RIDE

Jujur, saya gak begitu suka konsep dari video Lana ini. Terlalu bitchy. Tapi ya itulah yang ingin dia sampaikan tentang kebebasan. Young, Wild and Free. Tapi, bukan konsep terlalu bebas dari video ini yang akan saya bahas. Tapi monolog yang Lana tulis sendiri dan ia baca pada awal dan akhir video. Indah. Keren. Saya suka. Sampai-sampai saya gugling untuk tau persis seperti apa tulisan secara utuhnya. Dan, inilah hasil pencarian saya. Saya jatuh cinta sama sajaknya yang sederhana tapi mengena.

Ride

I was in the winter of my life, and the men I met along the road were my only summer.

At night I fell asleep with visions of myself dancing and laughing and crying with them.

Three years down the line of being an endless world tour, and my memories of them were the only things that sustained me, and my only real happy times.

I was a singer, not a very popular one. 

I once had dreams of becoming a beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate series of events saw those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken.

But I really didn’t mind because I knew that it takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it to know what true freedom is.

When the people I used to know found out what I had been doing, how I had been living, they asked me ‘why’. 

But there’s no use in talking to people who have a home. 

They have no idea what it’s like to seek safety in other people, for home to be wherever you lie your head.

I was always an unusual girl. 

My mother told me I had a chameleon soul.

No moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality. 

Just an inner indecisiviness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean. 

And if I said that I didn’t plan for it to turn out this way, I’d be lying because I was born to be other woman.

Who belonged to no one, who belonged to everyone, who had nothing, who wanted everything.

With a fire for every experience and an obsession for freedom that terrified me to the point that I couldn’t even talk about.

And pushed me to a nomadic point of madness that both dazzled and dizzied me.

Every night, I used to pray that I’d find my people, and finally I did on the open road. We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore, except to make our lives into a work of art.

I believe in the country America I used to be. 

I believe in the person I want to become. 

I believe in the freedom of the open road. 

And my motto is the same as ever. 

I believe in the kindness of strangers. 

And when I’m at war with myself, I ride. 

Just ride.

Who are you? Are you in touch with all your darkest fantasies?

Have you created a life for yourself where you’re free to experience them?

I have.

I am fucking crazy. But I am free.