| Lana Del Rey – Young and Beautiful Lyrics | 9 years ago |
| This song is so underrated it is RIDICULOUS! It captures the very essence of The Great Gatsby brilliantly. It is from the perspective of Daisy Buchanan, the character and the symbol. Daisy is the reason for Gatsby's everything. She's a pretentious snob; beautiful, unattainable. What does she mean? She IS money, wealth, success. Poor boys can't date rich girls, so Gatsby becomes s billionaire to have her finally, but even that isn't enough. IT IS NEVER ENOUGH! All those shirts, the parties, the money; he will never be good enough. Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful? It's rhetorical...it's a siren song...he'll never know her when she's no longer young and beautiful because he'll die before he gets that chance. Daisy only has power because he gives it to her...he makes her shine like diamonds and not the other way around...dear Lord when I get to Heaven...that is the promise of salvation she is suppose to give but of course does not...because in the end, money can't buy you those things. Your soul is your responsibility and you can't find it in someone or something else. Daisy is the American Dream, a facade to distract us from the real work. She is what you think you want, young and beautiful, until she is not. She gets old and no longer desirable...pulling the proverbial curtain up and seeing the wizard is no wizard, just a flawed and pathetic man with power only because you give it to him; like God. | |
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