This is more or less what John says during his intro to Outside in the Underground from his show at Eddies Attic in Atlanta on 6-15-99. It's not quite exact, cause I can't type fast enough, but it's really close.
"So I'm flying up to boston in July which is great, I have quite a kinship with that city. I wrote most of these songs, well about half of them, up in boston. This song is, uh, If you have the five song demo, this song is called 'Outside in the Underground'. I hardly ever play it, but I'm starting to feel like it means something more; it's not a pop hit, but sometimes, when you go out in the rain, most of the time, we run, because you don't want to get hit by the rain, but other times you walk through the rain, and you just walk. You don't react to the rain, you let it happen, you don't back down. I think I wrote this song after i filled out my withdrawl form at berkley. And I had the idea for this song, it's raining, it's laid out in the city, and you have to walk a couple blocks to get around, and I didn't feel running, like opening up the umbrella or putting up the hood, and I just looked up and accepted it. This songs called 'Outside in the Underground'."
It always helps to see the artists explanation of a song.
This is more or less what John says during his intro to Outside in the Underground from his show at Eddies Attic in Atlanta on 6-15-99. It's not quite exact, cause I can't type fast enough, but it's really close.
"So I'm flying up to boston in July which is great, I have quite a kinship with that city. I wrote most of these songs, well about half of them, up in boston. This song is, uh, If you have the five song demo, this song is called 'Outside in the Underground'. I hardly ever play it, but I'm starting to feel like it means something more; it's not a pop hit, but sometimes, when you go out in the rain, most of the time, we run, because you don't want to get hit by the rain, but other times you walk through the rain, and you just walk. You don't react to the rain, you let it happen, you don't back down. I think I wrote this song after i filled out my withdrawl form at berkley. And I had the idea for this song, it's raining, it's laid out in the city, and you have to walk a couple blocks to get around, and I didn't feel running, like opening up the umbrella or putting up the hood, and I just looked up and accepted it. This songs called 'Outside in the Underground'."
It always helps to see the artists explanation of a song.