“Where we goin’, Lana?” he’d ask, not looking at her, a smirk playing on his lips.
“Easy, baby,” he’d said, his voice a low, gravelly drawl that sounded like the wrong side of the tracks. “You’re too pretty to get scraped up.” Lana Del Rey Born To Die - The Paradise Edition
“To the end of the world,” she’d reply, and she wasn’t joking. “Where we goin’, Lana
She wrote more songs. Sad, cinematic things about truck stops and faded American flags, about love as a kind of national tragedy. She’d sing them into her phone, her voice a whisper, a prayer to no one. She wrote more songs
One night, she found his gun. A small, silver revolver in the nightstand drawer, tucked beneath a stack of faded Polaroids. Other girls. Other smiles. All with that same sad, reckless gleam in their eyes. She didn’t scream. She didn’t cry. She just held the cold metal in her palm and felt a strange, calm kinship with it. It was beautiful. It was dangerous. It was a perfect, terrible solution to a problem that had no answer.
She should have laughed. She should have walked away. But Lana had never been good at salvation. She was an expert in falling.