Sia - Kill And Run Lyrics

• Kami says:

  May 2, 2013 at 6:25 am

  At first, I wasn’t much of a fan of this song, but then I analyzed the lyrics.

  This seems to be a representation of Daisy’s feelings (Or from Daisy’s perspective) from the movie, The Great Gatsby.

  At the end of the story, we all know of the tragedy that unfolds, that may or may not have been of a direct consequence of Daisy’s doing (or better, her choice to not tell the whole story, that SHE was in fact the one driving, therefore, the one guilty of manslaughter. No one knew for sure if she was the one who told it was Gatsby who ran Myrtle over, or not, we just know that she did not tell the truth. Rather selfish of her, seeing that Gatsby would go to great lengths (good and bad,) to be with her, while she had chosen to almost literally throw him under the bus. Gatsby was ruined by that which he loved most.

  One thing the book, The Great Gatsby, does not go in depth with, is DAISY’s perspective, what she if feeling, and who she truly is. A lot of her character is left undeveloped, all we know is that she is a rather static, 1-D character, and maybe it was Fitzgerald’s purpose to leave her ambiguous so as to focus the story more narrowly on Gatsby…

  SO. Naturally, I have come to like this song more and more because it gives Daisy more of a voice. Admitting she is “one of the dirty guns” and how she “follow the hands as they move, try to make out your move, but my brain doesn’t want to” (the lyrics are wrong above,) she is a character who refuses to see the truth of her ultimately unsatisfying and material situation, which is just as strong as Gatsby’s own refusal to see that there are some rewards ambition even cannot reap; that some things cannot be had, or rather, there are some things you /should not/ have.

  So in the end, we see a definite statement here in this song, that it was, indeed, Daisy who has “put a bullet through [Gatsby’s] heart.”

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