the piano in the beginning sounds so so beautiful and calming it sounds like how i imagine it would sound if raindrops made music as they fell on to the floor from the sky
[Verse 1] Lets keep it simple, babe Don't make me complicated Don't tell me to be glad when I'm sad I really hate that I try not to be bad He's interested, he's holding me back If I could be more like you, I would But I can't, and I'm glad about that [Pre-Chorus] What if someone had asked Picasso not to be sad? Never known who he was or the man he'd become There would be no blue period Let me run with the wolves, let me do what I do Let me show you how sadness can turn into happiness I can turn blue into something [Chorus] Beautiful, beautiful Beautiful like you Beautiful, beautiful Beautiful like you [Verse 2] Let's keep it simple, babe We can't afford to change it Don't turn me into somethin' I'm not There's no way to sustain it I try not to hold back It seems either way it makes you mad So I'll be who I'll be if you think that that's cool Then I'll take you back [Pre-Chorus] What if someone had asked Picasso not to be sad? Never known who he was or the man he'd become There would be no blue period Let me run with the wolves, let me do what I do Let me show you how sadness can turn into happiness I can turn blue into something [Chorus] Beautiful, beautiful Beautiful like you Beautiful, beautiful Beautiful like you [Chorus] Beautiful, beautiful Beautiful like you Beautiful, beautiful Beautiful like you
This song is one of Lana’s hugest statements, she says that sadness is one of the things she will carry until the end of her life and is something she will have even in a relationship cause her being is filled with longing and nostalgia, but she takes all of those things that make her sad and makes something about them by turning them into something beautiful such as her art and the way she perceives the person who she is singing this song to. She just wants to be understood cause out of sadness, there have been beautiful things in this world including Picasso’s work. Just beautiful.
Her songs feel like the end of Everything. Someone once said 'she sings like she lived a thousand years'. And I thank God I live in the age of Lana, and also, of Hans Zimmer. These two make musical works that reach into the soul and remind us of something transcendent.
To me, Beautiful is the part 2 of Black Beauty: Black Beauty she talks about trying to understand the sadness of her lover and Lana feels hopeless because no matter how hard she tries, she can’t convince her lover that life is beautiful. However in Beautiful, she’s inspired by the beauty of her lover and is more confident that she can show them the happier sides of life Black Beauty: oh what can I do? Life is beautiful but you don’t have a clue Also black beauty: Darling you can’t let everything seem so dark blue Beautiful: let me show you how sadness can turn into happiness, I can turn blue into something, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful like you I love the growth❤️
Wow, this song made me feel like life was still worth living, and that things actually might be okay. It helped me realize I should probably stick around a little longer on this earth before I do anything permanent.
No artist has had such an impact on my life like Lana has. I remember listening to her on the bus to my first day of high school nearly 10 years ago, now I'm an adult going out into the world and she has been there every step of the way with her music. At every important moment since then there has always been a lana album I could lean on to get me through and I hope there will be for many years to come. So much love for Lana, forever💘
I'm going through a pretty dark time in my life now and this song has just hit me so differently Lana. I love all your songs but I think BB is gonna help me get through it a little easier 💚
Crazy how Lana put out NFR and I was like how this is such an ambitious body of work it'll probably be a while before she releases anything again and yet here she is dropping 2 more masterpieces just months apart
“what if someone had asked picasso not to be sad? never known who he was or the man he'd become, there would be no blue period…” we understand “blue” to represent not just a state of depression, but one that yields inspiration. on “nectar of the gods,” the singer admits that she gets “wild and fuckin’ crazy like the color blue,” suggesting inspiration morphing into impulsiveness. to further confound the motif, across the two distinct choruses of the title track, del rey describes a man who promises to paint her banisters blue and enliven her dreary existence. later, after “a baby’s on the way,” her sisters come to paint her banisters “green and gray,” as if to highlight the man’s empty promise. (credit Slant Magazine)
I thought blue banisters was a metaphor for her past scars, that man causing her scars blue (which means it's still fresh) and later on turned green and gray (it's healing, but won't fade easily) -- I just read this somewhere first and so this is what I believed Blue Banisters meant. But seeing your comment, I've had another perspective.
In this song she’s saying without Sean and her breaking up this album wouldn’t have been! This album is mostly talking about the break up with Sean then the two last sounds are lullabies one written for Angela her future daughter and the second to chuck and her baby!
Tears flowing from a grown-assed man long in the tooth, once again. This is what she does to me. The beauty of melancholia?! Lana has it in bucketloads.
I've been listening to this album every day since and cried at least once every other day to it. Her voice and songs touch in so many ways through pain, sadness, happiness, relief the list can go on 😅
The different range of emotions I've felt while listening to this album. Its beautiful. It gives off this nostalgia untimely period. It radiates something. I just hate how I cant put my finger on what it is.
Maybe that's the beauty of it is it's not so easy to pin point what the album radiates. It leaves you wondering and wanting more since it's hard to have expectations for something that is hard to define to begin with.
I can never say this is my favourite song on the album because they're all my favourites but this is my favourite moment on the album. I relate so much. Too much. But I too can turn sadness into happiness and turn blue into something beautiful. I try to. Poets feel doomed but we're blessed. Love you.
Listened to this song nonstop. I'm learning to not care and let go, thanks to this song. I learn to love myself at my ugliest because I am "Beautiful". 🔥❤️
Lana’s voice is magic, feel like I’m out of this earth listening to her song. It’s healing and relaxing. There’s no word to express my feeling. Thank you Lana❤️
Essa música vibra muito do que a Lana nos transmite,mostra beleza na tristeza,é na dor e tristeza que surge da gente algo brilhante e fascinante,acredito nisso,é desumano ser feliz o tempo todo...por tanto "Beautiful" minha faixa favorita♥️🎶
Can you, please, write what is she singing about in this timing? I'm not native English speaker, so I didn't catch words. So it's interesting for me what these lines is about. Please, correct my gramar mistkes if you can
@Переклади пісень від Ukrainian Metalcore for a few years Picasso was very depressed and only painted in shades of blue. It’s referred to as his blue period era
una de las mejores canciones del disco, muy positiva y con un estribillo realmente potente y estimulante del que no quieres despegarte, además del hermoso y dulce acompañamiento del piano y su forma de cantar ese BEAUTIFUL...
How can a human being create such magic 🪄 How can she be real? omg I have cried all through listening it’s crazy !! She sings like she lives in my soul why does her song resonate so much with me it’s freaking scary 🥺♥️ Geez am happy to be alive to have experienced Lana del rey ♥️😭
Okay not me here sobbing because Lana literally opened my heart and read me like a hymn. People like us, the sad ones, really needed this song. Thank you, Lana.
This has got to be one her most meaningful, self-describing songs. And it’s perfect to listen to as an artist myself because I’m always being told to not let the emotions get the better of me but if I didn’t I wouldn’t have all the talent and praise and outlet I have.
❗Lyrics❗ [Verse 1] Lets keep it simple, babe Don't make me complicated Don't tell me to be glad when I'm sad I really hate that I try not to be bad He's interested, he's holding me back If I could be more like you, I would But I can't, and I'm glad about that [Pre-Chorus] What if someone had asked Picasso not to be sad? Never known who he was or the man he'd become There would be no blue period Let me run with the wolves, let me do what I do Let me show you how sadness can turn into happiness I can turn blue into something [Chorus] Beautiful, beautiful Beautiful like you Beautiful, beautiful Beautiful like you [Verse 2] Let's keep it simple, babe We can't afford to change it Don't turn me into somethin' I'm not There's no way to sustain it I try not to hold back It seems either way it makes you mad So I'll be who I'll be if you think that that's cool Then I'll take you back [Pre-Chorus] What if someone had asked Picasso not to be sad? Never known who he was or the man he'd become There would be no blue period Let me run with the wolves, let me do what I do Let me show you how sadness can turn into happiness I can turn blue into something [Chorus] Beautiful, beautiful Beautiful like you Beautiful, beautiful Beautiful like you [Chorus] Beautiful, beautiful Beautiful like you Beautiful, beautiful Beautiful like you
