Album: The Best of James Bond

The Living Daylights [A-ha]


Words and music by John Barry and Pal Waaktaar

Hey driver, where are we going?
I swear, my nerves are showing
Set my hopes up way too high
The living's in the way we die

Comes the morning and the headlines fade away
Hundred thousand people, I'm the one they frame
I've been waiting long for one of us to say
Spare the darkness, let it never fade away

Ooohh, the living daylights
Ooohh, the living daylights (the living daylights)

Alright, hold on tight now,
It's down, down to the wire
Get your hopes up way too high
The living's in the way we die

Comes the morning and the headlines fade away
Hundred thousand changes, everything's the same
I've been waiting long for one of us to say
Save the darkness, let it never fade away

Ooohh, the living daylights
Ooohh, the living daylights (the living daylights)
Ooohh, the living daylights (the living daylights)

Comes the morning and the headlines fade away
Hundred thousand people, I'm the one they frame
Ooohh, the living daylights
Ooohh, the living daylights (the living daylights)
(the living daylights) set your hopes up way too high
(the living daylights) the living's in the way we die
(the living daylights) set your hopes up way too high