"What happened when I left you" is a poem released by Lana Del Rey from her first poetry book Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass.
Background[]
On August 13, 2019, Del Rey shared the full poem on her Instagram account.[1]
Cross-references[]
- Reference to "Bellevue".
- "The end" is also mentioned in "When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing".
- The colour green is also mentioned in "Trash Magic" and "Beautiful People Beautiful Problems".
- The phrase "My life is sweet" also appears in "Radio" and "Without You"
- The colour blue is mentioned in many of Del Rey's songs, some of which are "Wild on You", "Old Money" and "God Knows I Tried".
- The colour yellow is also mentioned in "God Knows I Tried".
- Fire is also mentioned in "West Coast", "Freak", "Sad Girl" and "Off to the Races", indirectly mentioned in "Angels Forever".
- Lemonade is also mentioned in "Music to Watch Boys To", "Ultraviolence", "Trash Magic", "Dance for Money" and the unleaked song "Lemonade Motorcycle Heaven".
- "Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind" is a quote from the 1717 poem 'Eloisa to Abelard' by Alexander Pope.
- Bellevue is a neighborhood in Santa Rosa, California.
- 'Zimmermann' is a designer clothing chain store that sells dresses and shoes. There is one store on the Pacific Palisades, a place referenced in the poem "SportCruiser".
Poem[]
[Stanza 1]
Perfect petals punctuate the fabrics yellow blue
silver platters with strawberries strewn across the room
[Stanza 2]
In Zimmerman with sandals on one summer dress to choose
[Stanza 3]
Three girls
eyes rolled
loud laughter
dust specs lit by afternoon
[Stanza 4]
My life is sweet like lemonade now there's no bitter fruit
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
no thought of you
[Stanza 5]
My thoughts have changed
my voice is higher
now I'm over you
[Stanza 6]
No flickering in my head movies
projected in Bellevue
[Stanza 7]
Because I captured the mood of my wish fulfilled
and sailed to Xanadu
[Stanza 8]
The grief that came in waves that rolled I navigated through
[Stanza 9]
The fire from my wish as wind to future trip to Malibu
[Stanza 10]
now everything I have is perfect
nothing much to do
[Stanza 11]
just perfect florals
green embroidered chairs
one dress to choose