Released: June 22, 1987
Songwriter: John Barry Pål Waaktaar-Savoy
Producer: John Barry Pål Waaktaar-Savoy Magne Furuholmen Jason Corsaro
[Verse 1]
Hey driver, where we going?
I swear my nerves are showing
Set your hopes up way too high
The living's in the way we die
[Pre-Chorus]
Comes the morning and the headlights fade away
Hundred thousand people, I'm the one they frame
I've been waiting long for one of us to say
"Save the darkness, let it never fade away"
[Chorus]
Oh, the living daylights
Oh, the living daylights
[Verse 2]
All right, hold on tight now
It's down, down to the wire
Set your hopes up way too high
The living's in the way we die
[Pre-Chorus]
Comes the morning and the headlights 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"
[Chorus]
Oh, the living daylights
Oh, the living daylights
Oh, the living daylights
[Interlude]
[Pre-Chorus]
Comes the morning and the headlights fade away
Hundred thousand people, I'm the one they frame
[Chorus]
Oh, the living daylights
Oh, the living daylights
Oh, the living daylights
[Outro]
Set your hopes up way too high
The living's in the way we die
Set your hopes up way too high
The living's in the way we die
Set your hopes up way too high
The living's in the way we die
Set your hopes up way too high
The living's in the way we die
Set your hopes up way too high
The living's in the way we die
Hey driver, where we going?
I swear my nerves are showing
Set your hopes up way too high
The living's in the way we die
[Pre-Chorus]
Comes the morning and the headlights fade away
Hundred thousand people, I'm the one they frame
I've been waiting long for one of us to say
"Save the darkness, let it never fade away"
[Chorus]
Oh, the living daylights
Oh, the living daylights
[Verse 2]
All right, hold on tight now
It's down, down to the wire
Set your hopes up way too high
The living's in the way we die
[Pre-Chorus]
Comes the morning and the headlights 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"
[Chorus]
Oh, the living daylights
Oh, the living daylights
Oh, the living daylights
[Interlude]
[Pre-Chorus]
Comes the morning and the headlights fade away
Hundred thousand people, I'm the one they frame
[Chorus]
Oh, the living daylights
Oh, the living daylights
Oh, the living daylights
[Outro]
Set your hopes up way too high
The living's in the way we die
Set your hopes up way too high
The living's in the way we die
Set your hopes up way too high
The living's in the way we die
Set your hopes up way too high
The living's in the way we die
Set your hopes up way too high
The living's in the way we die
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