sentences:  The chorus uses a question-and-answer format, with the group Sons of the Desert singing the questions, as the narrator's conscience, and Herndon, the narrator, performing the answers — until the last line, where they all sing together.The song is in the key of E major.Sundrud wrote the song while a member of the band Great Plains, and was working with Bickhardt for songs on what would become that band's second album "Homeland".