 'cause I'm playing on the radio
(how do you like me now?)

Now sing it to me

Now my life is sweet like cinnamon
Like a fucking dream I'm living in
Baby love me 'cause I'm playing on the radio
(how do you like me now?)

Pick me up and take me like a vitamin
'Cause my body's sweet like sugar venom oh yeah
Baby love me 'cause I'm playing on the radio
(how do you like me now?)

Credits

• Keyboards — Emile Haynie
• Guitar — Emile Haynie
• Drums — Emile Haynie
• Strings arrangement and conducting — Larry Gold
• Strings assisting — Steve Tirpak
• Mixing — Dan Grech Marguerat for 365 Artists
• Assistant mixing — Duncan Fuller