Lana Del Rey Moseys Into Her Country Era With Gentle ‘Henry Come On’ Single: Stream It Now
Written by djfrosty on April 11, 2025
If you were expecting fiddles and pedal steel on the first single from Lana Del Rey‘s upcoming The Right Person Will Stay album, then “Henry, Come On” will be (sort of) a let-down. The long-teased song — sometimes referred to as just “Henry” — is not a spurs jingle-jangling hard-right Cowboy Carter-style turn into country music that some fans were expecting when LDR said she was hoping to mine more of an Americana vein on the follow-up to 2023’s Did You Know There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd. album.
And while the lush ballad definitely leans into some country tropes — with references to hats hanging on walls, cowgirls and a bit of “giddy up” in the chorus — in general it’s in keeping with the singer’s tradition of doe-eyed romance and heartbreak, even if it does open with some gently plucked Willie Nelson-like nylon string guitar.
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“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,” Del Rey sings dreamily over gentle guitar as subtle piano and strings swell on the chorus of the song she co-wrote with Laird, who produced it with the singer and Drew Erickson. “Last call, ‘Hey, ya’ll’/ Hang his hat up on the wall,” she sings hauntingly. “Tell him that his cowgirl is gone/ Go on and giddy up/ Soft like blue jeans/ Call us into forest dreams/ Return it but say it was fun.”
The song appears to tell the tale of a restless woman with an affinity for holding the hands of down home country singers who fly “too close to the sun” and might not be the “settle down type.” In other words, the classic LDR type.
Back in November, Del Rey said the 13-track The Right Person Will Stay album will drop on May 21st, featuring production from frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff, as well as Zachary Dawes and Laird (Kacey Musgraves). Last January, the singer teased a country album she was then calling Lasso, and which she promised would be released in September 2024. “We’re going country!” she said at the time. “It’s happening.” She previewed “Henry, Come On,” that same month, though neither the song nor the album came to fruition on the timeline she originally teased.
Either way, you can fully expect “Henry” to get a live run-through when Del Ray takes the stage for the first night of the Stagecoach Festival on April 25.
Stream “Henry, Come On” now.