Lana Del Rey donates tour proceeds back to the cities she's visited on mini US tour

Before performing Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd – the title track to her latest album which was released earlier this year – she took a moment to address the crowd with gratitude for their support.

She revealed that she has been putting money made from tours back into the cities that she's played in, because she's doing it for the love of playing shows, not for money.

"I just wanted to say thank you to you and to every city I’ve gone to before this. I also want to let you know – for what it’s worth – every ticket, every dollar, it is poured right back into the city. Because it’s not about that for me," she explains. "I know that that sounds cheesy, but I do it ’cause I love it. I don’t need to. I just love it, and we’re all about the places that we’ve been to. We’re just going to leave quickly after West Virginia. So I just wanted to kind of say hello, goodbye. I hope it’s not the last time we see you."

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Lana Del Rey's tour included stops in Franklin, Tennessee in September before heading to Texas, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

Ahead of the release of her 2020 poetry book Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass, Del Rey revealed that half of her book advance would be donated to Dig Deep’s Navajo Water Project, helping to provide Navajo Nation with access to clean water.

At the time, she wrote: "As I’ve been lucky enough to be given an advance from Simon and Schuster, I’m so grateful to be able to spread that money around to foundations that are in need of our help, beginning with foundations connected to the Navajo community. We hope the @digdeepwater project will find relief with the $350,000 that we delivered to them last month. I personally have always believed in personal reparations to give back to the people who have shaped our land.”