This all became a part of Smith's mythos. Unless you're really listening for it, all you'll hear is Smith responding to himself: "So, do it." By the time it reaches the end of that frightening second chorus, Chiba's voice is buried so deep in the mix that you have to listen through headphones and turn it all the way up to discern her line. "King's Crossing" appeared on his posthumous From a Basement on the Hill as a terrifying centerpiece, a howl of voices that gives way to a funereal waltz before a cast of marionettes and skinny Santas show up to hurl viciousness at the protagonist.
Nine days later, off-balance after radically altering his narcotics intake, diet, and prescription meds, grappling with what seemed to be a resurfacing trauma from childhood, Smith killed himself at his home in Los Angeles. He writes that Smith recorded the vocals and then invited Chiba in to record her line: "Because I love you." He proposed to her there and then. In his essential piece on Smith's last days, Liam Gowing writes about that session at New Monkey studios. "King's Crossing" turned out to be the last song that Smith recorded, on October 12 2003.
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