Chemtrails Over The Country Club – English Lyrics

• By: Lana Del Rey
• Album: Chemtrails Over The Country Club

Lyrics & Translation

Learning a language through music is a fantastic journey, and Lana Del Rey's 'Chemtrails Over The Country Club' offers a unique opportunity to explore nuanced English vocabulary and complex emotional themes. The song's lyrics are poetic and rich with imagery, allowing learners to delve into themes of nostalgia, suburbia, and the complexities of identity. What makes this song special for language learning is its narrative quality and the way Del Rey plays with contrasting ideas, providing a rich context for understanding subtleties in language.

[English]

I'm on the run with you, my sweet love

There's nothing wrong contemplating God

Under the chemtrails over the country club

Wearing our jewels in the swimming pool

Me and my sister just playin' it cool

Under the chemtrails over the country club

Take out your turquoise and all of your jewels

Go to the market, the kids' swimming pools

Baby, what's your sign?

My moon's in Leo, my Cancer is sun

You won't play, you're no fun

Well, I don't care what they think

Drag racing my little red sports car

I'm not unhinged or unhappy, I'm just wild

I'm on the run with you, my sweet love

There's nothing wrong contemplating God

Under the chemtrails over the country club

Wearing our jewels in the swimming pool

Me and my sister just playin' it cool

Under the chemtrails over the country club

Meet you for coffee

At the elementary schools

We laugh about nothing

As the summer gets cool

It's beautiful, how this deep

Normality settles down over me

I'm not bored or unhappy

I'm still so strange and wild

You're in the wind, I'm in the water

Nobody's son, nobody's daughter

Watching the chemtrails over the country club

Suburbia, The Brentwood Market

What to do next? Maybe we'll love it

White picket, chemtrails over the country club

My love, my love

Washing my hair, doing the laundry

Late night TV, I want you on me

Like when we were kids

Under chemtrails and country clubs

It's never too late, baby, so don't give up

It's never too late, baby, so don't give up

Under the chemtrails over the country club

(You're born in the December, I'm born in June)

Yeah

Under the chemtrails over the country club

(You're born in the December, I'm born in June)

Yeah, my Cancer is sun and my Leo is moon

...

My Cancer is sun and my Leo is moon

...

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
run /rʌn/ A1	verb - to move quickly on foot
love /lʌv/ A1	noun - an intense feeling of affection
wrong /rɒŋ/ A1	adjective - not correct or true; incorrect
country /ˈkʌntri/ A1	noun - a nation with its own government
club /klʌb/ A2	noun - an organization of people with a common purpose or interest
pool /puːl/ A1	noun - a small area of still water
sister /ˈsɪstər/ A1	noun - a female sibling
cool /kuːl/ A1	adjective - of a fairly low temperature
jewel /ˈdʒuːəl/ B1	noun - a precious stone
market /ˈmɑːrkɪt/ A1	noun - a place where people go to buy or sell things
sign /saɪn/ A2	noun - an object, quality, or event whose presence or occurrence indicates the probable presence or occurrence of something else.
fun /fʌn/ A1	noun - enjoyment or amusement
racing /ˈreɪsɪŋ/ B1	noun - the activity of competing in races
wild /waɪld/ B1	adjective - living or growing in the natural environment; not domesticated or cultivated
coffee /ˈkɔːfi/ A1	noun - a hot drink made from roasted coffee beans
summer /ˈsʌmər/ A1	noun - the warmest season of the year
wind /wɪnd/ A1	noun - the perceptible natural movement of the air, especially in the form of a current of air blowing from a particular direction.
water /ˈwɔːtər/ A1	noun - a colorless, transparent, odorless liquid that forms the seas, lakes, rivers, and rain and is the basis of the fluids of living organisms.
laundry /ˈlɔːndri/ B1	noun - clothes and linens that have been or are to be washed.

Key Grammar Structures

• I'm on the run with you, my sweet love

  ➔ Present continuous as future

  ➔ Using the present continuous "I'm on the run" to express a planned or arranged future action. It implies a sense of immediacy or certainty about the event.

• There's nothing wrong contemplating God

  ➔ Gerund as object of a preposition

  ➔ The gerund "contemplating" functions as the object of the preposition "wrong". "There's nothing wrong" + doing something, the "doing" part is a gerund.

• Wearing our jewels in the swimming pool

  ➔ Present participle clause (reduced relative clause)

  ➔ "Wearing our jewels in the swimming pool" is a reduced relative clause. It's equivalent to "While we are wearing our jewels..." or "As we are wearing..." providing additional information about the main clause's subject. It describes an action happening at the same time.

• My moon's in Leo, my Cancer is sun

  ➔ Ellipsis

  ➔ The full sentence would be "My moon is in Leo, my Cancer is sun". The verb "is" is ellipted in the second clause to avoid repetition, common in informal language and song lyrics.

• Well, I don't care what they think

  ➔ Indirect question/embedded question

  ➔ "What they think" is an indirect question acting as the object of the verb "care". The structure shifts from the direct question form ("What do they think?") to a clause embedded within a statement.

• Drag racing my little red sports car

  ➔ Noun adjunct/attributive noun

  ➔ "Drag racing" acts as a noun adjunct, modifying the noun phrase "my little red sports car." It specifies the type of activity involving the car. Note that "drag racing" is also a gerund, but in this case, functions adjectivally.

• I'm not unhinged or unhappy, I'm just wild

  ➔ Coordinating conjunction ('or')

  ➔ The coordinating conjunction "or" connects two adjectives, "unhinged" and "unhappy", presenting them as alternatives that the speaker is denying. It shows that she is neither one of those things.

• It's beautiful, how this deep Normality settles down over me

  ➔ Cleft sentence with 'how'

  ➔ This is a cleft sentence where "how this deep Normality settles down over me" is emphasized. A standard sentence structure would be "This deep normality settles down over me beautifully", but the cleft structure highlights the manner in which the normality settles.