The one thing that Lana has taught me is that sadness and being sad is not a problem. Beauty is hidden in sadness just like it is in happiness. You have them both then you gonna find peace.

her music style is so unique

this is one of the most bitter sweet songs i've ever heard. she's sad, but she's surrounded by love.

This feels like one of Lana’s most underrated songs. Hauntingly beautiful progression through a story of loss, acceptance and beauty of heartbreak. It doesn’t rely on a repetitive chorus to fill out the socially accepted length of a song, it’s almost 5 minutes of raw, gut wrenching honesty and reflection. Pure work of art.

In my opinion, this record is very powerful. I feel like at some point Lana was broken and the people closest to her put her back together piece by piece, and now she’s healing. Friends and family are very important during the healing process. Sometimes calling on them can be life changing if you have nowhere else to turn.

Everyone seems to be talking about how happy she looks and I'm here thinking that she captured depression so accurately and beautifully. I see her trying (like I do) but the lingering sense of awkwardness, uneasiness and, well, sadness, is almost palpable.

“And now my blue banisters are green and gray.” Those words say so much, by saying so little. So much emotion packed in that one line. This is such a poignant and lovely song, and easily her best ever.

there’s an ethereal element that this album has, she’s telling a powerful story as always and accepts sadness as a feeling and part of her evolution as a person, lana saved my life with this album

Lana's music makes life more beautiful. She's underrated.

That headturn in the end showing she is still sad inside, but trying to cope and be happy with herself surrounded by her closest. Thank you, Lana, for making me feel so much with your lyrics, voice and videos.

I love how lanas music always leaves space for you to fill it with your own memories and associations

this had such a cozy feel 🥰

Okay but like the way she portrays sadness while being surrounded by her loved ones is so accurate. Sometimes, you just can’t help what you feel but you’re super grateful for who you have around you. The storm, darker hue and all very beautifully ties together with the song. This music video isn’t trying to be anything but what Blue Banisters actually stands for. Well done Lana Del Rey! You did it again! I am so grateful that you made a video for this song! It’s stunning x

That piano at 3:40 gives me the chills up my spine, those rare beautiful tingles. All the piano is so good but those few notes hit so perfectly.

i think this is lyrically her most beautiful work ever

People say that the music deserved a better video, but I think the video is very fit for the music. It seems like it was taken with a simple camera, low on saturation and lightness, depicting her sadness. She is sad, even in the video, as she is trying to move on with the help of her friends, hanging around in her place, doing everything and nothing. The video is simple; no special effects, no bright colors, no dancing lights. The video is her sadness depicted. And sadness is blue, like her banisters, raining like the sky, it feels like breathing in sleep, deep and slow.

this album better get a grammy

In my opinion, one of her most underrated works. The brilliance of the songwriting is so subtle - and without much clammer from a bang-y melody...the details of this song's beauty exist its subtle delicacy. Love Lana - grateful that she shares her gifts.

how does everything she write make my heart ache.

What Lana has taught me is that listening to her music doesn't mean I gotta be sad. Her music is just art, a way to express the true-self of some of us, when I listen to her music I never feel sad, I feel free

this is so perfect - you can see her struggling with a heartbreak and her close ones making her forgetting about that man for a while, whilst she isn't alone, she's so vulnerable here

You have no idea what this song does to me. It's so ethereal but at the same time so real and beautifully heartbreaking

*Blue Banisters Lyrics:* [Verse 1] There's a picture on the wall Of me on a John Deere Jenny handed me a beer Said, "How the hell did you get there?" Oh, Oklahoma Mm-mm, mm [Verse 2] There were flowers that were dry Sittin' on the dresser She asked me where they're from I said, "A place I don't remember" Oh, Oklahoma (Oh-oh) [Pre-Chorus] Jenny jumped into the pool She was swimmin' with Nikki Lane She said, "Most men don't want a woman With a legacy, it's of age" She said "You can't be a muse and be happy, too You can't blacken the pages with Russian poetry And be happy" And that scared me 'Cause I met a man who [Chorus] Said he'd come back every May Just to help me if I'd paint my banisters blue Blue banisters, ooh Said he'd fix my weathervane Give me children, take away my pain And paint my banisters blue My banisters blue [Verse 3] There's a hole that's in my heart All my women try and heal They're doin' a good job Convincin' me that it's not real It's heat lightning, oh-oh-oh, oh [Verse 4] 'Cause there's a man that's in my past There's a man that's still right here He's real enough to touch In my darkest nights, he's shinin' Ooh-ooh-ooh [Pre-Chorus] Jenny was smokin' by the pool We were writin' with Nikki Lane I said I'm scared of the Santa Clarita Fires I wish that it would rain I said the power of us three can bring absolutely anything Except that one thing The diamonds, the rust, and the rain The thing that washes away the pain But that's okay, 'cause [Chorus 2] Now when weather turns to May All my sisters come to paint my banisters green My blue banisters grey Tex and Mex are in the Bay Chucky's makin' birthday cake Chickens runnin', bare feet, there's a baby on the way And now my blue banisters are green and grey, ah-ah [Outro] Summer comes, winter goes Spring, I skip, God knows Summer comes, winter goes Spring, I sleep, Heaven knows Every time it turns to May All my sisters fly to me To paint, paint

Oh this is truly a masterpiece. The color palette, the melancholy. I'd like to live inside this music video.

lana del rey isn’t just a human being, she’s a cultural reset, a reason to breathe, everything that I live for. she’s the reason why I wake up, the reason why I dress up, the reason why I eat, the reason why I still want to live in this mean world. she’s my everything.

I really enjoy the symbolism in this song. The title it’s self could be translated to blue=sad & Banister=support/safety. These are topics that I resonate the most with. As Lana invites those who are closest to her in her life to help her feel safe and supported when she is sad is something we all need to be reminded of. We are never alone, there is always someone there to talk to when we are at our lowest points. Friends are one of the most important ingredients in our lives. 🤍

I love NFR but Blue Banisters is the best for me, she gave her all in this album and it's a masterpiece. Her pain, her joy, her hope, we can see it through the hole album. The past Lana and the new Lana, so wholesome !

She touches the deep so bad with songs like this, I cry every time listen to Blue Banisters. Especially this song remind me a difficult period of my life, where thanks to the help of my friends, my "sisters", I managed to overcome a tragic breakup, after years of toxic relationship. Thank you Lana for touching my heart and making me remember how important are the wonders women who have decided to share their friendship with me. Love from Italy.

Pure perfection, our mom just keep on serving and feeding us with culture

I’m sobbing as a watch this. What a beautiful, intimate video. That moment where you can see the sadness in Lana’s face and then her smile when she sees her friend goofing off absolutely broke my heart and made me whole again. I believe the original BB music video was supposed to have her ex fiancé in it, perhaps that fact made her sad while filming. I love you Lana

I mean blue banisters are so underrated! I am so in love with this song and this album. It's so poetic and deep... This clip literally made me cry. Lana is a real artist... She is the most amazing woman on earth and I really want her to be happy. I love you so much, Lanita 💔✨

I love her so much! I been rocking with Lana since I first saw Summertime Sadness on MTV. She always sings from her soul and her writing… I can relate so much.

This song is ethereal, I have a really good feeling about this album.

I love that this is on the set of the album covers (like with Love for LfL or Blue Jeans for BTD)

She may not be the most popular. But she has TRUE fans. We truly do love her, and what she does; and quite frankly, she will always have our support.

I hate how much this song is underrated, perfectly captures that depressing melancholic feeling, and how lana is trying to heal of her past, and past loves surrounding with her "sisters" captures those good moments that you dont value but is when you really feel happiness, that you can be depressive but you can grow, accept, adapt, be grateful for what is around you and enjoy the moment, Those moments that you would remember nostalgic, how she paints, spends time with her family and smiles more... That's why is so beautiful and you see lana happy even tho she is not fully. People like more her early works for the rhythm but if you focus on blue banisters and you understand the poetic lyrics and listen to the beautiful vocals it floods you with this melancholic but beautiful feeling and you realize how much lana has grown as a person and how she show us it capturing it in her art

Without promoting her music and videos Lana is the perfect representation of what it means to be a real artist. She just loves her work of art, shes a free soul and shes a living legend. We love you Lana!!!

OH MY GOD I WAS NOT EXPECTING THIS RN BUT AM SO GRATEFUL !! Ive been wondering what was gonna happen for the video because I thought her cowboyish singer ex had been in it originally? But after the song was released i couldn't imagine how he'd fit in. Love how it turned out. And can't believe she mamaged to make this video feel so authentic and personal while also being so ethereal ugh I love!

Honestly this is truly one of her best songs. Top 5 in my opinion

This is her best song, no joke

Time to buy a John Deer

Lana can turn even the most simple day into art. She is still as soft and aesthetic as Rockwell's paintings.

This song hits a nerve. Makes me ugly cry every time

Blue Banisters will forever be one of my favorite albums. It’s so calming/therapeutic. Arcadia, BB, Black Bathing Suit, If you lie down with me, Wildflower Wildfire, Beautiful, Sweet Carolina. It’s a masterpiece 💙

Lana is one of the biggest inspiration I have… listening to her music makes me so happy…❤️

Repeat: Crying over the brilliance of Lana's artistry is a good investment. 😭

Incredible voice.. so compelling. Just like fresh air... light, airy, depth and so touching.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen myself more in any visual depiction of just how fluid our emotions can be in any given moment, at any given time. Vibrant, lighthearted, engaged - in the same breath detached, pensive, somber. I don’t think either has ever completely canceled the other out in my case. This song takes that feeling and expresses it sonically, lyrically, and now visually in this video. The ups and downs of moving forward with the help of the people we love most. Continue we must. 💛

growing up along with her music hits so hard every time.

OUR QUEEN IS BACK AND COOLER THAN EVER

Lana's Smile is brighter than the sun, and her music is like heven but it hurts inside.

I am so happy that we still have bewitching female artists like this in music.

Out of the black, into the blue, painted green and grey. Love her consistent use of colours as metaphors for her emotions/where she’s at at her life ❤️

still can't believe she's gonna give us two albums 🥺

what a hauntingly beautiful song

I can’t believe this album isn’t receiving that much love! This is one of her best albums

Lana is helping me to try to find peace like she has..it's time for me to move on from a lot of my pain and make blue into something

This is LIZZY GRANT singing. Truly from the heart. Touched beyond words

Ive been a lana fan for a long time, and ive cried to a couple of her songs before but… nothing like with this one. It just struck something in me, now it never fails to turn me into putty. Every single time i hear this song i start bawling my eyes out, and every time i need to cry i come to this song. Sometimes just singing it to myself is enough to make me cry like a little baby. It’s beautiful, its sad, it’s hopeful. She’s so unbelievably sad but she’s getting better and her sisters are there for her, the display of sorority is beautiful and she’s so honest and vulnerable, and it really comes through.

Latinos y latinas aquí presente apoyando a nuestra reina alternativo psicodélico y del sentimiento profundo. TE AMAMOS LANA, gracias por estos 10 años de carrera llena de música y talento verdadero único. ✨💙

I hope this album’s isn’t a goodbye. Kind of feels like one sometimes with her deactivating her Instagram and mentioning wanting to “leave” and her kind of fu attitude in Arcadia, for instance. I hope she’s just in a more self reflective time in her life and that she’ll come back ❤️

this songwriting.. she’s a genius….

I love the line at 4:08, her cadence throughout the song is very interesting, but the way she stutters on sisters is so satisfying. Like she’s thinking of saying friends but then changes to sisters.

the high quality music videos again for me

It just hit me that Blue Banisters literally means the sad & depressing things in life we hang onto… how did I not see it until now. Blue meaning sad, and banisters something we hang onto or supports us… That’s why you can see she’s so sad in moments… 🥲

this is easily top five lana songs for me!! it is so beautifully written and just watching the music video makes it a million times better.

Her music is poetry and I wish more people appreciated her style.

I love how different her newer music videos are. She's being more real and genuine in them, her older ones (which I adore, no hate for them) seem to dramatize her songs and make them seem more like a story, while her newer videos, it's like she's showing us a look into her real self. She's doing the videos with her friend and sister, she's doing normal things that still show the story without glamorizing it. She's no longer the 'sad girl' aesthetic Tumblr made her out to be, she matured and is now being perceived as the person she should be; a woman is fierce and powerful but also a woman who doesn't have a perfect past and burdened with a sadness. She's more real in her videos, the way she looks at the camera makes it so easy to connect with her and understand what she's expressing. I hope this easy to understand, and not messy like my last comment...

she has a sort of beauty that no one compares to. she's magnificent, ethereal, angelic and even dark. just so fairytale-ish. beautiful

This song literally hits me so deep. The lyrics, her voice, the instrumental, everything is just magical and nostalgic.

The most important thing that Lana has taught me so far is that we should always enjoy the moment, enjoy our lives, be crazy and wild and always try to have some fun. Sometimes all we need is to be ourselves, cuz in the end of the day, we are unique.. just the way we are.

She's wearing the dress from the cover, there's a picture on the wall with her on a John Deere, we see Tex & Mex (or one of) right there, Chuck is actually making birthday cake, and her girls are painting her (brown) banisters gray........ My life is complete, thank you Lana!!! I love this song SO much and was hoping for a music video for it!

I just can't believe how this music fits to this video.. The way it was recorded, edited... Cloudy, but still sunny... What a mood!

The Millennial Torch Song Extraordinaire. She's a good story teller and she has that film noir quality to her exposition in these songs. I never understood the backlash against her. She matured as an artist and has gotten better which is rare and exceptionally difficult for most musicians and singers.

LYRICS: There's a picture on the wall Of me on a John Deere Jenny handed me a beer Said "How the hell did you get there?" Oh, Oklahoma Mhm-hm, hm There were flowers that were dry Sittin' on the dresser She asked me where they from I said "A place I don't remember" Oh, Oklahoma Oh, mhm Jenny jumped into the pool She was swimmin' with Nikki Lane She said "Most men don't want a woman With a legacy, it's of age" She said "You can't be muse and be happy, too. You can't blacken the pages with Russian poetry and be happy" And that scared me 'Cause I met a man who Said he'd come back every May Just to help me if I'd paint my banisters blue Blue banisters, oh Said he'd fix my weathervane Give me children, take away my pain And paint my banisters blue My banisters blue There's a hole that's in my heart All my women try and heal They're doin' a good job Convincin' me that it's not real It's heat lightning,, oh-oh-uh, uh 'Cause there's a man that's in my past There's a man that's still right here He's real enough to touch In my darkest nights, he's shining Ooh-ooh-ooh Jenny was smokin' by the pool We were writin' with Nikki Lane I said I'm scared of the Santa Clarita Fires I wish that it would rain I said the power of us three can bring absolutely anything Except that one thing The diamonds, the rust and the rain The thing that washes away the pain But that's okay, 'cause Now, when weather turns to May All my sisters come to paint my banisters green My blue banisters grey Tex and Mex are in the Bay Chucky's makin' birthday cake Jake is runnin' barefeet, there's a baby on the way And now my blue banisters are green and grey, ah-ah Summer comes, winter goes Spring I skip, God knows Summer comes, winter goes Spring I sleep, Heaven knows Every time it turns to May All my sisters fly to me To paint, paint

This is one of those perfect “driving home in the rain” songs. Beautiful.

I'm sure many can relate to this song and video. Smiling, acting happy, trying to hide her inner turmoil has been captured beautifully. Lana Del Rey really doesn't get enough credit for her artistry.

If I had the opportunity to thank lana for this album I wouldn't hesitate to take it. I don't think I've ever felt more touched in my life- I find myself crying everytime but it makes me feel so at peace with myself and the world.

This song makes me cry. So relatable.

I'm so happy she makes art out of everything. She makes music...real artistry and embodies the value of it. I'm so happy the kids are listening to her discography like a bible. It tells a story and it inspires emotions, without judgment or fear.

Blue Banisters isnt just an album, its a lifestyle, a reason to breathe. an escape from this cruel world filled with thieves. its art, a hug from loved one. its everything you ever wanted, its everything you ever need.

Deeply in love with Lana, her voice, music, art, and vibes.

i am extremely overwhelmed by this song...i am a man but those lyrics make me very emotional

I’m loving this holistic, carefree, happy, and cozy era!

She takes the word “sisterhood” and brings it to life.

Lana and her two friends standing tall against the wind feels almost biblical

Something about the trill of the repeating single piano note and her haunting, hurting voice makes me cry. Every damn time.

I love that she has been belting a lot lately. Her range is so impressive.

This is like the emotional follow through of “this is what makes us girls” and I love it

This is top 5 Lana song btw

„The power of us three can bring absolutely anything, except that one thing the diamonds the rust and the rain, the thing that washes away the pain“ I understand it as the only thing that could really take away the pain is male love, here describe as the diamonds that have a deeper meaning when received by a lover, or the time, in which the steel (pain and memories) are going to be washed by the rain and rust. The Love and pain though rusted are still never ceasing to exist, but that’s okay cause she will paint it new every year. Definitely one of the best lyrics she ever wrote.

I love her melancholy voice, lyrics, art, the way she expresses herself, over and over again 🦋. Thank you for your music 🌸

This song is so beautiful yet sad. You can feel Lana's pain and sadness and see it while she as filming. This song is a story about something that happened in her life. "there's a hole in my heart.'

The way she looks at the camera at the end, just breaks my heart.

This song isn’t about a relationship, it’s about how she found healing through these women, if you listen to the lyrics, the pain was always with her the whole time, she wanted someone to take it away

I feel like it’s all about Lana’s perception and puts the song in a new light. Her sister actually paints her banisters blue but lana doesn’t see that because she thinks only her man can do that. So even if someone else paints them blue she will simply see them as green and gray

I mean….holy shit. She’s so beautiful, everything she does it beautiful. She’s an angel, she’s godsent. She’s unlike any artist I ever come to know, and I love how she’s so unique. Thank God for you, Lana. You’re a blessing.

This really encapsulates the feeling of abandonment, and the replacement behaviors and rituals we create to not fall to darkness. How we try to fill the black void that others left behind with empty promises. The beauty in recovery, and the beauty in the lingering sadness. God bless you Lana, I love you till I die. - Laura Lee

the "You can't blacken pages with Russian poetry, and be happy" part hit hard.

Adele now Lana. What a week. Hearing true musicians who aren't industry pigs. Beautiful. This is ethereal. Transcendence.