Subtle lyrical nods to Stephen King's "The Stand" and Fear Factory's "What Will Become" enhance this final track of the COVID-19 pandemic themed suite, and it ends with only questions
lyrics
By Nightfall
What are we to do
Now that we have a view
of what will become? What will it be?
When we have forever changed our eternity?
Have we gone too far
Do our eyes not see the star
that we used to know where we should go?
The road seems our only surety
Will we need to make a stand?
One on one, man to man?
Or are we in the nowhere land together?
No going back, nowhere to turn around
Together we are bound
The choices left to make are the ones
that will save or bring us down
The dark man whose name is legion wants us dead by nightfall
Slow down, go down
No way around the final question
Say it aloud,
Are we too late to save what we were?
No going back, nowhere to turn around
Together we are bound
Through the black, down, down, down
Until we hear the sound
Of the choices that we made,
The things we could do without ring out loud
The dark man whose name is legion wants us dead by nightfall
The weasel in the corn
The shadow taken form
The desert firestorm
The duality at our core
credits
from We Are What We Need,
track released September 19, 2021
All instruments, vocals, mixing - Frank R. Serafine