Henry, come on

Album

Single

Label

Interscope Records

Genre

Country

Composer(s)

Lana Del Rey;Luke Laird

Entered Chart

Apr 26, 2025

Peak Date

Apr 26, 2025

Released

April 11, 2025

Released on April 11, 2025, "Henry, Come On" is Lana Del Rey's first dispatch from the land of broken hearts and Southern humidity since her marriage to Jeremy Dufrene. The song concerns an entirely different sort of man to her husband: one with commitment issues. "Henry, Come On" is a wistful, gently swaying country ballad. Del Rey floats above a delicately finger-picked acoustic guitar, offering her own take on the country tradition of lyrical wounding. We meet her midway through an argument with the titular Henry, who seems to be under the impression that the relationship's collapse is her fault. This is not an unusual stance for him. Del Rey eventually lands on a theory: she is cosmically doomed to fall for men who are dreamers, drifters, and people with poetic excuses for not being the "settle-down type." The chorus is peak Lana Del Rey: cowboy hats, soft leather, and blue jeans; staples of her ongoing quest to out-Americana America. They're symbols in her personal mythology, standing in for everything tender, rugged, and emotionally unavailable. It's the same aesthetic Del Rey has threaded throughout her discography, such as "Blue Jeans," about her blue-jeaned, James Dean-lookalike heartbreaker, and "Tough," Del Rey's 2024 duet with Quavo, which features leather boots and a defiant, dirt-under-the-nails charm you could bottle and sell at truck stops. Although "Henry, Come On" was released after Del Rey's wedding, the song has nothing to do with her husband. The character "Henry" is almost certainly a composite figure stitched together from half-remembered arguments, denim daydreams, and possibly a few lines from a Faulkner novel. Lana Del Rey co-wrote "Henry, Come On" with Luke Laird, whose previous credits read like a who's who of country radio: Kacey Musgraves, Carrie Underwood, Tim McGraw are among the names on his resumé. The cover art is classic Del Rey: a portrait of her glancing over her shoulder as if she's just remembered something slightly tragic from 1957. It's all very dreamy, very soft-focus, very Lana. And that, really, is the point.

I mean, Henry, come on
Do you think I'd really choose it?
All this off and on
Henry, come on
I mean, baby, come on
Do you think I'd really lose it on ya
If you did nothin' wrong?
Henry, come on

Last call, "Hey, y'all"
Hang his hat up on the wall
Tell him that his cowgirl is gone
Go on and giddy up
Soft leather, blue jeans
Call us into void's dreams
Return it but say it was fun

And it's not because of you
That I turned out so dangerous
Yesterday, I heard God say, "It's in your blood"
And it struck me just like lightning
I've been fightin', I've been strivin'
Yesterday, I heard God say
"You were born to be the one
To hold the hand of the man
Who flies too close to the sun"

I'll still be nice to your mom
It's not her fault you're leavin'
Some people come and they're gone
They just fly away
Take your ass to the house
Don't even bother explainin'
There's no workin' it out
No way

It's last call, "Hey, y'all"
Hang his hat up on the wall
Tell him that his cowgirl is gone
Go on and giddy up
Soft leather, blue jeans
Don't you get it? That's the thing
You can't chase a ghost when it's gone

And it's not because of you
That I turned out so dangerous
Yesterday, I heard God say, "It's in your blood"
And it struck me just like lightning
I've been fightin', I've been strivin'
But yesterday, I heard God say
"You were born to be the one
To hold the hand of the man
Who flies too close to the sun"

All these country singers
And their lonely rides to Houston
Doesn't really make for the best
You know, settle-down type

It's last call, "Hey, y'all"
Hang his hat up on the wall
Tell him that his cowgirl is gone
Go on and giddy up
Last call, "Hey, y'all"
Hang his hat up on the wall
Tell him that his cowgirl is gone
Go on and giddy up
Go on and giddy up
Go on and giddy up
Hey