The Walking Dead season 8 episode 9 'Honour': What song was used in the opening scene of Carl's final episode? Who sings it?

*Minor spoilers for the episode's opening below*

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The Walking Dead returned with what many are deeming the show’s most emotional episode to date as one of its longest-standing characters met their end.

As expected, the episode featured the final stand for Carl Grimes (Chandler Riggs) who succumbed to a walker bite he suffered in an earlier season 8 episode.

The opening of the episode - titled ‘Honour’ - caught viewers up on Carl’s journey from the moment he got bitten to the tunnels underneath Alexandria as we learned of his fate at the same time as his father Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and surrogate mother, Michonne (Danai Gurira).

After getting bitten while helping Siddiq kill the undead in this season’s sixth episode, a flashback shows Carl head back to Alexandria where he came to terms with his impending death by writing letters to his loved ones, enjoying downtime with baby sister Judith and revelling in the sunshine -all to the soundtrack of Bright Eyes song “At the Bottom of Everything.”

Written by frontman Conor Oberst, it is the opening track from 2005 album I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning. You can listen to it on Spotify below.

One section of the song contains the below lyrics which seem to relate to Carl’s attempts to prevent his father from resorting to violence after he dies.

“While my mother waters plants
My father loads his gun
He says death will give us back to god
Just like the setting sun”

The Walking Dead season 8 continues on AMC every Sunday with the UK premiere arriving the next evening on FOX. The episode will also be shown on NOWTV.

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