‘Yayo’ is a track from Lana Del Rey’s 2012 EP Paradise, released less than a year after her breakthrough album, Born to Die.
This is actually the third release of this song. It first appeared on a 2008 three-song EP titled Kill Kill under Del Rey’s given name, Lizzie Grant. The same version showed up on Del Rey’s self-titled full-length debut, released in 2010 but subsequently removed from circulation.
While that debut album is available on YouTube, it never got an official re-release after Del Rey bought the rights from the independent label on which she recorded it. To date, ‘Yayo’ is the only song from the album to show up on a future release.
The song, about an affair with a drug dealer nicknamed Yayo (a Spanish word for cocaine), was rerecorded for the Paradise EP, the original’s acoustic guitar backing replaced with piano and the whole thing given a more dramatic, orchestral treatment.
I like the snake on your tattoo
I like the ivy and the ink blue
Yayo, yes, you, yayo
You have to take me right now
From this dark trailer park life now
Yayo, how now, yayo
[Chorus]
Put me onto your black motorcycle
’50s baby doll dress for my “I do”
It only takes two hours to Nevada
I wear your sparkle
You call me your mama
Let me put on a show for you, daddy
Let me put on a show
Let me put on a show for you, tiger
Ahh-ah-ah, let me put on a show
[Verse 2]
I need you like a baby when I hold you
Like a druggie, like I told you
Yayo, yeah you, yayo
[Chorus]
Put me onto your black motorcycle
’50s baby doll dress for my “I do”
It only takes two hours to Nevada
I wear your sparkle
You call me your mama
Let me put on a show for you, daddy
Let me put on a show
Let me put on a show for you, tiger
Ahh-ah-ah, let me put on a show
[Bridge]
Hello, heaven, you are a tunnel lined with yellow lights
On a dark night
Yayo, yes you, yayo
[Chorus]
Put me onto your black motorcycle
’50s baby doll dress for my “I do”
It only takes two hours to Nevada
I wear your sparkle
You call me your mama
Let me put on a show for you, daddy
Let me put on a show
Let me put on a show for you, tiger
Ahh-ah-ah, let me put on a show
Meet Me In Montauk 
This song has been on quite the journey!