This is a song about Mark David Chapman, the man who killed John Lennon.
"Some of them standing, some waiting in line," refers to all the people in the crowd Chapman stood in to get a look at John Lennon or get an autograph for his then-new album "Double Fantasy."
"What was it that brought you out here in the dark?" Chapman was from sunny Honolulu and traveled all the way to New York City in the dark month of December to murder Lennon.
The weapon in this version of the events is changed from a pistol to a knife, probably because it rhymes better in the general scheme of things, but this is absolutely an outcry against Chapman by David Gilmour because Chapman killed Lennon who was an icon to not only him but millions of people. This would have been a good song to put over the end credits of that Jared Leto movie "Chapter 27."
This is a song about Mark David Chapman, the man who killed John Lennon.
"Some of them standing, some waiting in line," refers to all the people in the crowd Chapman stood in to get a look at John Lennon or get an autograph for his then-new album "Double Fantasy."
"What was it that brought you out here in the dark?" Chapman was from sunny Honolulu and traveled all the way to New York City in the dark month of December to murder Lennon.
The weapon in this version of the events is changed from a pistol to a knife, probably because it rhymes better in the general scheme of things, but this is absolutely an outcry against Chapman by David Gilmour because Chapman killed Lennon who was an icon to not only him but millions of people. This would have been a good song to put over the end credits of that Jared Leto movie "Chapter 27."