brettocks222 (August 30, 2008 at 4:20 am)

You sound extremely intelligent.

laford1986 (August 30, 2008 at 1:48 am)

this is truly one of the coolest rock songs of all time...

jasutinsan (August 29, 2008 at 7:44 pm)

what the hell, i heard this song on the radio and could have sworn it was OLP, they sound exactly the same!!! thats f'ed up!!

thegrammarfairy (August 28, 2008 at 6:15 pm)

I love this lyric. It captures the speaker's delusional quality (he will preserve her beauty forever, whether this is in his memory, through the immortality of vampires, or because she will die rather than grow old), his desperate sincerity (swearing on Jesus), and the energy escaping from his restraint here and there (4:24). I compare it with Radiohead's "Creep," the Flys' "Got You Where I Want You," and the cellar scene from Schindler's List with Ralph Fiennes and the maid. Great art.TGF

thegrammarfairy (August 28, 2008 at 6:05 pm)

True art stands up to people's varying interpretations, as ryangfilm said. The situation in the song could be a sexual homicide; it could be a vampire; it could be merely a bad case of young male hormones mixed with teen angst. The title [though I know the main reference is to the lake] even brings to mind 'playing possum,' which in my grandpa's parlance meant pretending to be asleep; death and sleep have been compared a million times, from Hamlet to Snow White.TGF

BlakDjak (August 28, 2008 at 4:57 pm)

Yeah, I can see what you mean.

baller3484 (August 28, 2008 at 5:07 am)

Couldn't have said it better

Zombien20 (August 28, 2008 at 1:50 am)

They don't sound like country. They have a twang because the lead singer is from texas and has the accent. The sound you're searching for is blues. ...or maybe I'm wrong. Hell it could sound like country but I've always thought they were more bluesy...not like I have anything against country...

BlakDjak (August 27, 2008 at 10:03 pm)

Thank you...

madamesergent (August 27, 2008 at 1:14 pm)

my favorite song ever!!!