The Gaslight Anthem Songs - Underneath The Ground Lyrics

The Gaslight Anthem - Underneath The Ground

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Album: Get Hurt
Released: 2014

Underneath The Ground Lyrics

That's enough, my man, it's time to clap our hands.
Call the papers up tomorrow, say we did the best we can.
'Cause our doctor's in the hospital, the poet just laid down.
There's one good man I know, and he can't talk right now.

I'd like to hear what you'd say to me if I was bulletproof and free again.
Or what you'd shout if I was dead in the ground, and buried under another name?

Or would you talk about if I loved her now?
Tell my sins to God out loud.
Would you cry, cry 'cause I was gone?
Would you spit and hiss and curse my name,
And embarrass me to the other graves?
Would you lay right down with me, Underneath The Ground?

Now who you think I am?
Worse than all the rest?
That's what I'll be now, just like no one said.
Did anybody see that, there's a crack right down my head.
But mama, how they'll cheer for us, while the blood drips down our legs.

I'd like to know if you could see through the soul
Like I could see to your soul back then.
And reach your hands through all the hurt and defenses,
Would you still try if you knew I was gone?

Or would you talk about if I loved her now?
Tell my sins to God out loud.
Would you cry, cry 'cause I was gone?
Would you spit and hiss and curse my name,
And embarrass me to the other graves?
Would you lay right down with me, underneath the ground?
Underneath the ground?

(I wanna caution you to watch out for the wolves.
And for the mad, mad weather.
I wanna caution you to watch out for the wolves.
And for someday, when you're older)

Or would you talk about if I loved her now?
Tell my sins to God out loud.
Would you cry, cry 'cause I was gone?
Would you spit and hiss and curse my name,
And embarrass me to the other graves?
Would you lay right down with me, underneath the ground?
Underneath the ground?

I wanna thank you all for your courtesy.
I wanna thank you all for watching us bleed.
I wanna thank you all for your courtesy.
I wanna thank you all for watching us bleed.
Underneath the ground.

Writer/s: FALLON, BRIAN
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
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Brian Fallon sings here about death. Radio.com asked the Gaslight Anthem frontman if the song's sound and subject matter came together naturally? He replied: "Yeah, I think certain songs like that - they almost tell you what they sound like before you finish it."

"That one started just on the piano, by itself.," Fallon continued. "It was just that little riff at the beginning."

Fallon explained the inspiration for the track: "I was watching this movie where a guy was dead but he could hear people talking about him," he recalled. "And I was like, 'Oh, that sucks! Uch. What would people say? He was such a good guy, but not really?'"

"I think that impacts people heavily," Fallon continued. "You could be really angry at someone their whole life but then they drop dead suddenly, and you're like, time for some second thoughts there."