Even when she’s singing about Coca Cola, prom queens, Hollywood, and video games—stuff Americans are supposed to like—Lana Del Rey has a way of bumming everyone out.

Lana Del Rey, 'Ultraviolence': Track-by-Track Album Review

Her 2012 breakthrough, “Born to Die,” more than lived up to its fatalistic title, and the following year, LDR scored her biggest hit to date with Cedric Gervais’ remix of “Summertime Sadness,” an up-tempo dance tune about young lovers joyriding toward certain doom. Lana’s latest, “Ultraviolence,” might be her most depressing album yet, as she swaps the sweeping pop-cultural iconography of her previous work for harrowing close-ups of ladies in distress.

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The tighter focus heightens the drama, and thanks to Dan Auerbach’s stark production, Del Rey makes a nifty shift away from the overblown sonics of “Born to Die.” She effectively pulls a reverse Springsteen, moving from ironic flag-waving to bleak Americana, as if the Boss had cut “Nebraska” after “Born In the U.S.A.,” instead of the other way around. Read on to see our picks for the five most tragic “Ultraviolence” lyrics. There were plenty to choose from.

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