Which Lady Gaga lyrics do you relate to the most?

[Oriane 22,710]

"It's been two years since I let you go
I couldn't listen to a joke or a Rock and Roll
Muscle cars drove a truck right through my heart
On my birthday you sang me "Heart of Gold"
With a guitar humming and no clothes"

Although I don't relate to these specific details, there's something very true about not being able to laugh, listen to the music that the person likes, or see anything they like because it's painful. The second part I can relate to because of an experience I had.

 

"I know I ****ed up again

'cause I lost my only friend"

There were times when I lost very close friends and I felt like I was responsible, so this line hits hard.

 

A lot of Gypsy:

"Sometimes a story has no end
Sometimes I think that we could just be friends
"'Cause I'm a wandering man," he said to me
"And what about our future plans?
Does this thing we have even makes sense
When I got the whole world in front of me?"

I don't wanna be alone forever, but I love gypsy life

"So I just packed my baggage and

Said goodbye to family and friends"

And took a road to nowhere on my own"

"I don't speak German, but I try"

 

Very relatable, as somone who lives far from home. Also relates to someone I had a long-distance friendship/relationship with, and we knew it wouldn't work in the long term.

 

Also a lot of Chromatica, when I was depressed:

"Where's my body? I'm stuck in my mind"

"At least I show up, you showed me nothing at all"

"Think it's a wound I still entertain"

"Am I still alive? Where am I? I cry

Who was it that pulled the trigger? Was it you or I?"

All of these I could totally relate to, sometimes blaming myself for the pain I was going through.

 

"River in my eyes, I've got a poem in my throat
I hear the music and it takes me by surprise"

This one is so real when you're a songwriter. From pain and tears comes beautiful music and lyrics, and sometimes, in your darkest moments, you get a hit of creativity that pushes you to keep going.

 

[TimotheeChalamet 6,939]

I'm so hungry from an anorexic heart

[Flippy 14,235]

Love is like a brick, you can build a house or sink a dead body

[TheARTPOPball 1,617]

“You’re so tortured when you sleep” I have sleep apnea and night terrors often 

“ baby loves to dance in the dark” I prefer intimacy at night 

“Can I be myself in a world that’s just faking” I was raised in the church but was also blessed with the gift of empathy so I can tell that almost everyone is hiding smth and that my problems are not unique 

“I confess I am lost in the age of the social” before I deleted most of my social media the hang up it had on me was crazy, borderline idolatry

“That boy is a monster” I have horse c0ck

“I was 23, she was 35” a couple years ago I got drunk at a bar and a cougar approached me and we ended up kissing

“ is it all In my head” general anxiety 

“The scars on my mind are on replay” as a bisexual I feel imposter syndrome no matter what gender I’m with so that’s all I think about

 

[NUTELLA 26,046]

5 minutes ago, TheARTPOPball said:

I have horse c0ck

Dirty pony, GGD can't wait to hose you down

[Jenina 15,330]

All of 911

[gagacabana 7,228]

13 hours ago, ****oDanceFight said:

You’re making me tear up 

I appreciate your levity and how you are both so earnest and also so incredibly hysterical in each thread I see you post in!

I think there’s definitely so much room in art to take the artist’s original meaning and intent but also take the subtext into our own interpretation to resonate on a deeper, spiritual level. The degree of separation between “Hey Girl” being about supporting female friendships/empowerment and sapphic empowerment is like a centimeter, and that is the power of her work and art!

Take your time; I’d love to see which lyrics resonate with you most, and especially from a sapphic perspective! I think so many of her songs are intentionally (and unintentionally) about sapphic attraction and even her songs about tapping into a “feminine divine” as it were are obviously so sapphic coded that it’s impossible to not have that connection to her work.

Now you made me tear up! 

"Just another way to prove I love you / And it's hard today / I'll lay back in my chair and find a way / And when you say that thing that you say / That makes me mad / I'll turn away, I'll turn away, I'll turn away / And think of different ways to keep my spirits up / And choreograph hours with playful, joyous thoughts / We both know I could learn a thing or two / About relaxing, hey, I love you / And after all, it's just another day / Oh, I could use some two or three / Or other kind of ways to be / But today I won't be so hard on me / I'll walk alone down a different street / And smile at all the new strange I meet / And pick up unique style, I'll kick around today / And create simple thoughts, I'll laugh in humble ways / We both know I could learn a thing or two / About behaving, but I love you / And after all, it's just another day" I really get emotional by reading alone, this feels like concrete poetry to free my mind, so rhythmic and captivating all the way through. And I know Gaga dedicated it to Mark but after re-reading it i realize just how much this is like a love letter from Stefani to Lady Gaga, which makes even more sense with my own way of echoing this song to myself, like a motto or a prayer (that i don't end up kword myself). Today I won't be so hard on me, which really is, today I will face my fears (however I can), and I won't hurt myself (too much), and I will stay around for enough time to see another day. Echoing it again and again don't magically make the bad feelings go away, but just by focusing on Gaga's voice, and thinking about the place of pain from where this song came, how "all this blood was never beautiful in the beginning, it was just red", and how she survived, it distracts me so I move on because, after all, it's just another day. After many years of being alive in spite of me, like I know Gaga herself has felt too, it is continuously music that bring us back to life, no matter what happens and how hard it gets, all of these connections make us feel stronger and less lonely, and after all it's just another day. So yeah I really love this song and could go on and on for pages 

[PornoDanceFight 1,983]

11 minutes ago, gagacabana said:

i realize just how much this is like a love letter from Stefani to Lady Gaga, which makes even more sense with my own way of echoing this song to myself, like a motto or a prayer

 

11 minutes ago, gagacabana said:

After many years of being alive in spite of me, like I know Gaga herself has felt too, it is continuously music that bring us back to life, no matter what happens and how hard it gets, all of these connections make us feel stronger and less lonely, and after all it's just another day.

Wow, I absolutely love your connection to this song!  That's what I love about pop music: the ability to transmute something specific from the performer/writer to a universal appeal that everyone can connect to in some way. I think that "meeting of the minds" in the song: Stefani to Gaga, us to ourselves, (and to a greater extent: conscious to subconscious) is incredibly affirming. I love that we can recognize something in art that connects us to each other and each other to the art or artist. Lowkey very ARTPOP...

[gagacabana 7,228]

1 minute ago, ****oDanceFight said:

 

Wow, I absolutely love your connection to this song!  That's what I love about pop music: the ability to transmute something specific from the performer/writer to a universal appeal that everyone can connect to in some way. I think that "meeting of the minds" in the song: Stefani to Gaga, us to ourselves, (and to a greater extent: conscious to subconscious) is incredibly affirming. I love that we can recognize something in art that connects us to each other and each other to the art or artist. Lowkey very ARTPOP...

Absolutely ARTPOP! And on that note, BTW (both song and album) will always mean the world to me because "No matter gay, straight, or bi / Lesbian, transgender life / I'm on the right track baby / I was born to survive / No matter black, white or beige" as a lightskin dyke is just sooooo real despite life's disabilities lefting me outcast bullied and teased 

[KindnessPunk 2,477]

12 hours ago, Blackout19 said:

I'm walking downtown, hear my sound
No-one knows me yet, not right now
But I'm 'bout to set
This feeling, in motion
I walk the downtown, hear my sound

I see that I want it, want it (Be free)
Don't fight it, fight it
But if I'm gonna go for it
(I remember that, that I)
I see that I want it, want it (Be free)
Don't fight it, fight it
But if I'm gonna go for it
(I remember that, that I)

I'm not nothing without a steady hand (Hand)
I'm not nothing unless I know I can
I'm still something if I don't got a man
I'm a free woman
Oh-oh (Be free)

(Oh, yeah)

(Be free)

This is my dancefloor I fought for
Ain't hard, that's what I'm livin' for
So light up my body
And kiss me too heartily
We own the downtown, hear our sound

I see that I want it, want it (Be free)
Don't fight it, fight it
But if I'm gonna go for it
(I remember that, that I)
I see that I want it, want it (Be free)
Don't fight it, fight it
But if I'm gonna go for it
(I remember that, that I)

I'm not nothing without a steady hand (I'm a free woman)
I'm not nothing unless I know I can (I'm a free woman)
I'm still something if I don't got a man
I'm a free woman
Oh-oh (Be free)

I'm a free woman
I'm a free woman (Be free)
I'm a free woman
I'm a free woman
Oh-oh (Be free)

I'm not nothing without a steady hand (I'm a free woman)
I'm not nothing unless I know I can (I'm a free woman)
I'm still something if I don't got a man
I'm a free woman (Ooh)
Oh-oh (Be free)

POETRY 

[StrawberryBlond 15,539]

This will be long enough so I won't provide explanations, they're all pretty obvious:

Fooled Me Again (Honest Eyes) - "That's alright baby, I'm nobody's mother but I don't want this last cigarette to be over."

Paper Gangsta - "Some s**t don't fly by me in a man."

So Happy I Could Die - "In the silence of the night, through all the tears and all the lies, I touch myself and it's alright."

Americano - "I will fight for, I have fought for, how I love you. I have cried for, I will die for how I care."

Hair - "I don't wanna change and I don't wanna be ashamed, I'm the spirit of my hair, it's all the glory that I bear."

Scheiße - "If you're a strong female, you don't need permission."

The Queen - "Whenever I start feeling strong I'm called a b***h in the night."

I Wanna Be With You - "Let's celebrate the fun of being young, I don't wanna grow up."

Gypsy - "And then he asked me, he said 'Baby, why do we love each other?' I said honey it's simple, it's the way you love and treat your mother."

Diamond Heart - "I may not be flawless but you know I got a diamond heart."

John Wayne - "Every John is just the same, I'm sick of their city games, I crave a real wild man, I'm strung out on John Wayne."

Angel Down - "Doesn't everyone belong in the arms of the sacred? Why do we pretend we're wrong, has our young courage faded?"

The Cure - "And if you say you're ok, I'm gonna heal you anyway."

Shallow - "In all the good times I find myself longing for change and in the bad times, I fear myself."

Heal Me - "I wanna be more or equal, not less. I wanna be happy with someone, I wanna feel blessed."

Is That Alright? - "I hope you're still with me when I'm not quite myself and I pray that you'll lift me when you know I need help."

Stupid Love - "All I ever wanted was love."

Free Woman - "No one knows me not right now but I am bound to set this feeling in motion, I walk the downtown, hear my sound."

Plastic Doll - "I've spent too long dancing all alone, dancing to the same song, I'm no toy for a real boy, if you're a real boy."

Sine From Above - "I found myself without a prayer, I lost my love and no one cared, when I was young, I prayed for lightning."

1000 Doves - "I need you to listen to me, please believe me, I'm completely lonely, please don't judge me, when your tears I'll falling, I'll catch them as they fall."

Hold My Hand - "I know you're scared and your pain is imperfect but don't you give up on yourself, I heard a story, a girl she once told me that I would be happy again."

Happy Mistake - "A lonely disposition, portraits of a strung-out girl. How'd I get so addicted to the love of the whole world?"

Don't Call Tonight - "Don't call tonight unless you wanna hurt me, don't call tonight, it's not because you care, don't call tonight, tomorrow you'll desert me, I can hear everything you're saying from here."

The Beast - "I wanna feel the beast inside."

 

I like how almost everything is "I'm a bit of a mess but I just want to be loved and I'll be happy" and then it's occasionally punctuated with "I'm horny af."