On “13 Beaches,” Lana sings about escaping the paparazzi of the beaches she visited during the summer of 2016. She juxtaposes this with lyrics about covering her emotions—hiding and not accepting the loves she feels for a man who hurts her in the same way that the media does. She wants to escape him to finally feel alive. She’s searching for “something real,” as she mentions on the chorus, playing the game and getting used to it.

She previously dealt with her struggle for privacy from the paparazzi in “High By The Beach,” filmed at her condo on the beach that she mentions in the verses.