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middlekid9

Reddit, I need help finding some related songs for my Forensics piece! More inside.

 So I do forensics at my high school, and this year I'm expanding the events I do, and one event I need to prepare for is Poetry.  The event has a seven minute maximum time limit, but it is preferred to have your recital go between five and seven minutes.  You are allowed to recite up to three poems as long as they are related, which brings me to my dilemma.

 The first song I will recite is "Here Come The Flood," by Peter Gabriel.  My brother first introduced me into Peter Gabriel, and we both view him as one of the greatest musicians of all time.  This song is absolutely one of my favorite pieces of music of all time, and getting to perform this as part of a competition would be lovely.  It was inspired by a dream Gabriel had, and by radio waves he kept hearing that got louder as night went on.  It is mainly about people being able to read each other's minds, and the resulting flood of information and the losing of humanity and one's mind.  The live versions of the song are way closer to Gabriel's original vision (producer Bob Ezrin kind of changed how he thought the song should be recorded).  It is a calm, sad song that I can never get enough of.

 The challenge now is to find songs that have the same mood and sort of message or theme.  I now turn to you, Reddit, please help me find more songs like Here Comes The Flood!

 **tl;dr Help me find songs that sound like and have about the same message as Peter Gabriel's "Here Comes The Flood" for me to use in poetry competitions in my high school Forensics.** 

Posted Dec 2, 2012, 7:58 PM UTC

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