Songfacts®:

• During the August 3-4, 2019 weekend, the US, was left reeling at the deaths of 32 citizens in two separate mass shootings. Lana Del Rey wrote this song as a direct response to the atrocities, which took place in El Paso, Texas, and in Dayton, Ohio. It finds her dreaming of a better America where there is gun control and mass shootings are not an issue.
  
  I'm still looking for my own version of America
  One without the gun, where the flag can freely fly
  No bombs in the sky
  Only fireworks when you and I collide
  It's just a dream I had in mind
• Del Rey wrote the song with frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff ("Mariners Apartment Complex," "Hope Is a Dangerous Thing For a Woman Like Me to Have - But I Have it").
  
  Del Rey explained in a video post that after hearing about the back-to-back mass shootings, she returned to Los Angeles from Montecito, California, where she'd been hanging out with her brother. On arriving in LA, the singer asked Antonoff if he could help her write a song she had on her mind. Del Rey said the two shootings affected her "on a cellular level," so she wanted to come up with a response.
• Del Rey previously touched on the topic of a safer America with her Lust For Life tracks "Coachella - Woodstock In My Mind" and "When the World Was at War We Kept Dancing."