Use Tikz to draw underlines

Question

The following MWE contains the definition of a custom macro for colored underlines with the ulem package.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{ulem}


\newcommand{\muline}{\bgroup\markoverwith
{\textcolor{red}{\rule[-0.5ex]{2pt}{0.4pt}}}\ULon}

\begin{document}
\muline{This is some very very very very long text that does not fit in a single line but needs two.}
\end{document}

Is it possible to use TikZ to draw the underline?

What I have in mind is the possibility to use something like \draw(start)--(end); instead of the rule command.

Of course it is required that the underline works for multi-line texts as the ulem underline does.

Underlines are ugly. But related Cool Text Highlighting in LaTeX and List of Underlining Packages - Pros and Cons — percusse, Sep 24 '14 at 19:47
Is this just a tikz exercise or is there another motivator as to why ulem or other approaches are inadequate? — Steven B. Segletes, Sep 24 '14 at 19:48
@StevenB.Segletes Because I need the powerful decoration system of TikZ to customize the underlines and create various effects. The specific use case is to produce slides for children, by the way. — Jansen, Sep 24 '14 at 19:51
@Jansen: Oppss, it seems that I have become more powerful than I was aware of. I did not know that my vote to close would close this question. If you want it reopened, please let me know and I will try to figure out how to do that. — Peter Grill, Sep 24 '14 at 19:57
@PeterGrill I managed to adapt those solutions to my needs, so this can be closed. Thanks. — Jansen, Sep 24 '14 at 20:02
@PeterGrill: From a couple of months or so, casting a close vote in a question in which you have a gold badge in one of the tags, it closes the question immediately. — Claudio Fiandrino, Sep 25 '14 at 06:00

Use Tikz to draw underlines

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