Possum Kingdom (song)
1994 single by Toadies / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Possum Kingdom" is a song by American alternative rock band Toadies released as the second single from their 1994 album, Rubberneck.
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"Possum Kingdom" | ||||
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Single by Toadies | ||||
from the album Rubberneck | ||||
Released | 1994 | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 5:08 | |||
Label | Interscope | |||
Songwriter(s) | Todd Lewis | |||
Producer(s) | Tom Rothrock, Rob Schnapf | |||
Toadies singles chronology | ||||
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Music video | ||||
"Possum Kingdom" on YouTube | ||||
The song's origins lie in folklore from the band's native state of Texas. Possum Kingdom Lake is a lake in North Texas near Fort Worth. In the documentary "Dark Secrets: The Stories of Rubberneck", vocalist Vaden Todd 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."[6]
Most of the song alternates between a 7
4 and a 4
4 time signature.