The Killers tell a dark tale in ‘Run for Cover’ video
Watch the Killers beautifully cinematic video for “Run for Cover,” a slow-mo thriller filled with deceit, destruction, and according to fans, Donald Trump.
The Killers tell a dark tale in their new video “Run For Cover,” the thrilling second single off their first album in five years, Wonderful Wonderful.
Told in a steady slow motion, it follows a wronged woman running down a lonely highway with a single pair of headlights gaining on her with every step. Scenes intermittently cut to The Killers, eerily silent and hovering near-motionless in the darkness. Watch below:
Director Tarik Mikou tells her story in the way people tend to remember traumatic events — in pieces and out of order, opening with what is chronologically the last scene. A barefoot woman tellingly walks out of the woods and morning fog onto an open road.
Flashbacks show a couple in a window-walled mansion, alternating between quiet tension and heated arguments until a mysterious phone call and white tape finally prompt the woman to run for it — with the tape in hand and partner in pursuit. She won’t get away unscathed but thanks to a Molotov cocktail, neither will he.
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned indeed.
If you’re still in the mood for mysteries, make sure to take a good look at the driver about 1:40 minutes in. With lyrics calling out politicians who publically humiliate their wives and with talk of fake news, fans have long suspected the song is about Donald Trump. The driver certainly has a familiar hair style.