There was a lot of mystery regarding Lana Del Rey’s upcoming album Norman F*cking Rockwell in 2018, but this year, she has shed some more light on the situation: A few days ago, she shared a new song, “Hope Is A Dangerous Thing For A Woman Like Me To Have — But I Have It.” Now she has shared a brief teaser of another new song, which Shazam identifies as “Happiness Is A Butterfly.” The brief clip for the gentle song looks like an old-school home video, and shows Del Rey and other women playing with butterflies.
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This isn’t the first time Del Rey has previewed this song. She first teased it in March, when she tweeted a poem (in a since-deleted tweet) that’s often incorrectly credited to Nathaniel Hawthorne or Henry David Thoreau, which reads, “Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” Later that month, she shared a 30-second clip of the song on Instagram, and included a snippet of lyrics that read, “Happiness is a butterfly / Try to catch it like every night / It escapes from my hands / into moonlight. / Every day is a lullaby / I hum it on the phone like every night / and sing it for my babies on the tourlyfe.”
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There is not yet a release date for Norman F*cking Rockwell, although a press release for “Hope Is A Dangerous Thing” revealed that the album will come out in “mid-2019.”
Listen to the new snippet of “Happiness Is A Butterfly” above.
