Sure. I will make this quick and try to explain you why I think this text has a great and genuine artistic value. My mother tongue is not English so maybe I am overvaluing things and the text itself but this why I do believe that Venice Bitch is amazing regardless.
After the first listening, it is just natural to say that this song is about a romantic relationship. How original. But this is precisely by using a cliché theme and making it original that this song is actually great. My analysis will be linear as I do not want to spend too much time on it, I am sorry.
Fear fun, fear love: Nice rhythmic, musical reference, obviously Lana is afraid of commitment and the feelings she might develop. Fearing fun might be related to the fact that she could miss the fun she had once it’s all over.
Fresh out of fucks, forever: The “F” alliteration goes on. It sounds nice. As I am not a native, it is unclear what this does truly mean. Lana has had a streak of “lovers” with whom she had sex and she wants to stop sleeping here and there? Or does it mean the opposite? She misses sex? I think it is the first meaning, hence the fear.
Tryin’ to be stronger for you: She is ready to change herself to be liked by her lover. It could also refer to the previous verse.
Ice cream, Ice queen: Nice rhythmic, obviously nice pun as well. Lana can act cold sometimes and not show feelings because of the fear previously mentioned. She is cold as an ice cream, which is yet sweet too. That is why she is so mysterious and interesting: sweet and cold at the same time, and maybe the summertime boy she met will melt the ice cream until there is only sweetness.
I dream in jeans and leather: It gives us a visual on how she looks. It could also mean how she wants to look, she wants to act tough with leather on.
Life’s dream, I’m sweet for you: There is more sweetness than cold now. Life’s dream can also mean a lot, is this relationship the dream of her life, or is she talking generally about the life being a dream. Both have a cool interpretation. I like to think that like is like a dream as it can end abruptly with our lifetime not making necessarily sense.
Oh god, miss you on my lips: Beautiful verse. The sense of touch and memory are mixed, synesthesia? We can picture a kiss of course, but needless to say it now.
It’s me your little Venice Bitch: Of course, a lovely pun here. They met there probably, she loves this place. Why would she qualify herself a bitch though? Because of her acting nature: not being herself, craving for love, dreaming constantly, many lovers… ?
On the stoop with the neighborhood kids: We can picture them. That goes against the “bitch” noun just used. She is changing, redeeming herself: she was probably egoistical before, focused on her lovers only and now she is having fun with kids.
I think this song is autobiographic.
Callin’ out, bang bang, kiss kiss: Reference. And as we said, Lana had maybe too much lovers, hence why the “bang bang” (sex sounds) comes before the “kiss kiss” (love). She is now learning to love beyond sexual desire.
You’re in the yard, I light the fire: Just a picture. They are chilling, relaxing, they don’t need to make sex to love each other because they feel good together.
And as the summer fades away: She spent summer with that boy, and the relationship might inevitably end. She is associating “summer” with her lover, as she met him during that season.
Nothing gold can stay: Beautiful verse. The golden relationship wont last. Like in life, many things that are good, don’t last (sometimes love is not enough and…). Maybe she had to leave like in West coast.
You write I tour we make it work: But they try to continue. They make it work, it’s obviously a story. And she gives credit to that lover for her career.
You’re beautiful and I’m insane: Interesting construction, one meliorative adjective, one pejorative. The worst thing is that she probably sees him “beautiful” because she is insane.
We’re American-made: They both love what America has to offer. Venice Beach for example. They are both from there, but she won’t have a relationship like she used to (sex first, being a bitch, bad boys), and she is switching to a pure and simple relationship like we dream in American. But this only happens with him, hence “We are”.
I won’t comment the following verses, but the ideas developed are the same “Hallmarks” for the ideal pure relationship, “one dream, one life, one lover” which means she is done with her many lovers “It’s just me and you”. They love each other.
But as we have seen previously “miss you on my lips”: which means they are no longer together, which goes against the idea of a pure and perfect relationship. Lana won’t stick the her “one life, one dream, one lover” as they are not together anymore. Or maybe she will wait…
The guitars come in, the song gets nostalgic, it just goes to show that Lana remembers this relationship and is longing for it. The words repeated are the same “shatter”, “bang bang kiss kiss” and this goes over and over (she literally says that).
Young babe is back in town now: She is back. Somehow, they were separated. And she wants to reunite with him (we can guess a long time has passed with the nostalgic mood of the instrumental and how long it lasts).
“You should come, come over”: And she says it twice. Maybe he didn’t answer first. She is insisting because she loves him so much, but does he answer…
“We’ll be hanging around now”: She wants to be close to him and she wants to hang out with him, it sounds like an invitation.
The next chorus is slightly different “Touch me with your fingertips” and “Love him on my lips”. So they have been reunited and he saw her again. The probably had sex.
Back in the garden: It reminds the “yard”.
We are getting high now, because we are older: A beautiful verse than can be understood in two different ways. Of course, high refers to drugs. Do they use drugs because they can’t have fun without it like they used to before? It seems like the “pure relationship” is not a thing anymore. Drugs are not part of the ideal American-made relationship. So “older” can also means that they grew up, and their ideals and values have changed along, and now, they want to do drugs unlike before.
Me, myself, I like diamonds: This sounds pretty shallow. Diamonds can refer to drug, so it refers to the last verse too, and maybe she has come to accept that she is a bad girl inside and no one can change that. She can’t escape her nature of liking drugs, or simply luxury (diamonds).
My baby, crimson and clover: This is the funniest part because they depicted a pure relationship throughout the song, and it closes on “crimson and clover” said many times, which refers to a psychedelic rock classic and everything that goes with it : drugs, sex… The song is very trippy by the way. But she likes it that way too “honey”. She is still in love.
Over and over honey: Whatever it refers to, they do it, and the “er” assonance continues. Sounds cool.
If you weren’t mine, I’d be jealous of your love: This is a typical Lana-line, very sentimental, she is dependent on him and she is considering the worst “him not being hers” but yet, he is hers. That goes to show that this relationship was not clear all along but somehow remained a true love; despite the distance, despite time, and despite everything that happened, even who they are, they remained in love. They always got along, and they enjoy it as a perfect form of love. This love they are living is undefined and thus eternal as it will last in any conditions. I don’t have a lot to say about the many stylistic devices, but this is obviously well built and well rhythmed. The theme and how they treat it what make the song amazing, beside the fact that it also sounds fucking good.
I hope you liked it and understand my comment now.