T. Seaver Photography Same thing here! I first heard it when I was younger playing Guitar Hero 2 years ago. Then 4 days ago my bro was playing it in his car and I fell in love with it all over!
I'm 13 and I love older music so much! It's so much better then what we have today with Taylor Swift and Harry Styles, Suicide boys etc. I feel like people back then and bands had so much more talent then today there are songs from today that are good but nothing compares to 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s, even early 00s music! ❤
You are so right love to go back and all the concerts again Collective soul 7 Mary 3. Garbage Bush. Live. Stone temple pilots aaaawwww and many more im 60 y o white women and still grunge
+Moonster i an 57 years old and i have listend to everything that has been recorded both studio and live and black market bootleg music.The 90's in my own opinion was the best sound of all time.
this song gets me going. glad my first love had good taste in music, bc nobody else I know is familiar with it. I love how music can but you in a different time, even if its temporary. thanks dag.
A song I can never get tired of, I love the whole album. Still jam this kind of music, the 1990s had some of the best music come out. In the 1990s when I was a kid I loved the video for this, I watched MTV constantly and it's so sad how it is now cause when this came out MTV rocked I loved it
For the longest time, I wrongly thought this was Everclear. That made me search their library for hours trying to find this song to no avail. It was great that one of my work friends finally pointed me in the right direction.
Ok, I am 13 and I must say, this song is among the best I have ever heard. People say young people have no taste in music but me and my grandmother can listen to this together and love it equally
One of many early 90's groups that didn't get the exposure they deserved. "Rubberneck" is one of those albums that doesn't have one bad song in the set.
So beautiful music for me thank you so much for this beautiful music. My favorite part in This music is ( i can promise you i will traet you well my sweet angel so help me jesus 😅😍😍😍
They still tock!! This song was released before internet, I heard this song on radio for weeks, but could never catch the flippin DJ give artist and title.. so I used to ask people "hey you know the song that goes "Do you wanna be my angel, so help me Jesus".. and my singing voice was awful, they laughed at me.. so I said "do you wanna die, do you wanna die?" Seen em thrice, have all their new stuff, thanks for being a part of my musical journey!!
Whenever i hear this song i think of my friend who sang this to me on AIM (AOL instant messenger).. unfortunately he died a while back of an OD but i always smile and think of him when i hear this song.🖤
My dad showed me this song some time last year and this is the first time I've listened to it by myself. Glad to say I got my music taste from my parents.
+Pas de tes patates I have to agree: "Creepy as fuck". I know the band says it's about vampires or something, but the music video and the lyrics.... I'm hearing serial murderer.
+Trevor Williams wtf lol they are not about any of that crap they actually are just a 90's alt/grunge bad and he talks about god in alot of there songs its a mixed message on the matter but there as average as Weezer or nirvana. great band tho.
Id go ahead and pull yhe 80s from thst list with a few exceptions that was some horrible music durring thst time but i think it opened it up for the greatness that was the 90s
I heard this song on the radio yesterday and it was stuck in my head all day. My fiance got mad at me cuz I kept singing it when we were going to sleep. LOL!
From Waco. I think there was a church youth group camp there a while back. Real conservative. Then a murder happened at the lake. Creeped everyone out. That's what I heard.
Had a lake house at possum kingdom when this song came out. I was in my mid teens, going with my friends to see their show was great. Can’t believe it’s been so long. Such a rush of emotions when listening to this again. I remember the girl I was dating and the one I snuck out to be with.
lol at 12 I knew how messed up these lyrics are...but I just heard about the whole vampire theory to this song...I think it's just about a psycho, with some sex and murder thrown in there
Makes it kinda creepy seeing as I used to live near Lake Tyler. Also possum kingdom national park is where my mother was picked up by ambulance and subsequently died because the EMT fucked up. I've driven near there twice and that place seems just cursed to me. Song isn't ruined for me though.
Lewis just made the song up (according to an interview with him). His family used to hang out at the lake in Tyler Texas. Apparently, there was a real stalker in Tyler. Why does everything have to be VAMPIRES or Satan?? lol It's a good tune....great beat.
I have no idea where you got your information from but it's horrendously incorrect. Actually, Tyler is in east Texas and Possum Kingdom Lake (PK or Possum Kingdom to us Texans) is about 90 miles west of Ft. Worth which is nowhere near Tyler. Tyler and PK are about 240 miles apart. The song's origins lie in folklore from the band's native state of Texas. In the documentary "Dark Secrets: The Stories of Rubberneck" (which I own & yes, I did go back thru the documentary to check facts) , Lewis further elaborates that he intended "Possum Kingdom" to be a continuation of the story told in the song "I Burn". While he envisioned "I Burn" to be a story about cult members immolating themselves in order to ascend to a higher plane, "Possum Kingdom" was about one of the immolated people becoming "just smoke, and ...he goes to Possum Kingdom [Lake] and tries to find somebody to join him."
TheOriginalDrakon If you read my comment you will see that I cited my source (just good basic research habits that I have always used in my professional and personal life). Where did you get yours? Hmmm..there's the cult theme again. What exactly do you think is inaccurate about what Lewis said?? He made the song up..get it? It's not intended to be FACTUAL. Actually, he laughs about how people always want to read some deep cult meaning into his songs....he emphasizes that it's just a simple story he made up. There is no hidden or deep meaning to it.
Hika Shika Pfff you cited absolutely nothing. No reference of a magazine, radio station, tv show, podcast, etc. Anybody could say "oh, it was an interview". Gimme a break. I actually gave a source but evidently, you can't read what's right in front of your face. Also, you're clearly pathetic at your "professional career" if that's how you cite a source. You would be the laughingstock of any news agency if you went to the editor-in-chief or the head of a news channel saying "I cited the source" w/o giving a name of that source. Open your eyes and look again. I stated "I went back thru the documentary to check the facts" (there are numerous entries of this doc here on youtube). Lewis gave the statements in the documentary. That is FACTUAL ... I didn't say ANYTHING about the story in the song being factual, nor did I say anything about me doubting what Lewis said in this supposed interview that was NOT cited by ANYTHING. However, I doubt your words heavily b/c you only see what you want. Not what is actually written.
TheOriginalDrakon Your source is Wikipedia (word for word). Wikipedia has a disclaimer that states that the information on its site is "contributed" by anyone who wants to post material. Furthermore, the "story" about this song that you cited states: "Note that the article needs additional citations for verification." That's because no one in their right mind would repeat anything they read on Wiki...it's not reliable. There is no need for you to get personal. You can read into this song anything you want. I really don't give a flip.Lewis thinks it's hilarious the way people like you read things into his songs and make things so damned complicated though. I have to agree. I was relaying information I read from MANY interview with Lewis and the group. Here are just a few: In a 1995 interview with RIP magazine, Toadies lead singer Todd Lewis, who wrote the song, said: "It's just a story I heard long ago; it's just a really cool, eerie lake, and some stuff I heard and some stuff I just make up. I tend to do that. They dammed up this big river up there, and it's got all these spooky names like Hell's Gate. It's really cool." Lewis went on to say that there was a real stalker in Tyler, Texas who became a folk hero: "I was down there for Thanksgiving, and after the family got through talking about who died and who's got cancer and all those things that families talk about, they started talking about this guy who was peeping in windows and started breaking into people's houses. He'd go out of his way to be seen, and everyone is like armed to the teeth, and he's like tapping on windows. The whole family was freaked out about it." Interview with Dan Weiss (Radio.com) What was the creepiest thing you ever saw there? I couldn’t tell you that I saw anything specifically there, it’s just a really cool landscape with all sorts of weird nomenclature there…Hell’s Gate, Devil’s Island and all this weird shit. It just happened to be where I was when I wrote a bunch of songs. I’ve heard more rumors about this song than most hits of the era so would you mind telling me if the following are true or false? Let’s start with false. [laughs] The song is about a vampire. Nope. The song concerns a rape. Nope. Was the song inspired by a real person or real events? No. What else are you comfortable telling me about the song? Oh, I don’t mind. There’s actually a documentary that our guitar player Clark [Voegler]-he’s afilm editor, that’s what he does-he put together a bunch of footage, a bunch of interviews about it. When I write a character-especially back then-I’d write a character in a song and then have that character go through whatever I want them to do. I just made up the story, just wrote the song and had it tell a story. I’ve always liked story songs. What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever heard it’s “about”? Other than this conversation? [laughs] Haha. The biggest one is vampires. It was always the thing with vampires. I don’t know, I’ve heard all kinds of s-. That’s kind of the beauty of that whole record and a lot of songs I’ve written, people grab onto whatever they want to hear. Until that documentary I didn’t want to talk about it. Other people’s interpretations are more f-ed up and detailed than mine are. From a 1995 interview: Umbarger: 'Possum Kingdom' is a ghost story." Lewis: "Possum Kingdom is a lake. One of the ten best fishin' spots in the U.S." Umbarger: "It's not about vampires, even though we have a big underground vampire following in Florida." Lewis: "It's just a story I heard long ago; it's just a really cool, eerie lake, and some stuff I heard and some stuff I just make up. I tend to do that."
As a metal head, we tend to forget that even the softer music like this can be heavy with just a simple beat
Ha ha, same here. Vary good.
Hush u drunk
It’s kinda simple but still a really good song, I love it
This is just good lol. This isnt heavy at all lol. Its like good rock. Idk what you are even listening to. What do you think metal is then lmao
Soft how my guy???! I'm for real amazed like wtf
''I will treat you well, my sweet angel. So help me, Jesus'' That is my favorite part!! I love this song!
65 & this chick is still Rockin'!
One of the greatest songs of the 90's for sure.
One of those songs I re-discover and then listen to hundreds of times over. Amazing and unique.
T. Seaver Photography Same thing here! I first heard it when I was younger playing Guitar Hero 2 years ago. Then 4 days ago my bro was playing it in his car and I fell in love with it all over!
Fuck yeah! Simple and classic. Like the Beatles only darker. Brilliant.
yyz 6eah!
T. Seaver Photography word!
Same tho
I loved this song when I was 16 and still love it to this day. Kids today don't know what they're missing.
I'm 13 and I love older music so much! It's so much better then what we have today with Taylor Swift and Harry Styles, Suicide boys etc. I feel like people back then and bands had so much more talent then today there are songs from today that are good but nothing compares to 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s, even early 00s music! ❤
@@Music_Lover_1970 I know exactly what you mean, I’m also 13 and I love older music
I'm a 51 year old grandmother and I think this one of the coolest songs I've heard in many years.
im 65... love the jam.
Don’t lie, you’re 15 😂
Get the meatloaf
lol thanks for sharing. Young at heart!
I'm -7 months (still in the womb) and I love this song.
90's The best freakin years, the best bands, the best parties...
NIrvana, Collective, STP, Pearl Jam, Soul Asylum.... and the list goes on!!!!
For real!!
I agree
You are so right love to go back and all the concerts again Collective soul 7 Mary 3. Garbage Bush. Live. Stone temple pilots aaaawwww and many more im 60 y o white women and still grunge
This is one of my top 10 favorite songs ever. I have never heard anything like this song and it has such an amazing beat and tone.
I love all these 90's alternatives, they are my life
+Moonster i an 57 years old and i have listend to everything that has been recorded both studio and live and black market bootleg music.The 90's in my own opinion was the best sound of all time.
+T mo I'm 53 and I agree 100%. 70s funk was pretty unique and good but the 90s really rocked.
+Luis Rivera really
+Luis Rivera the 80s rocked, the 90s almost killed the metal. like disco almost killed live rock bands back in the 70s.
Moonster I grew up with it, I still find myself searching out all the 90's alternative hits and grunge. The 90's had great music.
One of my favorite concerts of all time, outside in the rain in Albuquerque. Toadies, Reverend Horton Heat, Butthole Surfers, June 1993
Same year, Jacksonville, FL, Last tour for Duran, Duran with the Cranberries also.
That must have kicked ass!!
Bruhhh. What a lineup!!
My dad would play this a lot when I was a child. I found it again today. :)
My mom always played The Toadies when I was a kid, it was this and "I come from the water" good years the late 90s.
Man I forgot how awesome this song is! And so much fun to sing!
Not exactly if you pay attention to the lyrics.
+Carl H I agree
+iceangelfire64 Tbh, even if you pay attention to the lyrics.
this song is freaking awesome. period.
Great song to do for karoke, especially if you want to go home alone.
Oh c'mon. Just because it's about a sexual predator serial killer ? Minor details.
This song will keep them at bay
@@SirReal1958 Details, smetails.....
@@aprildawnsanford5032 My comment was intended to be sarcastic. The song does have a terrific bass line.
@@SirReal1958 I was kidding too. I like the song a lot actually.
Still here for it in 2020.
@Dench2020 she's still here for it and so are you
Im here as well
Yeah! Any year
A constant on my playlist! No sex in your violence kinda thing!
Dench2020 and you’re delightful.
My dad played this when he took my mom on their first date...she said she was scared as fuck when he turned down a wooded road playing this loudly.
+Alissa Kunzer Yeah. but you're still here, what happened? :-)
+empty well...they ended up fighting so she got out and he drove away but then he turned around a min later and got her again..BAM than I was made xD
+Alissa Kunzer let's burn 'er, she's a vampire!
Alissa Kunzer kidding :P
+Wheatley, o fdp good punk! xD jkjk idk if your a punk or not
I get speeding tickets when this song comes on the radio....
Whats wrong with you?! Do you wanna die??
Lol
haha...yeah
LOL
@@joshporter5205 you win the Internet. Well done, sir.
It's awesome to see a great band make it from local to global. DFW is the place to be.
I still love this song after all these years lol. #2019
My best friend & I use to love this song when it first came out! We were 13 & we would dance & jump on the bed, laughing up a storm!
this song gets me going. glad my first love had good taste in music, bc nobody else I know is familiar with it. I love how music can but you in a different time, even if its temporary. thanks dag.
@Fast Internet no u
This song is BAD ASS period!!!!!!!!!!!
Hell yeah it was! :)
A song I can never get tired of, I love the whole album. Still jam this kind of music, the 1990s had some of the best music come out. In the 1990s when I was a kid I loved the video for this, I watched MTV constantly and it's so sad how it is now cause when this came out MTV rocked I loved it
This song hit me on an emotional level. I didn't think that was possible with this song.
For the longest time, I wrongly thought this was Everclear. That made me search their library for hours trying to find this song to no avail. It was great that one of my work friends finally pointed me in the right direction.
Yeah not even cloze
Hot guitar licks love every minute of that bass in awe
2019 and still going... LONG LIVE 90s ALT-ROCK ✊🤘🤙
I finally learned the name of this song. Time to listen a million times lol
True Love Never Dies!
Dawn M. Day Jack? Jack? I'll never let go. You jump, I jump, right?
This song was badass then, and still badass now. I freaking miss the 90's man!! Great times!!
Me too
Yes
Today's music is crap garbage! Love this song!
I miss the 90's so much... such a GREAT decade for music!
Ok, I am 13 and I must say, this song is among the best I have ever heard. People say young people have no taste in music but me and my grandmother can listen to this together and love it equally
Your grandma rocks ❤
You shouldn’t judge people’s taste in music, if they like pop or rap let them like it.
Really was the last decade of great music. So hard to find good music today.
I'm not gonna lie, I am 50 and I love this song 😂😂😎
I'm 60 and love this song !!!! 😊
Yeah. 49 and loving it still...
65 ^
36 years old. I love it.
Calamity JANE I'm 55 and I love this song!
Saw these guys live in Austin TX a few years ago I’m needing to see them again!!!!
One of many early 90's groups that didn't get the exposure they deserved. "Rubberneck" is one of those albums that doesn't have one bad song in the set.
So beautiful music for me thank you so much for this beautiful music. My favorite part in This music is ( i can promise you i will traet you well my sweet angel so help me jesus 😅😍😍😍
I'm not gonna lie I'm.almost 53 & I love this song too
Thanks for the post, love this song.
I play it every time my GF colors her hair, and I sing... Whatever color and soft skin forever.
Trust me it works :)
I grew up near possum kingdom lake 🤷♀️ never even thought about how disturbing these lyrics are.
paige b OMG theres an actual possum kingdom lake?? Ive been obsessed with this song for probs a decade and never knew the meaning of the title X)
@@bomb1o1 me neither where is this lake. Plus wasnt this song in a scary movie in the 90s
@@theroman886 its in Fort Worth Texas.
@@bomb1o1 Fort Worth Texas... actually just outside of it.. but yeah..
I wanna visit 😈😈
They still tock!! This song was released before internet, I heard this song on radio for weeks, but could never catch the flippin DJ give artist and title.. so I used to ask people "hey you know the song that goes "Do you wanna be my angel, so help me Jesus".. and my singing voice was awful, they laughed at me.. so I said "do you wanna die, do you wanna die?" Seen em thrice, have all their new stuff, thanks for being a part of my musical journey!!
Seen them live at buzzfest a few years back in 9th grade with P.O.D. and Godsmack pretty damn good time man
Sounds awesome!
I saw them in the late 90s with baboon. They were both awesome. Still can't find the toadies song tornado.
Love how this sounds with headphones
I miss '94!!
Never seen the 💡
When in doubt...overreaction is dangerous! Be. I've got all the energy to go round and round
fuck yeah !!!!!!!
The best times ever!
I will treat you well
My sweet Angel ...
💛🔥💛🔥💛🔥💛
Great tune for Halloween.
Jinse Jose finally someone who knows how to spell angel! thank u
Seeing them live in a couple of weeks. I cannot wait. I really hope they play this!
Shit, this one still freaks me out after all these years. Perhaps one of the most disturbing songs of the 1990s.
Whenever i hear this song i think of my friend who sang this to me on AIM (AOL instant messenger).. unfortunately he died a while back of an OD but i always smile and think of him when i hear this song.🖤
PhhS..relate i am.
My dad showed me this song some time last year and this is the first time I've listened to it by myself. Glad to say I got my music taste from my parents.
It's funny how songs can bring back specific memories. I remember being 11 years old & some boy I liked dedicating this song to me lol
Call the cops
imagine back then prolly didnt think to much of it but now as an adult like wtf lol
Glad ur still alive !
you know it's halloween when I listen to this for a month straight
Halloween 2019 now brutha.
Ah yes 94’ tripping in my friends car and listening to this over 200 times in a row . Felt like 2 mins though
This song is creepy as fuck but I love it
+Pas de tes patates "don't be afraid, I didn't mean to scare you"
+Pas de tes patates I have to agree: "Creepy as fuck". I know the band says it's about vampires or something, but the music video and the lyrics.... I'm hearing serial murderer.
+Trevor Williams wtf lol they are not about any of that crap they actually are just a 90's alt/grunge bad and he talks about god in alot of there songs its a mixed message on the matter but there as average as Weezer or nirvana. great band tho.
how is it creep2
how is is creepy
Great tune for Halloween.
I'm *insert age* and I think this song is awesome.
15
18
35
37
16
I accidentally unplugged my headphones. My wife woke up startled by the music. I told her don't be afraid I didn't mean to scare you...
Lmfao
Did you ask Jesus to help you?
😂🤣😅
🤣🤣🤣
Derrick Sanchez 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I haven’t heard this song in forever. Thank you to whoever posted it!
I remember singing this song for guitar hero when I was 5 and I would sing "do you wanna die" so dementedly
@Coy Leigh www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/demented
It is a word. You are wrong. Now leave.
So many late nights, early mornings driving home in the early to mid 90s with this on the radio.
I love the bass in this song
you're not alone. You can't help but love it. It's so old and still amazing. Many haven't heard it before. Genius.
I LOVED THIS SONG WEN IT 1ST WAS ON THE RADIO
& STILL LOVE IT💖
Because you ❤
Yes it was awesome till they stopped rentimg boats for 150a weekend
Ugh the chorus is so awesome. "I will treat you well, My sweet angel.."
They may be a one hit wonder... But WHAT a hit!
Love this song im 53 and fire up the gt and ride to this music....
From the 50's to the 90's music rocked, now not so much.
Id go ahead and pull yhe 80s from thst list with a few exceptions that was some horrible music durring thst time but i think it opened it up for the greatness that was the 90s
John Snow agreed
John Snow some 80’s music was incredible
Some pretty sick and twisted lyrics. But what a song. 🤘
I heard this song on the radio yesterday and it was stuck in my head all day. My fiance got mad at me cuz I kept singing it when we were going to sleep. LOL!
I love this song so much I could listen to it forever
this is speedball alt. energy and chill, a lazy afternoon wide awake.
I remember meeting them in Deep Ellum in Dallas the year before they hit big...smoked a joint after they played a set....good times..
This song makes me think of Twin Peaks/Fire Walk With Me...
I'm 312 years old and not even Beethoven impressed me as much as this song.
Bass at 3:30 is sooooo groovy.
me too! I was 18 when this song came out! makes me feel young!
Song was about a third person murder that happened around '91at PK lake (near Mineral Wells,TX). Dark, yes. Vampire?, no!
GlynWO depends on how u interpret the music
Yup. Thats what it is based on
BobTha Smart1 or how you interpret facts. #douche
It’s like those 90s early 00s songs are forgotten. Miss those times- miss being 17 🙁
Oh yeah, this song hits the spot. Sooo goood...
This isn't the greatest song but it is good enough that it rocks and is the definition of the AWESOME 90'S.
Lol made it here from O&A vids I see.
Love this song ❤️
I saw the Toadies live about 30 years ago. What a great experience.
I saw them at their 25th reunion at the troubadour in LA and I got in trouble for grabbing a pick on stage 😂😂
Até aqui o Nome de Jesus é Glorificado. Glórias.. a Deuxxxx...
Lots of memories with this song. Man I miss those days.
I'm 58 yrs. Old and still think this song rocks.!!!!
Awesome song , perfect lyric video ! Thanks to whoever created this , saved!!
How many know where "Possum Kingdom" is? Anyone from the DFW area should know exactly where it is!!
From Waco. I think there was a church youth group camp there a while back. Real conservative. Then a murder happened at the lake. Creeped everyone out. That's what I heard.
I grew up there
Livin in dallas when they first came out caught one of their shows it awesome💖
I worked a summer for BSA at Camp Constantin
I worked with the uncle of the girl that's the subject of this song. Nice guy, tragic story.
Had a lake house at possum kingdom when this song came out. I was in my mid teens, going with my friends to see their show was great. Can’t believe it’s been so long. Such a rush of emotions when listening to this again. I remember the girl I was dating and the one I snuck out to be with.
The lake is in Graham/Graford, not Tyler. I lived in a lake house on Possum Kingdom for 3 yrs. Beautiful lake. Toadies usually play there on July 4.
So Possum Kingdom is a place?
who cares
Always be my vampire love song... and some other personal bittersweet , heavy hearted near death life experiences. Its beautiful and timeless 🍷⚡💉🏨🤯🤯
When you come back to this song after years and realize how messed up the lyrics are. :D
Happens with alot of songs, and it makes them so much better!
lol at 12 I knew how messed up these lyrics are...but I just heard about the whole vampire theory to this song...I think it's just about a psycho, with some sex and murder thrown in there
It based on a murder in texas
Right...,☝️ Love the song ..but yes twisted indeed .🤦
The lyrics are perfect
How do you top the 80s-90s? Just not possible, it was pure coincidencial Magic!
atleast he's being honest give it up chic
man i love this song. i cant stop playing it.
Makes it kinda creepy seeing as I used to live near Lake Tyler. Also possum kingdom national park is where my mother was picked up by ambulance and subsequently died because the EMT fucked up. I've driven near there twice and that place seems just cursed to me. Song isn't ruined for me though.
I'M so sorry about your mom .
Sinful. Just lovely.
Lewis just made the song up (according to an interview with him). His family used to hang out at the lake in Tyler Texas. Apparently, there was a real stalker in Tyler. Why does everything have to be VAMPIRES or Satan?? lol
It's a good tune....great beat.
I have no idea where you got your information from but it's horrendously incorrect. Actually, Tyler is in east Texas and Possum Kingdom Lake (PK or Possum Kingdom to us Texans) is about 90 miles west of Ft. Worth which is nowhere near Tyler. Tyler and PK are about 240 miles apart. The song's origins lie in folklore from the band's native state of Texas. In the documentary "Dark Secrets: The Stories of Rubberneck" (which I own & yes, I did go back thru the documentary to check facts) , Lewis further elaborates that he intended "Possum Kingdom" to be a continuation of the story told in the song "I Burn". While he envisioned "I Burn" to be a story about cult members immolating themselves in order to ascend to a higher plane, "Possum Kingdom" was about one of the immolated people becoming "just smoke, and ...he goes to Possum Kingdom [Lake] and tries to find somebody to join him."
TheOriginalDrakon If you read my comment you will see that I cited my source (just good basic research habits that I have always used in my professional and personal life). Where did you get yours? Hmmm..there's the cult theme again.
What exactly do you think is inaccurate about what Lewis said?? He made the song up..get it? It's not intended to be FACTUAL. Actually, he laughs about how people always want to read some deep cult meaning into his songs....he emphasizes that it's just a simple story he made up. There is no hidden or deep meaning to it.
Hika Shika Pfff you cited absolutely nothing. No reference of a magazine, radio station, tv show, podcast, etc. Anybody could say "oh, it was an interview". Gimme a break. I actually gave a source but evidently, you can't read what's right in front of your face. Also, you're clearly pathetic at your "professional career" if that's how you cite a source. You would be the laughingstock of any news agency if you went to the editor-in-chief or the head of a news channel saying "I cited the source" w/o giving a name of that source. Open your eyes and look again. I stated "I went back thru the documentary to check the facts" (there are numerous entries of this doc here on youtube). Lewis gave the statements in the documentary. That is FACTUAL ... I didn't say ANYTHING about the story in the song being factual, nor did I say anything about me doubting what Lewis said in this supposed interview that was NOT cited by ANYTHING. However, I doubt your words heavily b/c you only see what you want. Not what is actually written.
TheOriginalDrakon
Your source is Wikipedia (word for word). Wikipedia has a disclaimer that states that the information on its site is "contributed" by anyone who wants to post material. Furthermore, the "story" about this song that you cited states: "Note that the article needs additional citations for verification." That's because no one in their right mind would repeat anything they read on Wiki...it's not reliable.
There is no need for you to get personal. You can read into this song anything you want. I really don't give a flip.Lewis thinks it's hilarious the way people like you read things into his songs and make things so damned complicated though. I have to agree.
I was relaying information I read from MANY interview with Lewis and the group. Here are just a few:
In a 1995 interview with RIP magazine, Toadies lead singer Todd Lewis, who wrote the song, said: "It's just a story I heard long ago; it's just a really cool, eerie lake, and some stuff I heard and some stuff I just make up. I tend to do that. They dammed up this big river up there, and it's got all these spooky names like Hell's Gate. It's really cool."
Lewis went on to say that there was a real stalker in Tyler, Texas who became a folk hero: "I was down there for Thanksgiving, and after the family got through talking about who died and who's got cancer and all those things that families talk about, they started talking about this guy who was peeping in windows and started breaking into people's houses. He'd go out of his way to be seen, and everyone is like armed to the teeth, and he's like tapping on windows. The whole family was freaked out about it."
Interview with Dan Weiss (Radio.com)
What was the creepiest thing you ever saw there?
I couldn’t tell you that I saw anything specifically there, it’s just a really cool landscape with all sorts of weird nomenclature there…Hell’s Gate, Devil’s Island and all this weird shit. It just happened to be where I was when I wrote a bunch of songs.
I’ve heard more rumors about this song than most hits of the era so would you mind telling me if the following are true or false?
Let’s start with false. [laughs]
The song is about a vampire.
Nope.
The song concerns a rape.
Nope.
Was the song inspired by a real person or real events?
No.
What else are you comfortable telling me about the song?
Oh, I don’t mind. There’s actually a documentary that our guitar player Clark [Voegler]-he’s afilm editor, that’s what he does-he put together a bunch of footage, a bunch of interviews about it. When I write a character-especially back then-I’d write a character in a song and then have that character go through whatever I want them to do. I just made up the story, just wrote the song and had it tell a story. I’ve always liked story songs.
What’s the craziest thing you’ve ever heard it’s “about”?
Other than this conversation? [laughs]
Haha.
The biggest one is vampires. It was always the thing with vampires. I don’t know, I’ve heard all kinds of s-. That’s kind of the beauty of that whole record and a lot of songs I’ve written, people grab onto whatever they want to hear. Until that documentary I didn’t want to talk about it. Other people’s interpretations are more f-ed up and detailed than mine are.
From a 1995 interview:
Umbarger: 'Possum Kingdom' is a ghost story."
Lewis: "Possum Kingdom is a lake. One of the ten best fishin' spots in the U.S."
Umbarger: "It's not about vampires, even though we have a big underground vampire following in Florida."
Lewis: "It's just a story I heard long ago;
it's just a really cool, eerie lake, and some stuff I heard and some stuff I
just make up. I tend to do that."
***** that's correct
This song is seriously so beautiful
Me: where do you wanna eat?
My girl: hmmmmmm
Me:make up youuuuur minnnnd
Oh shit
Give a suggestion, don't be a douche Joe Schmoe
How was never a song on Dexter? Also, I freaking love this song! 🎶👍