Lyric discussion by mrsiegal 

Agree with wolfticket. Waits at this point moved away from his manager Bones Howe and started a personal and working relationship with his wife Kathleen Brennan. To me underground is about musical transition. From this point on we hear a more experimental Waits with more avant garde influences such as beefheart. I love this track and I think a transition musically is the meaning behind this.

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