In 2017, the song was re-recorded for Phoebe Bridgers' debut album, Stranger in the Alps, where it was released through Dead Oceans. Parts of the song have also been re-visited for the song Killer + The Sound, a mashup of the song The Sound by Noah Gundersen and Killer.
But Lewis says he never really heard any chilling stories about Possum Kingdom, specifically. No one ever told him anything about the vampires or vengeful ghosts or secret cults supposedly hiding in the woods. To him, Possum Kingdom just seemed like the kind of place where something bad could happen. And because he put it in a song, many people have come to be convinced that it did.
Keep going, the song bids listeners. They want us to keep standing where we are, rising each day, even when it involves unfathomable awfulness, because there is hope of life with God on the other side.
Michael Render (born April 20, 1975),[1] better known by his stage name Killer Mike, is an American hip hop recording artist and occasional actor from Atlanta, Georgia. He is the founder of Grind Time Official Records, which he launched through the SMC and Fontana Distribution. Mike made his debut on "Snappin' and Trappin'", from OutKast's 2000 LP Stankonia, and later appeared on the Grammy-winning song "The Whole World", a single from OutKast's greatest hits album Big Boi and Dre Present...OutKast.