Underground (studio cover)

UNDERGROUND (Behind the song)

This song was written in  St Petersburg, Florida after doing a small gig for students of our voice instructor. In was in a building that reminded one of an old train station. It reminded me of the time when one feels like leaving after being in a negative situation where ones value was invisible. Where it felt like one was underground all the time with no recognition as having any value. It is the same as faced by this Biblical writer at Zechariah 13:6 , “ And if someone asks him, ‘What are these wounds between your shoulders?’ he will answer, ‘Wounds I received in the house of my friends.’” It was predicted 2000 years ago that disloyalty would be common with these words at Matthew 10:21, “Further, brother will hand brother over to death, and a father his child, and children will rise up against parents and will have them put to death.”  These conditions would exist in our time and have nothing to do with ones value as a person. The truth is we all have value, so it is best to get away from negative circumstance that keep you in an underground state.  The song Underground is about getting away to more positive pastures where the wind is blowing  hard but now far behind you as something you went through, a distant memory.  Proverbs 18:24 tells of the new positive environment, “There are companions ready to crush one another, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.” Negativity is best to get out of ones life so take the train and leave the Underground. These are the musings behind the song ,’ Underground’.

LYRICS

UNDERGROUND

By:ELTON HENDRIX
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D
1.STANDING HERE IN THIS

BIG OLD STATION
2. I HEAR VOICES WITH NAMES AND TRAINS THEIR CALLING

G

1. GOT MY TICKET, GOT MY RESERVATION
2. PEOPLE BUNNING IN EVERT BIRECTION
Em
1. BUT I DON T KNOW WHERE I M GOING
2. VET I DON T KNOW WHY I M RUNNING
1. JUST GOTTA GET AWAY FROM HERE
2. JUST GOTTA GET/OUT OF MERE
Em
BRIDGE

AND I DON T IONIOW HOW I CAN FEEL SO ALONE
WITH SO MANY PEOPLE RUNNING AROUND
Em

A
BUT I VE BEEN ALONE BEFORE, IN THIS TOWN AND FELL UNDERGROUND
SO I M SITTING HERE IN THIS RAILWAY STATION
FEELING IVE LOST A WHOLE GENERATION
Em
JUST TRYING, TRYING TO BE FOUND
BUT BEING LEFT UNDERGROUND
( GUITAR LEAD-LAST 3 LINES)
BRIDGE

AND I DON T KNOW WHY I FEEL SO ALONE

G

WITH THIS WHOLE WORLD SPINNING AROUND
Em Mturfs
I VE BEEN ALONE BEFORE, IN THIS TOWN, AND FELT SO UNDERGROUND

1,1

A
( GUITAR INTENSE STRUM — D-G WITH TRAIN SOUND Em7 — Am-b3)
1.I HEAR THE CLATTER OF THE TRAIN COMING DOWN THE TRACK
1.THATS THE TRAIN

1. THATS GONNA TAKE ME BACK
2. RIDING THIS BIG LONG FREEDOM TRACK
2.WITH THE WIND BLOWING HARD BEHIND MY BACK
1. TO WHERE I DON T KNOW WHERE, I DON T CARE
G

2. NOW I KNOW WHERE I M BOUND
1. JUST GET ME AWAY FROM THIS UNDERGROUND, THIS PUTING DOWN
2. BOUND TO LEAVE THIS / UNDERGROUND
LEAVING THIS UNDERGROUND
S O I;M LEAVING THIS UNDERGROUND