Lana Del Rey - High By The Beach Lyrics Meaning

I identify a lot with this story. She talks about a girl living an apparently perfect life in her mansion with a seaview. This is the first impression. And the love she lives is a mirror of it. Apparently perfect on the outside, dark and creepy on the inside. We realize this during the last scenes, when she descends the stairs to the basement. The perfect home gets creepier. And her love as well. Another impression it gives me is of deep loneliness. She is a girl who has it all, materially. But a lot of emptyness inside. She may be married, lonely every day in her perfect house, empty of emotions, connecting only with the infinite sea. So, when he comes into her life she starts to feel again the emotion she lacked for a long time. She thinks she can leave it all behind: I don't need your money-probably speaks about her husband. She believed in her new love and could have left everything behind for him, all her accomodated life. Until he turned out to be a lie, a bad boy and only another problem for her. Her emptyness is breathtaking. We feel her depressed before her new love arrived in her life and anxious for him to knock at her door after-the hellicopter is very symbolic. It is dark, but tempting and it scares her but it gives her life, until it sucks all the life from her and she decides to shut it down. She chooses to get back to her previous mildly depressed state, her loneliness in symbiosis with the sea, instead of a love that breaks her apart and doesn't give her anything back. The last scene is very symbolic: the letter carried away by the waves just says that everything she believed in was a mere illusion. She killed her love with revenge and fire and the water now washes away everything: the passion, the pain, the anger and she can be herself again, free and high by the sea. Because is far better beeing lonely and free than in a Bad destructive love. She saw it coming from the beginning, never believed in his lies. As we see her house big and somptous but quite old and creepy right from the start.