If you’re going through a break up, you might wanna turn on some Lana Del Rey music because she knows how to put words to pain in the most eloquent way ever. These are five lot of songs that I would definitely add to a Break Up playlist if I was going through heartache.

Get Free

Starting off strong with “Get Free,” which is all about getting free from a toxic and abusive relationship. Lana opens the song dedicating it to women who were never able to get free of their toxic relationships and claims she’s putting this song out in honor of those women. She sings, “Sometimes it feels like I’ve got a war in my mind. I wanna get off, but I keep riding the ride. I never really noticed that I had to decide. To play someone’s game, or live my own life. And now I do. I wanna move. Out of the black. Into the blue.” Moving out of the black is Lana leaving that man and moving into the blue is Lana finding her freedom and bliss without him. She described having a war in her mind and being stuck on a ride, which represents the toxic cycle of abusive relationships. This song is meant to give women strength to finally walk away for good.

Ride

Next song is “Ride,” which is probably arguably one of Lana‘s most powerful songs of all time. In the climax of the song, Lana sings, “I’m tired of feeling like I’m f-ing crazy. I’m tired of driving till I see stars in my eyes. All I’ve got to keep myself saying baby, so I just ride, I just ride.” These layers can be interpreted as her describing a relationship that has brought her to the brink of insanity from all of the toxicity. She also sings about how lonely she feels in this song when she sings, “I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast. I am alone at midnight. Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I’ve got a war in my mind.“

Shades of Cool

Next song is “Shades of Cool.“ To this day, I believe that this song should have been used in a James Bond movie and it’s never too late, so this song should still be using a James Bond movie at some point! It’s about Lana‘s desire to have a deeper connection with her partner, but he’s too cold, calculated, and unwilling to be vulnerable with her. She sings, “I can’t fix him, I can’t make him better. And I can’t do nothing about his strange weather. You are unfixable. I can’t break through your world. Because you live in shades of cool. Your heart is unbreakable.”

Ultraviolence

Obviously, I have to include “Ultraviolence” on this list, even though Lana has adamantly said that she’s never going to perform this song in a concert ever again. That makes me sad because I really adore this song and anyone who’s ever been in an abusive relationship can resonate with the lyrics. In the song, Lana sings about her partner exhibiting ultra violence. She sings, “I can hear sirens. He hit me and it felt like a kiss.“ She also sings about her pain being in such a heart-wrenching relationship, knowing that she loves someone who she shouldn’t. She sings, “I will do anything for you, babe. Bless it is this union. Crying tears of gold like lemonade.”

Blue Banisters

And of course “Blue Banisters.” This song is about her broken relationship with Sean Larkin and it definitely makes me tear up if I pay attention to the lyrics too deeply. In the song, she sings, “Said he’d come back every May, just to help me if I had to paint my banisters blue. Said he’d fix my weathervane, give me children, take away my pain, and paint my banisters blue.” She goes on about the hole that’s in her heart that he created in her because he didn’t actually come back for her. This person abandoned her and broke her heart. He made a bunch of empty promises to her and did not deliver on any of it, which left her feeling devastated.