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Riff: Lana Del Rey – “Cruel World”

Jun 17, 2014

I got your bible and your gun/And you love to party and have fun/And I love your women and all of your heroin/And I’m so happy now that you’re gone

from Cruel World lyrics by Lana Del Ray

A ghost roaming the halls of paradise lost, condemned to its own earthly indulgences for – by the sounds of it – eternity. The acoustic plucks resonate like they were born in a cathedral adding just the right amount of metaphysical crazy to help soundtrack a conversation between this world and theĀ next.

Riff by Jeff Min

Jeff Min is a Chicago-based writer at SONGLYRICS. His work has appeared in the Chicago Sun-Times, Hi-Fructose, Wax Poetics, SLAM, and HOOP.

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