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Poison the Well – Exist Underground Lyrics 15 years ago
I honestly do not this this is a Political song. Its Classic Poison the well, self reflective, and rather deconstructive analysis of the singers persona.

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Portugal. The Man – Waiter Lyrics 17 years ago
I believe this song was influenced by Edgar Allen Poes' "The lake to..." references such as "Spines of furrowed earth jut jagged as they rise".


In spring of youth it was my lot
To haunt of the wide world a spot
The which I could not love the less-
So lovely was the loneliness
Of a wild lake, with black rock bound,
And the tall pines that towered around.

But when the Night had thrown her pall
Upon that spot, as upon all,
And the mystic wind went by
Murmuring in melody-
Then–ah then I would awake
To the terror of the lone lake.

Yet that terror was not fright,
But a tremulous delight-
A feeling not the jewelled mine
Could teach or bribe me to define-
Nor Love–although the Love were thine.

Death was in that poisonous wave,
And in its gulf a fitting grave
For him who thence could solace bring
To his lone imagining-
Whose solitary soul could make
An Eden of that dim lake.

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