3. 'The Last Pale Light in the West' - Ben Nichols
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0yXxSOLFTQ Season 4, Episode 6 - Live Bait Having fled during the season 3 finale, The Governor returned in this sombre episode. We catch a glimpse of the man he once was before the world turned him into something worse, and this song literally seems as though it was written for The Governor himself. A brooding song, 'The Last Pale Light in the West' plays as a dishevelled Governor aimlessly roams the countryside. He's lost everything - his cronies, his power, his town. He burns Woodbury to the ground in what appears to be a casting off of the shackles of 'The Governor'. He wants perhaps, to try and start over. There is a last, pale light within him still. The lyrics fit perfectly. The Governor asks for no redemption. Yet he still believes and, yes, maybe even we do too, that there is a trace of a good man inside of him. 'The Last Pale Light in the West' sets up the mood for The Governor's struggle to return to normality the song speaks of someone that 'dark clouds gather round' and the 'setting sun' seem to foreshadowing his inevitable end. This song is perhaps one of the best choices they have ever made for the soundtrack in the series. It fits the episode and the character so very well the new world they live in, described in the lyrics as a 'cold, barren place' is a world that has changed The Governor forever. Is there a reflection of light left? Perhaps there was, once.