The Great Lake is a natural lake and man-made reservoir that is located in the central northern region of Tasmania, Australia.
Fed by the Pine Rivulet and Breton Rivulet, the original natural freshwater lake, much smaller in size than its current 176-square-kilometre (68 sq mi) surface area, was expanded as a result of the 1967 construction of the Miena Rockfill Dam at its southern outflow into the Shannon River. After Lake Pedder, the Great Lake is the state's second largest freshwater lake.
At 1,030 metres (3,380 ft) above sea level, the lake's uses include hydro-electric power, fishing, and tourism. Water from the lake flows into Poatina Power Station to generate hydro-electric power.
The nearby towns of Liaweenee and Miena are popular holiday shack destinations for local tourists, despite the area's reputation as being one of the coldest places in the generally mild-weathered state. During the winter months, when the weather is hardly conducive to camping, the population of these two small towns drops to two or three hundred. Parts of the lake surface have frozen during July in some years.
The Great Lakes (also called the Laurentian Great Lakes, or the Great Lakes of North America) are a series of interconnected freshwater lakes located in northeastern North America, on the Canada–United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River. Consisting of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron (or Michigan–Huron), Erie, and Ontario, they form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth, containing 21% of the world's surface fresh water by volume. The total surface is 94,250 square miles (244,106 km2), and the total volume (measured at the low water datum) is 5,439 cubic miles (22,671 km3). Due to their sea-like characteristics (rolling waves, sustained winds, strong currents, great depths, and distant horizons) the five Great Lakes have also long been referred to as inland seas. Lake Superior is the second largest lake in the world by area, and Lake Michigan is the largest lake that is entirely within one country. The southern half of the Great Lakes is surrounded by the Great Lakes Megalopolis.
Teri comes in laughing
Shakes her coat off
And I just can't bear to look
Anymore I hear somebody laughing
I just figure, I've been took
She stands right behind me
With one hand on my back
My eyes are closed
At first I think she speaks to me
But when I hear him say, “Hi”
I say, “oh”
Oh, oh, oh
Here come the angels talking sweet to me
Just like the thought that I was dumb
Like I don't hear the talk from town
Like I don't know what's ‘bout to come
Everybody knows they left Paul without his clothes
Behind the barn in tears
Now we can't get him off that God damned horse
He's been there for years
Years, years, years
It's ten o'clock the tv's on my bed
The news is on, it's never good
I'm up, I'm up, I'm getting up, I will
I know I really should
This lake is too big for me Jesus
Don't hold me to anything I do
If I surrender now and let it swallow me
Don't think they won't blame you
You, you, you, you
Don't think they won't blame you