Outmusic Awards 2002

Outstanding New Recording

Female

The Underdogs

Jen Foster

Outstanding

Producer

Jeff Trott

The Underdogs

THE UNDERDOGS

words by jen foster & kathy scott

Second grade, Billy Simms
Playing out by the jungle gym
All the boys
laughed at him
For some sort of speech impediment
And they knocked
him down
And I pushed them off
And they kicked our asses
'Cause we were
the underdogs

Seventh grade, Cindy Sloan
Eating in the lunchroom all
alone
They called her strange, but I could see
She was just different like me
So I asked her over
And she blew me off
It made perfect sense to me
'
Cause we were the underdogs

When everyone's above you,
there's
nowhere you can go
When nobody calls you,
'cause it's all in who you know
When
the self-righteous say they're for you,
telling you to win this fight
Nobody understands you,
no they don't know what it's like

Freshman year, Judson Tate
He didn't have a Homecoming date
He asked me out, we never kissed
We told each other our big secret
He said he fell for James
And James
broke his heart
And I understood him
'Cause we were the underdogs

When everyone's above you,
there's nowhere you can go
When nobody calls you,
'
cause it's all in who you know
When the self-righteous say they're for
you,
telling you to win this fight
Nobody understands you,
no they
don't know what it's like

Senior year, Billy Simms
His parents said it was
an accident...

OUTSONG

Performed by

Jen Foster

Music
Jen Foster

Lyrics
Jen Foster & Kathy Scott