Blue Jeans

Album: Born To Die (2012)
Charted: 32
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  • Blue jeans, white shirt
    Walked into the room, you know you made my eyes burn
    It was like James Dean, for sure
    You're so fresh to death and sick as ca-cancer
    You were sorta punk rock, I grew up on hip hop
    But you fit me better than my favorite sweater, and I know
    Gangster, I know
    Gangster, I know
    Gangster, gangster, gangster

    Gangster, gangster, gangster, gangster
    Gangster, gangster, gangster (gangster)

    Let's go
    Tell me what bad boys do
    I'm a bad girl, if you into that one too
    My American dream in jeans all blue
    Keep it cool like crushed ice cubes
    It's you felonious in a foreign coupe
    In the blue Range across my view
    Met a crush, like my kind too
    Ain't 'nough said about his moves
    A real tough one, sometimes two
    Let you fine about lifetime sunshine boo (say you'll remember)
    Bandanas and bow ties, whips and handcuffs
    Tied down, the thug life living like gangsters
    Both wanna die, love living in danger
    Bonnie to his Clyde hold it down like an anchor (say you'll remember)
    Hardcore vibe, attracted more to his anger
    Passion like fever, hot like Jamaica
    Real rude boy, no problem, Malaya
    Money on his mind 'bout getting his paper
    Truth be told he's lied down with his flamer
    Really like his flavor, wanna slow dance with the devil
    With-with the look of an angel
    Took a small chance with a rebel now my flesh is amazing
    Now we shooting the lasers while laughin' at haters
    Gangsters not bred I make them
    Gangsters not dead I raise 'em (gangster)

    Gangsters not dead
    Gangsters not bred I make them
    G-gangsters not dead I raise 'em

    Say you'll remember
    (Gang, g-gang, g-gang)
    Say you'll remember
    (Gang, g-gang, g-gang)

    (Gangster)
    (Gangster)

    (Gangster)

    Say you'll remember Writer/s: Daniel Law Heath, Elizabeth Woolridge Grant, Emile Haynie
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 1

  • Aj from Orange County, CaThe recurring sample in the song is Rick James shouting the word "shout" in an amusingly slurred sounding way (he sounds almost like he is saying "surf!") The sample is from a 1981 live performance of "Mary Jane." This sample has also been used by Kanye West and other performers, and is a nod to Lana's love of hip-hop. For those who wrote her off as a live performer after her much derided SNL performance, please check out Lana's performance of "Video Games" and "Blue Jeans" from the 2012 iTunes Festival. Lana can deliver the goods live :)
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