“Possum Kingdom (KXT Live Session)” by Vaden Todd Lewis

"Possum Kingdom" goes back to 1994 and Rubberneck, the first Toadies album, where Vaden Todd Lewis sang it and it became the record's second single; in this KXT live session he takes it on under his own name. The song grew out of Texas folklore and takes its name from Possum Kingdom Lake, out in North Texas near Fort Worth, and for most of its length it lurches back and forth between two time signatures.

Lewis has explained the dark story underneath. In the documentary "Dark Secrets: The Stories of Rubberneck", he said he meant it as a sequel to "I Burn", his tale of cult members setting themselves on fire to reach a higher plane: here one of them, reduced to smoke, drifts out to the lake looking for someone to join him.

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