The Greatest Fear is the second single off of Parkway Drive’s seventh release, Darker Still.
In an article from NME, frontman Winston McCall comments on the single, saying;
The goal was to create a song that saw death not as something that separates, but something that connects us all on our paths...
[Verse 1]
Master of the darkness
Siren of the storm
Whisper in the silence
The king of nevermore
Keeper of the secrets
Reaper in the fall
Reigning here eternal
The king of nevermore
[Pre-Chorus]
The bells will ring
Virtue extolled
Behold, destiny, thy guidance
[Chorus]
Master of dominion, he's the shadow on the wall
His arms are always open
He's the name we leave unspoken
He's the king of nevermore
The harbinger of all
Dark matters
Dark matters
[Verse 2]
Breaker of the cycle
Seeker of the soul
Shepherd in the ether
Through the gates of nevermore
Look just beyond the pale
The truth is there to see for one and all
The answers that you seek
Lie just beyond his open door
[Pre-Chorus]
The bells will ring
Virtue extolled
Behold, destiny, thy guidance
[Chorus]
Master of dominion, he's the shadow on the wall
His arms are always open
He's the name we leave unspoken
He's the king of nevermore
The harbinger of all
Dark matters
[Post-Chorus]
In death
In death
In death we all sing the hymns of nevermore
(In death we all sing the hymns of nevermore)
(In death we all sing the hymns of nevermore)
Nevermore
Nevermore
[Bridge]
The promise, the constant
The requiem for every soul
Polaris inside us
We sing the hymns of nevermore
Nevermore
[Outro]
The harbinger of all
Dark matters
Dark matters
Dark matters
The Greatest Fear was written by Jeff Ling & Ben Gordon & Winston McCall.
The Greatest Fear was produced by George Hadji-Christou.
Parkway Drive released The Greatest Fear on Wed Jul 06 2022.