Waiting For Darkness

The speaker longs for darkness and resists the arrival of light. The repeated refrain makes this wish sound insistent, almost like a refuge from something unbearable. The mood is frustrated and weary: the speaker feels ignored by others, then describes being trapped between promises of freedom and experiences of confinement.

Light and darkness may mean more than daytime and night. Light can suggest exposure or a truth the speaker does not want to face, while darkness may offer shelter, though it is not necessarily safe. “Deafened by silence” is a striking contradiction: silence is so complete that it feels overwhelming, as if nobody will listen. The lines about being promised “rebirth” and then locked in a “tomb” contrast renewal with imprisonment, expressing betrayal or disappointment.

The lyrics also suggest that people see what they already expect to see: the answer is “in their mind.” This could be criticism of narrow thinking, or a sign that the speaker distrusts other people’s judgments. The final questions—whether darkness is friend or foe, and whether some things should remain unknown—keep the meaning unsettled. Darkness may be desired as an escape, but the song does not make clear whether that escape brings comfort or simply deeper isolation.