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Power Underneath Despair Lyrics

You boys are surprised to see me
Never thought I’d get out of jail
Took eight long years to spring me
And two hours to ride the rail

Took only thirty minutes to find you
Asking every snake slithering the street
“Where’s the man with the golden tattoo?
The man who let me take the heat?”

You’re surprised in your neon lair
By the power underneath despair

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Power underneath There’s a power
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In solitary for two steel years
Thought of you sixty times an hour
Fighting madness and fighting despair
Digging the hidden power

Thought about you in the yard
When your punk slipped me the blade
Thought about you in the hospital ward
When I gave it back to him in trade

And my smile is the last sight you’ll see
As you feel the power from inside of me

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Power underneath despair

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Cover art for Power Underneath Despair lyrics by Blue Öyster Cult

It most surely tells the story of the protagonist seeking his revenge for being made to take a fall by \'the man with the golden tattoo\'. And successfully taking said revenge. \nAnd through this story, it talks of a deeper philosophical truth: That what is suppressed or sublimated grows in strength, as it is fixated on overcoming what holds it back, using what makes you mad to drive you with its raw energy and power.\n Or, rather, when you feel everything you cared about has been taken away from you, and you have nothing else to live for, then you become a true danger and threat. That at your lowest point is where you will find the power to rise, like the tale of the phoenix...out of the ashes.

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Cover art for Power Underneath Despair lyrics by Blue Öyster Cult

A story of a guy betrayed into jail by some gangsters, and his revenge.

Cover art for Power Underneath Despair lyrics by Blue Öyster Cult

What you gonna do when you get out of jail? I'm gonna have some fun What do you consider fun?

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