So I saw that a couple of you posted the lyrics to this song. Now I'm going to try and decipher this shiz.
First off, the song is not abut Princess Diana, it's about her comparing herself to Princess Diana. That how her mind works. Stefani thinks she's as important and monumental as Princess Di. More like monumental narcissism. Surprise. She has also called Diana a martyr for fame and has said that she thinks she will go like Princess Diana. Honestly, I wonder if she's confused Diana with Marilyn Monroe.
VERSE:
Leave the coffin open when I go
Leave my pearls and lipstick on so everybody knows
Pretty will be the photograph I leave
Laying down on famous knives so everybody sees
She's singing about her own death. She wants her body to look like "Lady Gaga" not Stefani so everyone will know she's really gone. All she leaves behind are memories.
Laying down on knives (back stabbing) - she's telling us she knows there are people who are not real friends and have or will stab her in the back and the pain is too much.
Bleach out all all the dark (the act of suicide, taking away all that is dark in her life)
I'll swallow each peroxide shot
Someone I'll know could love and save me from myself
Maybe I'll just clean the shit of these fancy shoes (preparing herself for death)
I'll be a Princess Di and die with you (She's as big as Di, and when she dies it will be just as gutting. All of the people who love her will symbolically die when she does....all the the same time as her. Barf)
CHORUS:
I wish that I was strong (she's not, she insecure but we all know that)
I wish that I was wrong (wrong about fame perhaps?)
I wish that I could cope (she can't cope. It's not what she thought it would be like)
But I took pills and left a note (she commits suicide)
VERSE:
I'm hungry from an anorexic heart (her heart is hungry for love)
I've been trying to tell you how I feel (obvious)
But was never very smart (no shit)
I'm wrapped in silks made for Egyptian queens
I'll do it in the swimming pool
So everybody sees (she wants to go out in grandeur. Leave with a bang. She wants everyone to see what they "did to her")
Bleach out all the dark (bleach is a metaphor for suicide, which will end her darkness)
I'll swallow each peroxide shot
Volumes I know will love and save me from myself (this I don't get. Volumes of what?)
Maybe I'll just clean the shit off of these fancy shoes (preparing herself for death)
I'll be a Princess Di and die with you (dies like Princess Di and when she dies, off of you will die too - metaphorically)
POST-CHORUS:
Princess die
I want to see her cry (thinks of herself as a princess and she saying that lots of people want to see her cry. Want to see her die)
Princess die
Princess die
We want to watch her cry
Princess die
REPEAT CHORUS
BRIDGE:
But I took pills and left a note (yes, we know)
I wish that I could go in my rich boyfriend's limo
Right after he proposed with a 16-carat stone wrapped in rose gold
With the paparazzi all swarming around
In my Louis Vuiton white buttoned down
Oh it's not that deep (looks like she had it all but all that 'stuff' is superficial)
So bob your head for another dead blonde (she's going to be another dead blonde like Marilyn, etc)
Who's real prince is in heaven (Jesus)
She just wants to sleep (sleep is freedom. She can't take this life anymore)
Volumes I know will love and save me from myself (this I don't get. Volumes of what?)
Maybe I'll just clean the shit off of these fancy shoes (preparing herself for death)
I'll be a Princess Di and die with you (dies like Princess Di and when she dies, off of you will die too - metaphorically)
POST-CHORUS:
Princess die
I want to see her cry (thinks of herself as a princess and she saying that lots of people want to see her cry. Want to see her die)
Princess die
Princess die
We want to watch her cry
Princess die
REPEAT CHORUS
BRIDGE:
But I took pills and left a note (yes, we know)
I wish that I could go in my rich boyfriend's limo
Right after he proposed with a 16-carat stone wrapped in rose gold
With the paparazzi all swarming around
In my Louis Vuiton white buttoned down
Oh it's not that deep (looks like she had it all but all that 'stuff' is superficial)
So bob your head for another dead blonde (she's going to be another dead blonde like Marilyn, etc)
Who's real prince is in heaven (Jesus)
She just wants to sleep (sleep is freedom. She can't take this life anymore)
OUTRO:
The final act of life will be my own hands to do (She will say when she dies and how. No one else will dictate it)
I'll be a Princess and die with you
Applaud. Approve.
Now, given that she's trying to empower youth, I ask why the fuck is she singing about death at her own hands? And why she is victimizing herself and wallowing in self pity as if it's something glamorous? Kind of a stupid and irresponsible message isn't it. Then again look who we're talking about.
Well, if that's what you want Gaga, stop blabbering about it and go do it.
Applaud. Approve.
Now, given that she's trying to empower youth, I ask why the fuck is she singing about death at her own hands? And why she is victimizing herself and wallowing in self pity as if it's something glamorous? Kind of a stupid and irresponsible message isn't it. Then again look who we're talking about.
Well, if that's what you want Gaga, stop blabbering about it and go do it.
And the song is very Lana Del Rey. Not a copy of any of her songs but a similar style and melody.
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