(What? Who me? What?)
Feet, don't fail me now
Take me to the finish line
Oh, my heart it breaks
Every step that I take,
But I'm hoping at the gates,
They'll tell me that you're mine
Walking through the city streets,
Is it by mistake or design?
I feel so alone on the Friday nights
Can you make it feel like home,
If I tell you you're mine?
It's like I told you, honey
Don't make me sad,
Don't make me cry
Sometimes love is not enough,
And the road gets tough, I don't know why
Keep making me laugh,
Let's go get high-
The road is long,
We carry on,
Try to have fun in the meantime
Come and take a walk on the wild side,
Let me kiss you hard in the pouring rain,
You like your girls insane
So, choose your last words
This is the last time
'Cause you and I,
We were born to die
Lost but now I am found,
I can see but once I was blind
I was so confused as a little child
Tryin' to take what I could get,
Scared that I couldn't find
All the answers, honey
Don't make me sad,
Don't make me cry
Sometimes love is not enough,
And the road gets tough, I don't know why
Keep making me laugh,
Let's go get high-
The road is long,
We carry on,
Try to have fun in the meantime
Come and take a walk on the wild side,
Let me kiss you hard in the pouring rain,
You like your girls insane
So, choose your last words
This is the last time
'Cause you and I,
We were born to die
We were born to die,
We were born to die
Come and take a walk on the wild side,
Let me kiss you hard in the pouring rain,
You like your girls insane
So, don't make me sad,
Don't make me cry
Sometimes love is not enough,
And the road gets tough, I don't know why
Keep making me laugh,
Let's go get high-
The road is long,
We carry on,
Try to have fun in the meantime
Come and take a walk on the wild side,
Let me kiss you hard in the pouring rain,
You like your girls insane
So, choose your last words
This is the last time
'Cause you and I,
We were born to die,
We were born to die
I've tried to work out what these lyrics mean. In the music video, it ends with Lana dying in her boyfriends arms, but I think they were both trying to die. From my own knowledge I know that she had drink and drug problems, so maybe this has some contribution to the meaning of the song. I do think there is something to the religious references in the song, but I think they are meant to be a product of her turning to her faith when contemplating this doomed relationship. I think, like others, that "born to die," is meant to mean that their relationship was doomed from the beginning. I think she has realized what she wanted from a relationship, and it's not this guy (hence the "lost but now I am found" verse). But it is hard for her to accept it, perhaps because of all the fun times they've had, and so the whole song is coming from a very contemplative standpoint.
In the chorus, I think she's asking him not to talk seriously with her about their relationship because it's too depressing (don't make me sad, don't make me cry). She wants it to stay simple, she doesn't want to think about the fact that it probably won't work out (keep making me laugh, let's go get high). I think the "love is not enough" line suggests what she's realized, that no matter how strongly they feel about each other it just won't work out.
This is just an idea of mine but I'm curious of what ideas you have too :)
