Everyone Knows I Had Some Trouble...

Ten months, it's been. 

A looong ten months. 

Was it worth the wait?

Hell, yeah! 

 

White Feather Hawk Tail Deer Hunter 

Lana Del Rey

It'd be very remiss of me, not to say selfish, to keep this to myself a moment longer than absolutely necessary. So here we are. No need to thank me.

Only minutes after it landed, a YouTube commenter going by K65_mdd had the lyrics. Or a version of them, anyway.

I thank them for that. And, again, share.

[Verse 1]
He's my white feather hawk tail deer hunter
Likes to keep me cool in the hot breeze summer
Likes to push me on this green John Deere mower
I know you wish you had a man like him, it's such a bummer
When I met him, like an arrow
Like a bird in the heart, like a sparrow
In the dark (Snap), snap, crackle, pop, tch
We're a match, he's just in my bone marrow

[Pre-Chorus]
Everyone knows I had some trouble
But I'm home for the summer
And I wanted to know if I could use your stove
To cook somethin' up for you 'cause you

[Chorus]
Positively voodoo, everything that you do
Did you know exactly how magical you are?
Whoopsie-daisy, yoo-hoo, yelling, "I love you"
Out to my white feather hawk tail deer hunter
Take my hand off the stove, hun
Yelling, "Yoo-hoo, dinner's almost done"
Whoopsie-daisy, yoo-hoo, I imagine you do
Know how absolutely wonderful that you are

[Verse 2]
He's my white feather hawk tail deer hunter
Before I met him, Moorea boat over three summers
Now it's a ribbon 'round my neck, and it's cherry-colored
I've just been breaking, waitin' on a spirit hunter
I got a nicotine patch for the summer
Yeah, I'm a ghost, doesn't mean I feel nothin'
Put it on my ass, no tan lines, summer
I love my daddy, of course we're still together

[Pre-Chorus]
Everyone knows I had some trouble
But it's been three summers
I know it's strange to see me cooking
For my husband

[Chorus]
Positively voodoo, everything that you do
Did you know exactly how magical you are?
Whoopsie-daisy, yoo-hoo, yelling, "I love you"
Out to my white feather hawk tail deer hunter
Take my hand off the stove, hun
Yelling, "Yoo-hoo, dinner's almost done"
Whoopsie-daisy, yoo-hoo, I imagine you do
Know how absolutely bad I'm with an oven

[Bridge]
Whoopsie-daisy, do you think it's okay?
Whoopsie-daisy, deposition cocaine
Yikes, like, maybe should've saved for a friend
Stick with baking, Daisy's very chagrined
Whoopsie-daisy, do you think it's okay?
Whoopsie-daisy, deposition cocaine
Yikes, like, maybe should've saved for a friend
Stick with baking, Daisy's very chagrined

[Chorus]
(He's my white feather hawk tail deer hunter)
Positively voodoo, everything that you do
(He's my white feather hawk tail deer hunter)
Did you know exactly how magical you are?
(He's my white feather hawk tail deer hunter)
Whoopsie-daisy, yoo-hoo, yelling, "I love you"
(I know you wish you had a man like him, it's such a bummer)
Out to my white feather hawk tail deer hunter
(He's my white feather hawk tail deer hunter)
Positively voodoo, everything that you do
(He's my white feather hawk tail deer hunter)
Did you know exactly how magical you are?
(He's my white feather hawk tail deer hunter)
Whoopsie-daisy, yoo-hoo, yelling, "I love you"
Out to my white feather hawk tail deer hunter 

Couple of lines I'm not wholly convinced by there. More than a couple, actually. I'm not at all sure she says "deposition cocaine" for a start. What would that even mean? I think it's something about fish cooking but the exact wording eludes me. And as someone points out, "Before I met him, Moorea boat over three summers" is almost certainly "Before I met him, wore a bow over three summers"

I'm also pretty sure it's "Take my hand off the saucepan" not "Take my hand of the stove, hun" or at least I hope it is because the implications are very different and disturbing if not. 

"Daisy's very chagrined" seems unlikely, too, but neither am I convinced by the suggested alternative reading “Stick with picking daisies for instagram”. I imagine we'll get an official lyric video at some point, at which time all will be revealed.

My favorite lines? Oh, I'm so glad you asked!

"Everyone knows I had some trouble
But I'm home for the summer"

That's a whole novel, right there.

Also 

"Whoopsie-daisy, yoo-hoo, I imagine you do
Know how absolutely bad I am with an oven"

Again, the subtext is positively tectonic.

Whatever the exact words, the vibe is unmistakable. Doesn't look much like we'll be getting that country album any more, does it?

There are lots of comments in the thread already, going on about Lana's new Southern Gothic era and well she said she was a witch didn't she? (She did.) all of which is very fair. Surprisingly, no-one yet seems to have made the obvious Kate Bush comparisons but then Lana fans have a vested interest in her uniqueness. 

As a fan myself, I don't necessarily believe she needs to be unique, although frequently she has been. She can just be better than everyone else. Which she is. All the time.

Lana, of course, is a cultural polymath, anyway. I'm certain the whole "Kate Bush doing Indian Love Call" feel of the piece is entirely intentional. You take the parts and put them together in a new way and that's how it's done.

And thank god for that. I was saying only the other day how I tend to drift away if new work doesn't draw me back in. As they say now, we are so back! 

Now, when's that damn album coming?