When the storm arrives, would you be seen with meīond is dealing with - or trying to repress - the guilt at having killed in cold blood. OK, who is speaking here? Is it Bond? Or is it someone else? Is it his target, the gentleman in the chair whom Bond is about to dispatch? Is it M? If it's Bond speaking, could he be talking to Vesper? Or could he be talking TO the man in the chair? I think it's the latter. If you take a life, do you know what you'll give? What was the lyricist trying to say in these lines? Here's my take:
Like some of you, I'm a writer by trade, and so the lyrics to 'YKMN' instantly became a puzzle for me.