The sixth track on Genesis' Invisible Touch album, this song is divided into two parts, "In the Glow of the Night" and "The Last Domino." They pieced them together because they liked the contrast, as the soft fade of the "In the Glow of the Night" gave way to the relentless open in "The Last Domino."
Keyboardist Tony Banks wrote the lyrics. He set the song in a Beirut hotel room, minutes after bombs start to fall on the city during the 1982 Lebanon War.
Talking about the lyrics in the Way We Walk DVD, Tony Banks said: "The first part is very personal, coming from an individual's point of view of how he might be affected by what one person set in motion without realizing what he was doing. It's a war situation I was thinking of where a guy has lost his woman, and his attitude of "look what you've done" in speaking to the guy who pressed the button that made the whole thing happen. The second half is a different approach. It's a more surreal approach to the idea with a nightmarish quality to it. The domino itself is the idea that there's nothing you can do if you're next in line. It sounds good when it's sung and it's also a good image."
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