Not even they can stop me now
Boy, I be flyin' overhead
Their heavy words can't bring me down
Boy, I've been raised from the dead
[Pre-Chorus]
No one even knows how hard life was
I don't even think about it now because
I finally found you
Oh, sing it to me
[Chorus]
Now my life is sweet like cinnamon
Like a fucking dream I'm livin' in
Baby, love me 'cause I'm playin' on the radio
How do you like me now?
Pick me up and take me like a vitamin
'Cause my body's sweet like sugar venom, oh, yeah
Baby, love me 'cause I'm playin' on the radio
How do you like me now?
[Verse 2]
American dreams came true somehow
I swore I'd chase 'em 'til I was dead
I heard the streets were paved with gold
That's what my father said
No one even knows what life was like
Now I'm in L.A. and it's paradise
I finally found you
Oh, sing it to me
[Chorus]
Now my life is sweet like cinnamon
Like a fucking dream I'm livin' in
Baby, love me 'cause I'm playin' on the radio
How do you like me now?
Pick me up and take me like a vitamin
'Cause my body's sweet like sugar venom, oh, yeah
Baby, love me 'cause I'm playin' on the radio
How do you like me now?
[Bridge]
Sweet like cinnamon
Like a fucking dream I'm livin' in
Baby, love me 'cause I'm playin' on the radio
How do you like me now?
Sweet like cinnamon
Like a fucking dream I'm livin' in
I finally found you (Radio, radio, radio)
Oh, sing it to me
Now my life is sweet like cinnamon
Like a fucking dream I'm livin' in
Baby, love me 'cause I'm playin' on the radio
How do you like me now?
Pick me up and take me like a vitamin
'Cause my body's sweet like sugar venom, oh, yeah
Baby, love me 'cause I'm playin' on the radio
How do you like me now? (Oh, sing it to me)
Now my life is sweet like cinnamon
Like a fucking dream I'm livin' in
Baby, love me 'cause I'm playin' on the radio
How do you like me now?
Pick me up and take me like a vitamin
'Cause my body's sweet like sugar venom, oh, yeah
Baby, love me 'cause I'm playin' on the radio
How do you like me now?
About
Radio (also known as “Cinnamon”) is a song written by Del Rey and Justin Parker.
Talking about the song in an interview in 2012, Lana said
People always said ‘oh well people will come out of the woodwork and change their mind about you, they’ll start to like you because you’re on the radio’ and it is true, but I don’t mind, cause I’d rather have people be nice to me, so I liked it. I don’t really care why people are nice to me, I just like it when it’s easier.
Del Rey went on to explain when she wrote Radio by stating that she wrote it when a guy she used to know came back into her life,
so I was like now my life is sweet like cinnamon, cause he came back.
Q&A
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According to Songfacts, Lana Del Rey explained to The Sun:
With the track “Radio,” Justin just held down long keys. Sometimes what I ask my producers to do is just hold down long extended, melancholic notes and I end up just freestyling over them.
People always said ‘oh well people will come out of the woodwork and change their mind about you, they’ll start to like you because you’re on the radio’ and it is true, but I don’t mind, cause I’d rather have people be nice to me, so I liked it. I don’t really care why people are nice to me, I just like it when it’s easier.
- 1.Born To Die
- 3.Blue Jeans
- 4.Video Games
- 8.Radio
- 9.Carmen
- 13.Without You
- 14.Lolita
- 15.Lucky Ones
- 16.Ride
- 17.American
- 18.Cola
- 19.Body Electric
- 20.Blue Velvet
- 21.Gods & Monsters
- 22.Yayo
- 23.Bel Air
- 24.Burning Desire