#Living in darkness album lyrics driver#

But of course, in the film in question, it also refers to the feelings of the female sniper when James Bond is scaring the living daylights out of her by almost killing her.

When Bond retires, he might have many memories that would scare the living daylights out of him for the rest of his life. In all situations, it may not be necessary, so he can also be seen as the man to be blamed. As James Bond thinks in the novel, Goldfinger (1959), he hates killing, but he still needs to do it. An secret agent would often make choices that could be seen as morally ambiguous, as James Bond has often done. In a sense, this song was a perfect song for the theme for a James Bond -film. When we can not see if we had done morally right or wrong, we will be faced by the memories of those choices until we die. We often make choices that can be seen as ”choices on the gray area”. The song is, in my interpretation, trying to say that we are not living in the world where everything can be seen as black and white. The memory from the past would scare the living daylights out of him for the rest of his life. The darkness would not fade away, whenever he would go. By the way, they started their travel in the darkness, possibly nowhere to go.Īs they were moving along, he felt that it would make no difference.

#Living in darkness album lyrics driver#

One night, he decided to leave (with possibly the woman he loved), and because he had no idea where to go, he decided to ask the driver for a better idea. There were a lot of people who had been involved in his failure, but he was still the one to be blamed. He felt that he could not live in the city anymore. Maybe wishing to stay in the city where he was living and having a job as a cop, and hoping to have a peaceful retirement some day. On his younger days, he might have set his hopes too high. Nobody could not prove that the cop was guilty or not, not even himself. As the cop was coming closer, the criminal suddenly jumped off the bridge and committed suicide. There were eyewitnesses, who could have been involved in the situation, but they were just looking. Then they came across to place like a bridge, and the cop was going to arrest the criminal. He had gone after a criminal and was chasing after him. My version goes: He used to be a cop, he lived a dangerous live, scaring the living daylights out of the criminals, as they did for him. The background story is not revealed, but it can be imagined. I understand that the protagonist on these lyrics is a person, who has lived his life on the edge.