Music from Lana Del Rey has always been filled with deeper meanings and messages.

Although she’s released a lot of new music since her 2021 album Blue Banisters, it’s still important to analyze some of her most thought-provoking lyrics as time passes by.

“Blue Banisters“ is the title track of the album – and it is incredibly emotional.

Unfortunately, a lot of listeners miss the point of the song when listening to it on a surface level.

An analysis of “Blue Banisters“ by Lana Del Rey

Lana opens up the song by reminiscing about a moment from her past. The moment in question is a photo of Lana sitting on a John Deere, which is a tractor-trailer.

The photo was snapped in Oklahoma touching on the fact that Lana spent plenty of time in Oklahoma while she was dating her ex-boyfriend, Sean Larkin. Sean works in Tulsa, Oklahoma as a police officer.

The next verse mentions the dried-up flowers sitting on top of her dresser. The dry flowers symbolize the fact that they’ve been dead in their vase, sitting there for a while.

It’s possible they were given to her by Sean and she wasn’t ready to throw them away just yet.

In the pre-chorus of the song, Lana talks about getting advice from Nikki Lane about relationships.

Nikki tells her that it’s difficult dating men when you are a highly successful woman. Women who are ambitious and strong-willed often intimidate men.

Nikki says, “Most men don’t want a woman with a legacy, it’s of age.” Lana admits it scares her that finding a man she’ll truly be happy with will be so challenging.

In the chorus of the song, Lana describes a man who came into her life spewing empty promises her way.

He told her he’d come back every May to help paint her banisters blue. He told her he’d fix her weathervane. He told her he’d give her children. He told her he’d take away her pain.

It’s obvious that the man she’s singing about didn’t hold true to his word.

Further analyzing “Blue Banisters” by Lana Del Rey

In verse three, Lana says, “There’s a hole that’s in my heart. All my women try to heal. They’re doing a good job, convincing me that it’s not real.”

Here, she’s describing the way she turns to the woman in her life for comfort and solace as she goes through the heart-wrenching defeat of another man letting her down.

But ultimately, she’s saying that while the women in her life can be there for her as much as they possibly can, the hole in her heart remains.

In verse four, Lana continues discussing the man who broke her heart. She describes him as a man that’s in her past, yet still right here.

It seems she is describing a past lover who’s no longer physically in her life, yet still takes up emotional space in her heart.

Later on in the song, she talks about what happens when May finally comes around. May was supposed to be the month the man she loved would be by her side.

Instead, she sings about her sisters coming to paint her banisters green. Since the man let her down by not being there for her, she no longer wants her banisters to remain blue.

Right after that, she sings, “My blue banisters, gray.”

It’s as if she’s saying that even though the women in her life have come to cheer her up by painting her banisters green, the banisters still look gray because she’s seeing them through the lens of heartbroken eyes.

At the conclusion of the song, Lana sings, “Summer comes, winter goes. Spring I skip. God knows.”

It’s her way of saying time will continue passing by, no matter how much pain she’s in. And God knows how much pain she’s in.

This is one of Lana’s most vulnerable and tragic songs of all time. Taking the time to break apart the lyrics is the best way to understand her viewpoint.

The sadness she feels from being let down by every man she loves is clear and apparent in this song.

As a reminder, her ex-boyfriend, Sean married a woman named Carey Cadieux in 2022.

From what it seems, there was definitely some overlap going on. It appears he was dating Lana and Carey at the same time at one point.

During a live performance of “Chemtrails Over the Country Club,” Lana freestyled some lyrics to throw shade at Sean.

She said, “He’s born in December and got married when we were still together. He got married when we were in couple’s therapy together, sometimes I wonder what his wife would think if she knew.”