Title: Blue Light Lounge Sutra For The Performance Poets At Harold Park Hotelthe need gotta beso deep words can'tanswer simple questionsall night long notesstumble off the tongue& color the air indigoso deep fragments of gut& flesh cling to the songyou gotta get into itso deep salt crystalizes on eyelashesthe need gotta beso deep you can vomit up ghosts& not feel brokentill you are no morethan a half ounce of goldin painful brightnessyou gotta get into itblow that saxophoneso deep all the sex & dope in this worldcan't erase your needto howl against the skythe need gotta beso deep you can'tjust wiggle your hips& rise up out of itchaos in the cosmosmodern man in the pepperpotyou gotta get hookedinto every hungry grooveso deep the bomb lockedin rust opens like a fistinto it into it so deeprhythm is pre-memorythe need gotta be basicanimal need to see& know the terrorwe are made of honeycause if you wanna dancethis boogie be readyto let the devil use your headfor a drum . Yusef Komunyakaa
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In the song “Blue Light Lounge Sutra For The Performance Poets At Harold Park Hotel”, Tame Impala sings about a need to be so deep. In order to be great at something, you have to go beyond the superficial and dive into the depths of your soul. The song is talking about how we can’t become great just by looking pretty and dancing around. We have to dig deep and get off our butts. It’s not always easy and we can get frustrated sometimes, but we should never back away from exploring who we are because we will never know who we could become.

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