Lana Del Rey - Yayo Lyrics Meaning

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Feb 1st 2013!⃝

this song hits home to me, or at least the way i interpret it to be.
first of all for those of you who dont know, "yeyo/yayo" is slang for cocaine.
now time to let you know my interpretation.

"i like the snake on your tatto, i like the ivy and the ink blue" to me isnt a literal person, even though she is putting it in our minds of a bad ass dude. but i think she is talking about the drug, and how its bad and how it makes you feel, free and amazing. she likes that. so this whole song is about cocaine, but is refering to it as a guy.

"you have to take me right now from this dark trailor park life now" to me she is talking about how she feels, and she needs the drug to get out of the dark depressing times and to feel a sense of euphoria.

"put me onto your black motorcycle, 50s baby doll dress for my i do. it only takes 2 hours to nevada, i wear your sparkle you call me your mama." is kind of a cluster fuck of things. i think she is saying that she wants the drug, and that she loves it so much, not only for the feeling of euphoria or taking her out of the dark but because it gives her sense of freedom. and since she is refering to the drug as a guy, she is willing to marry the drug due to her fondness of it. she is selling her soul to the guy(drug) by marrying it and nevada is a place where she can do that due to the vegas night life and drug scene.

"let me put on a show for you daddy, let me put on a show. let me put on a show for you tiger, let me put on a show" is now talking about her life in vegas, and due to her high demand for the drug, she will do whatever she needs to in order to get the drug or money for the drug. i believe she is talking about either self prostition or working at a stripclub.

"i need you like a baby when i hold you. like a druggie like i told you. yayo, yeah you, yayo" means that she needs the drug, she craves the drug at all times, she is addicted to the drug. cocaine, yeah you cocaine.

"put me onto your black motorcycle, 50s baby doll dress for my i do. it only takes 2 hours to nevada, i wear your sparkle you call me your mama." like i said this is kind of a cluster fuck of things. i think she is saying that she wants the drug, and that she loves it so much, not only for the feeling of euphoria or taking her out of the dark but because it gives her sense of freedom. and since she is refering to the drug as a guy, she is willing to marry the drug due to her fondness of it. she is selling her soul to the guy(drug) by marrying it and nevada is a place where she can do that due to the vegas night life and drug scene. she sold her soul for the drug.

"let me put on a show for you daddy, let me put on a show. let me put on a show for you tiger, let me put on a show"like i said she is now talking about her life in vegas, and due to her high demand for the drug, she will do whatever she needs to in order to get the drug or money for the drug. i believe she is talking about either self prostition or working at a stripclub.

"hello heaven, you are a tunnel lined with yellow lights on a dark night" to me is self explanitory. she knows that the drug is bad, it can cause some serious damage. but she still uses because again the way it makes her feel. she knows the consiquences but it takes her away from everything making her feel good and easing the pain of her twisted life.

"put me onto your black motorcycle, 50s baby doll dress for my i do. it only takes 2 hours to nevada, i wear your sparkle you call me your mama." like i said this is kind of a cluster fuck of things. i think she is saying that she wants the drug, and that she loves it so much, not only for the feeling of euphoria or taking her out of the dark but because it gives her sense of freedom. and since she is refering to the drug as a guy, she is willing to marry the drug due to her fondness of it. she is selling her soul to the guy(drug) by marrying it and nevada is a place where she can do that due to the vegas night life and drug scene. she sold her soul for the drug.
"let me put on a show for you daddy, let me put on a show. let me put on a show for you tiger, let me put on a show" like i said this is now talking about her life in vegas, and due to her high demand for the drug, she will do whatever she needs to in order to get the drug or money for the drug. i believe she is talking about either self prostition or working at a stripclub.

with that being said that is what i believe this song truly means. it is a rememberance of her past, when she was "young and wild" willing to do what she thinks she has to do in order to get drug.
i see it this way because i was too addicted to cocaine beggining at the age of 14. i wanted a way out and the drug provided me with that and i was willing to do what i had to do for the drug, and i would still use even i knew the things i could do to me. but i no longer do drugs and have been sober for 8 months. Yay Me!

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