All licensed songs featured in Daredevil: Born Again Episode 5 and their connections to the plot

If there’s one thing Daredevil: Born Again does better than most Marvel series, it’s letting music speak where words don’t. Episode 5, titled With Interest, is a masterclass in how licensed tracks can shape atmosphere, deepen irony, and guide emotional tone, all while echoing the episode’s sharp commentary on institutions, identity, and power.

Set on St. Patrick’s Day, Daredevil: Born Again episode 5 doesn’t just bring back the red mask vibes, it pairs each narrative beat with a musical choice that adds texture, history, and a healthy dose of rebellion. Here’s how every licensed song in the episode doesn’t just play, it plays a role.

Daredevil: Born Again - A familiar theme reawakened

It opens with a haunting new take on the original Daredevil theme, composed by John Paesano and Braden Kimball. This isn’t just fan service, it’s connective tissue. In Daredevil: Born Again, Matt Murdock’s journey isn’t reset. It’s resurfaced. The music grounds us in something old that now feels new. The tone says it all without a single spoken line. He’s back, and the world isn’t ready.

The rocky road to Matt Murdock

Then comes The Rocky Road To Dublin, performed by the Young Dubliners. It’s loud, messy, traditional and full of movement, just like the episode itself. As the soundtrack to a St. Patrick’s Day gone off the rails, the song adds energy to the chaos. But beyond that, its lyrics about hardship, loss and defiance perfectly mirror Matt’s trajectory in Daredevil: Born Again episode 5.

This isn’t just a holiday setting. It’s a narrative echo. A man fighting through systems that don’t want him.

A legacy forged through stubborn survival. He walks into a bank where he's already been denied. He’s not trying to play nice anymore, just like the traveler in the song:

“In the merry month of June from me home I started / Left the girls of Tuam nearly broken hearted.”

There’s defiance in his stride, and humor in how he carries it, like in the verse:

“To see the lassies smile, laughing all the while / At me curious style, 'twould set your heart a bubblin’.”

And when things spiral into confrontation, the song throws this line:

“Blood began to boil, temper I was losing / Poor old Erin's isle they began abusing.”

The rhythm is constant, propulsive, relentless, just like Matt’s march toward vault 407.

Funeral bagpipes for the American dream

The placement of Pibroch Medley is almost cinematic. This traditional bagpipe piece, heard in the middle of the episode, turns the sterile bank environment into something ritualistic. It’s not just background music, it’s lament. For a dream denied. For a system that performs empathy but defaults to rejection. For a man who has to perform confidence just to reclaim what was his.

In Daredevil: Born Again, music like this is not ornamental. It’s spiritual. It becomes the hum beneath the silence, the feeling behind Matt’s stillness.

Daredevil: Born Again and the masked chaos behind orange, blue and green

Orange & Blue, Highroad To Linton brings instrumental tension. Its very title feels like a metaphor. Matt Murdock walks the high road, both literally and morally, while chaos erupts around him. The masked robbers wear primary colors—red, yellow, and blue—but there’s more going on. The leader wears green, which is the fusion of yellow and blue. The palette isn’t random. It’s a visual code for hierarchy, confusion, and control.

Orange, though absent, is formed by red and yellow. It’s there in spirit, like a ghost of rebellion. The combination of these colors becomes a kind of chromatic language that reflects the episode’s tension. These are not just robbers, they’re signals. Red for danger, yellow for caution, blue for cold precision, and green for leadership born out of instability.

The music reflects this contradiction. There is order beneath the noise, structure beneath the improvisation. Matt walks into this spectrum of anarchy without hesitation. The rhythm of the track mirrors his own internal compass. Calm, deliberate, and completely unfazed.

Enter Matt Murdock, cool and calculated with bossa nova on cue

What happens when a blind lawyer walks into a bank with a Funko Pop and starts whistling? You cue Bossa Nova Linda. Written by Anthony Mawer and performed by Valentino, it’s the last thing you’d expect, and that's exactly what the scene needs.

It turns the moment into theater, into swagger, into irony. In the hands of Daredevil: Born Again, the music is more than aesthetic. It’s subtext. The system won’t give Matt what he wants, so he takes it, stylishly, casually, with rhythm. The music undercuts the tension with charm, reasserting that Matt is always in control, even when everyone else thinks he’s not.

The soundtrack is not background, it is architecture

Every licensed song in Daredevil: Born Again episode 5 was chosen with surgical precision. Each track doesn’t just match the moment, it amplifies the message. From traditional Irish grit to the unexpected elegance of bossa nova, the soundtrack builds a layered world beneath the dialogue.

With Interest isn’t just a mid-season breather, it’s a turning point dressed as a party. And the soundtrack makes sure we feel it before we even understand it. In Daredevil: Born Again, sound is not just support. It’s strategy.