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Stevie Wonder Higher Ground 1973 With Lyrics
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Higher Ground • From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia • Higher Ground is a funk song written by Stevie Wonder which first appeared on his 1973 album Innervisions. The song reached number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 on the US Hot R B Singles chart.[3] Wonder wrote and recorded the song in a three-hour burst of creativity in May 1973.[4] The album version of the song contains an extra verse and runs 30 seconds longer than the single version. The unique wah-clavinet sound in the song was achieved with a Mu-Tron III envelope filter pedal. The bass line is provided by a Moog synthesizer and using overdubs, Wonder played all instruments on the track, including drums and percussion. • The song was also released in the UK but achieved only modest success, reaching number 29 in the UK Singles Chart. • Subject • The song lyrics address the issue of reincarnation. Wonder commented, when interviewed by The New York Times: • I would like to believe in reincarnation. I would like to believe that there is another life. I think that sometimes your consciousness can happen on this earth a second time around. For me, I wrote Higher Ground even before the accident. But something must have been telling me that something was going to happen to make me aware of a lot of things and to get myself together. This is like my second chance for life, to do something or to do more, and to value the fact that I am alive. • Critical reception[edit] • In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the song #265 on their list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, adding: 'Ground' was recorded just before Wonder was involved in a near-fatal accident in August '73 that left him in a coma. Early in Wonder's recovery, his road manager sang the song's melody into the singer's ear; Wonder responded by moving his fingers with the music.
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