Lana Del Rey : Video Games (Later with Jools - Live Broadcast) HQ

American singer songwriter Lana Del Rey with her first live performance on UK television. This was a live broadcast and she is a litlle nervous here as you would expect
Thanks for the many interesting comments :)
Born Elizabeth Grant (June 21, 1986) now better known by her stage name Lana Del Ray. Her stage name is a combination of the late old Hollywood actress Lana Turner and the Ford Del Rey

Lana's song "Video Games" was named "Best New Track" by Pitchfork Tickets for Grant's show in London sold out in half an hour
She wrote the song with songwriter Justin Parker after he played her the piano chords that would become its backbone. The song is about a relationship, in which she expresses her frustration at making all the running. She explained to Complex Magazine: "When you're an introvert like me and you've been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It's a real release."
Del Ray's lyrics were inspired by two broken relationships in her past. "The verse was about the way things were with one person, and the chorus was the way that I wished things had really been with another person, who I thought about for a long time," she told Socialstereotype.com, breaking into an acapella of the song. "'Swinging in the backyard, pull up in your fast car, whistling my name'. That was what happened, you know? He'd come home and I'd see him. But then the chorus, 'Heaven is a place on earth with you, tell me all the things you wanna do' wasn't like that. That was the way that I wished it was -- the melody sounds so compelling and heavenly because I wanted it to be that way.

The verse is more matter-of-fact because that's how it was. It's a mix of memories and the way I wished it could have been. Just because things happened a certain way doesn't mean that that's the way that they are. It really is what you choose to think about. Bad things happen every day but you're not going to be any happier thinking about them. So I don't think about them. I don't have that luxury any more. Some people say that 'Video Games' stops them in their tracks; it's that kind of song. It's just really sad."

Video Games
(Elizabeth Grant, Justin Parker.)

Swingin in the back yard
Pull up in your fast car
Whistlin my name

Open up a beer and
Say get over here
And play a video game

I'm in his favorite sun dress
Watchin me get undressed
Take my body down town

I say 'You da bestest'
Lean in for a big kiss
Put his favorite perfume on
Go play a video game

It's you, it's you, it's all for you
Everything I do
Tell you all the time
Heaven is a place on earth with you
Tell me all the things you wanna do
I heard that you like the bad girls
Honey, is that true?
It's better than I ever even knew
They say that the world was built for two
Only worth living
If somebody is loving you
Baby now you do

Singing in the old bar
Swinging with the old stars
Living for the fame
Kissing in the blue dark
Playing pool and wild darts
Video games

He holds me in his big arms
He's drunk and I am seein' stars
This is all I think of
[ From: http://www.elyrics.net/read/l/lana-del-ray-lyrics/video-games-lyrics.html ]
Watchin all our friends fall
Leanin out of old cars
This is my idea of fun
Playing video games

It's you, it's you, it's all for you
Everything I do
Tell you all the time
Heaven is a place on earth with you
Tell me all the things you wanna do
I heard that you like the bad girls
Honey, is that true?
It's better than I ever even knew
They say that the world was built for two
Only worth living
If somebody is loving you
Baby now you do

(Now you do)

It's you, it's you, it's all for you
Everything I do
Tell you all the time
Heaven is a place on earth wit' you
Tell me all the things you wanna do do
I heard that you like the bad girls
Honey, is that true?
It's better than I ever even knew
They say that the world was built for two
Only worth living
If somebody is loving you
Maybe now you do

Maybe now you do

(Now you do)

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[yucravechina]

@feelingismy she looks like pam from true blood.

[NataliaWeronikaD]

we need people like her, like adele! they keep music alive.

[HENRYFOLEY]

Nice change at 3:20

[franciscoicarocs]

Amazing live performance. 

[McSupermuell]

Der Pianist ist sowieso der coolste!

[100stacy]

Sia Furler tweet that she love this! <3

[Dustintaiwan]

nice



[feelingismy]

@yucravechina right too!

She's a chameleon...

[1000revolutions]

@MMMAAAEEELLL Pues jódete, esto es así. Pitbull es famosísimo y es detestable.

[coutdownx33]

English : Beautiful!