There are definitely a couple of thematic throughlines that are really helpful in orienting the listener. One of them being family, one of them being the idea of child rearing. There’s a lot about death. There’s a lot about the idea of legacy and questions about the future too. There’s also the lyric “let the light in,” which is itself the throughline in the song “Kintsugi.” It’s also a reference to Leonard Cohen, and then there’s an echo of it in the song “Let the Light In,” featuring Father John Misty. Those reverberations are internal in terms of Lana’s discography and then external in terms of all of the references that she is making to other artists.
