New Song: Hell Below
Standing over a supervolcano in tennis shoes — and what Yellowstone's fragile ground has to say about the courage it takes just to live.
Added another song from the Yellowstone collection: Hell Below.
There’s something Yellowstone does to you that other beautiful places don’t. The beauty is real — the painted valleys, the pine forests growing back through old burn scars, the elk at the tree line — but underneath it all is a supervolcano. One of the largest on earth. And thousands of people walk those boardwalks over it every single day in flip-flops, laughing, eating ice cream.
That gap between what the ground looks like and what it actually is never stops being strange to me.
It became a metaphor I couldn’t shake. Life works the same way. We go about our days — building things, loving people, making plans — while real danger hums along quietly beneath the surface. It doesn’t announce itself. You don’t see it until the steam breaks through.
And yet we keep walking. Not because we don’t know better. Because what else would you do?
That’s the question the song sits with. The answer it lands on is simple enough: respect the ground, believe in something worth going toward, take care of the people beside you, and keep moving.
Yellowstone Vol 1, right alongside Wolves Came Home.