Gary Schutt - drastic-measures-lyrics

DRASTIC MEASURES lyrics and more

ZOMBIE DRIVE

A long nights and longer days
Out here on the road
With stars in my eyes and wind on my side
And a gas tank full of hope

Asleep at the wheel
Asleep at the wheel
It’s time for my zombie drive
Asleep at the wheel
Asleep at the wheel
It’s time for my zombie drive

A new life in chapter three
Beginning all alone
No turning back
The car is packed
I’m days aways from home

Asleep at the wheel
Asleep at the wheel
It’s time for my zombie drive
Asleep at the wheel
Asleep at the wheel
It’s time for my zombie drive

The road is clear and free from interest
My only companion the moon
I can see into infinity
The radio and my favorite tunes

The road goes on and on and on
Feels like it will never end
Half the way to L.A.
I-10 bearing west

Asleep at the wheel
Asleep at the wheel
It’s time for my zombie drive
Asleep at the wheel
Asleep at the wheel
It’s time for my zombie drive

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ANYONE BUT ME

My inspiration I will give to you
Desperation I will keep from you
My fascination I will share with you
My complication I shall endure you

Do you wanna be somebody
Yes I wanna be somebody
Do you wanna be somebody
Yes I wanna be somebody
Do you wanna be somebody
Yes I wanna be somebody
Who do you wanna be
Anyone but me

My situation draws the fine line
Temptation is a mountain to climb
Exclamation time to be discreet
Frustration think before you speak

Do you wanna be somebody
Yes I wanna be somebody
Do you wanna be somebody
Yes I wanna be somebody
Do you wanna be somebody
Yes I wanna be somebody
Who do you wanna be
Anyone but me

Nobody
Wants to be a nobody
Wants to be a nobody
Wants to be a nobody

Destination can you take me there
Misinformation ask me if you dare
Animation moving frame by frame
Confrontation look what I became

Do you wanna be somebody
Yes I wanna be somebody
Do you wanna be somebody
Yes I wanna be somebody
Do you wanna be somebody
Yes I wanna be somebody
Who do you wanna be
Anyone but me

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HIDE IN PLAIN SIGHT

Contact
It’s easy as what they say
To steal your energy
When time’s up I will guide your way
Get up
Get down and move along
It’s just a passing phase
So don’t stay
It will be OK

Don’t tell me who’s wrong or who’s right
You can’t bring a knife to a gunfight
Someday it will be alright
Get up
Hide in plain sight

Turn around there’s nothing after you
It’s all in your head
Move forward
Be quick or be dead
Once in a lifetime I’m gonna come your way
Don’t close your eyes
Maybe tomorrow,
Maybe on Saturday

Been a long time coming
Better be cunning
I’m gonna get in your way
I’m in your personal space
Gotta have faith
These are your last days

Doesn’t matter who’s wrong or who’s right
You can’t bring a knife to a gunfight
Someday it will be alright
So get up
Hide in plain sight

All alone I hide in close proximity
On ordinary days
I follow you
There’s nothing that you can do
Just when you think everyone’s ignoring you
It’s time to let go
Just follow me
I’m looking out for you
Here in Limbo

Been a long time coming
Better be cunning
I’m gonna get in your way
I’m in your personal space
Gotta have faith
These are your last days

Doesn’t matter who’s wrong or who’s right
You can’t bring a knife to a gunfight
Someday it will be alright
So get up
Hide in plain sight

I am here for all eternity
It’s unavoidable
Your demise is my expertise
Contact
It’s easy as what they say
To steal your energy
So don’t stay, it will be OK

It’s been a long time coming
Better be cunning
I’m gonna get in your way
I’m in your personal space
Up in your face
You can’t barter with fate

It doesn’t matter what’s black or what’s white
I see it all at first light
No need to be uptight
So get up
Doesn’t matter who’s wrong or who’s right
You can’t bring a knife to a gunfight
I know it will be alright
Get up
Hide in plain sight
Hide in plain sight

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DREAMCATCHER

Another nightmare comes
There’s nothing you can do
When shadows crawl it’s starting to feel like home now
It’s just like home now

Although it sometimes feels like virtual reality
You cannot deal
You’re starting to feel alone now
You’re not alone now

Dreamcatcher
I will stop your fall into madness
Don’t you fret at all
You know the nighttime slumber on an Indian Summer
The Devil makes his way
Inside you head
Inside you bed
It never goes away
Yeah

Sometime the nighttime talks
It’s so subliminal
When you walk it’s all astrophysical now
It just makes no sense now

You’re on an astral plane it’s hard to differentiate
The real from fake
You’re far away from home now
So far away from home now

Dreamcatcher
I will stop your fall into madness
Don’t you fret at all
You know the nighttime slumber on an Indian Summer
The Devil makes his way
Inside you head inside you bed
It never goes away
Yeah

I cannot comprehend what’s coming after you
You pretend everything is alright now
But it’s not alright now
Another shadow man from the supernatural
Holds your hand in the moonlight of night now
Blood by candlelight now
I just don’t understand or realize that it’s just the damned
That gets you when you sleep now
You feel so incomplete now

Dreamcatcher
I’m your lucky charm
To stop the chaos and keep you safe from harm
You see the ancient beliefs of the Indian Chiefs
Will help you when you sleep
The feather band on the Talisman
Stop your lucid dreams
Yeah

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A.M.I.I.F.C.

I don’t mind opinions
Far from few are too corrupt
Just back it up
Everyday a new thing
News and media in your face
Feed the human race

I hope you don’t find me rude
Ba da da dat da
This is my attitude
Ba da da dat da
Psychologic warfare
Ba da da dat da
Sing along if you dare
Ask me if I fucking care

It takes all my patience
To not start a comment war
That’s what Facebook’s for
We’ve torn apart this country
Stand divided we all fall
All for one and one for all

I hope you don’t find me rude
Ba da da dat da
This is my attitude
Ba da da dat da
Psychologic warfare
Ba da da dat da
Sing along if you dare
Ask me if I fucking care

The Devil’s playing without rules
Ba da da dat da
Stand behind what you can’t prove
Ba da da dat da
I’m in the lead by a hair
Ba da da dat da
If you think that it’s unfair
Ask me if I fucking care

Suffer the countless to be used
Power controls your every move
Freedom with heart it sings the blues
Ignite the fuse

Who is really right and who is obstinately wrong
Popular views are strong
Much misinformation
We are stupid by default
Take it all with a grain of salt

“Blah blah blah me me me agenda agenda agenda money money money”
"Thank you"

I hope you don’t find me rude
Ba da da dat da
This is my attitude
Ba da da dat da
Psychologic warfare
Ba da da dat da
Sing along if you dare
Ask me if I fucking care

Everybody sing along
Everybody sing this song
Sing along if something’s wrong
Sing along if you dare
Ask me if I fucking care

Alea iacta est (“the die has been cast”)

Everybody sing along
Everybody sing this song
Sing along if something’s wrong
If you think that’s life’s unfair
Ask me if I fucking care

We’ve torn apart this country
Stand divided we all fall
All for one and one for all

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CONVERSATIONS WITH A SHADOW

Dreams in the morning
A fresh summer rain
The pull of gravity
Unrest as I wake

Lazy in the afternoon
Still horizontally
Staring at the ceiling
My life changed drastically

Yeah

A mass of grey clouds gather
The sound of ruby rain
A lightning crash and thunderbolt
From 10 miles away

Our love so sudden
A love so pure
Taken in an instant
A death premature

Flashes in the midnight air
Are hard to describe
Taking shape in human form
Disbelief by my eyes

Whoa Yeah

She passed me by a couple times
Disoriented
Though her aura and her energy
Knew she was dead

With baggy eyes and aching head
We sit all night long
To see you in a phantom state
While my sanity is gone

Conversations with your shadow
On a dreary afternoon
Here you are my baby
The cold spot in the room

Whoa Whoa

I see your silhouette when the lightning strikes
Through the window
I feel you presence in an empty room
No one should know
In this darkened place I see you there
When the lights are on you disappear
Through your eyes I see the unknown
But struggle to hear

Whoa

Dreams the next morning
After a night of sleep deprived
So vividly like cinema
You said your goodbyes

Conversations with your shadow
Feeding the wound
Here you are my baby
Shades of black and green and blue

Pass another year
And a thousand tears
As my mind decays
We will fade away

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RUBY RAIN

Heat lightning discharge
Events in the summer sky
High in the atmosphere
Like birds we fly
We scatter across the moon
Over a thousand years

Drown me five minutes a day late afternoon
In the ruby rain
Wash my sorrow away in the grassy dune
Come down ruby rain

Sun showers and stars
Blinding the rush hour cars
On the Sunshine Skyway
I drink at the bar
A toast to the happy hearts
If you’re going my way

Drown me five minutes a day late afternoon
In the ruby rain
Wash my sorrow away in the grassy dune
Come down ruby rain

Ruby Rain Oh Yeah Oh Yeah
Ruby Rain Oh Yeah Oh Yeah
Ruby Rain Oh Yeah Oh Yeah
Ruby Rain Oh Yeah Oh Yeah

A shadow of clouds arise from the setting sun
Nature’s skyscrapers
Sound waves in the air
Wind blowing on the water
The undertakers

Can you see the ruby rain flowing from the storm’s eye
Can you feel the ruby rain falling from the orange sky

The heat in the air full of humidity
We sweat like rainbows
A breeze fills my head full of tranquility
Wherever you go I go

Drown me five minutes a day late afternoon
In the ruby rain
Wash my sorrow away in the grassy dune
Come down ruby rain

Ruby Rain Oh Yeah Oh Yeah
Ruby Rain Oh Yeah Oh Yeah
Ruby Rain Oh Yeah Oh Yeah
Ruby Rain Oh Yeah Oh Yeah

Can you see the ruby rain flowing from the storm’s eye
Can you feel the ruby rain falling from the orange sky

Drown me five minutes a day late afternoon
Ruby rain
Drown me five minutes a day late afternoon
Ruby rain

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THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW NEVER COMES

I walk a lonely road
One I have never been before
It’s deprived of view
A thing or two you’ll never see
A brighter aura surrounding me
It’s orange and blue
Cuz I found you

So talk me off the ledge
When you walk all over me
See what I have done
The day after tomorrow never comes

It seems the saddest smile
Come only oh once in a while
We’ve had it before
But what’s once more
You’ll only be
A healing scar oh inside of me
If pain does fade
Why does it stay

So talk me off the ledge
When you walk all over me
See what I have done
The day after tomorrow never comes

Infinite is time
Though short is mine
If you stand on both legs at a time
You will find
Your mind
What passes by is left behind

Believe if nothing more
Nothing has ever existed before
Now that it is here
The path is clear
It’s nothing new
It's always been there inside of you
To face another day
This time be brave

So talk me off the ledge
When you walk all over me
See what I have done
The day after tomorrow never comes

So take me down that road
The one with many ways to go
Nervously numb
That the day after tomorrow never comes

I’ll talk you off the ledge
When I walk beside the Sun
Something has begun
Cuz The day after tomorrow will never come

Will never come
Will never come
Will never come

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DRASTIC MEASURES

Desperate times fall
The new world has begun
Sewing the seeds
Of ignorance
Propaganda strong
Divide and conquer
We all are constant
Victims of circumstance

Now and forever
Are drastic measures at hand
Forward and static
Are drastic measures at hand
Give way to all that be

A cry of silence
The words of many have none
Of voices no longer heard
From anyone
Hopelessly dire
I stoke the fire
In hopes for all to see
Standing alone against the unknown
A world of souls set free

Now and forever
Are drastic measures at hand
Forward and static
Are drastic measures at hand
Give way to all that be

Believe what you wanna
Just keep it away from me
Peach what they taught ya
Just keep it away from me

I am so tired

I am so wired

A question of freedom
No voice of reason
Will this ever end
One by one
It all comes down to this my friend
Are you prepared to lose it all

Now and forever
Are drastic measures at hand
Forward and static
Are drastic measures at hand
Give way to all that be

RELEASE DATE:
CD and downloads - November 17 2020
Streaming and download sites - December 29th 2020

This album included two leftover songs from the Nightmare and Bad Dreams sessions which were written and recorded during the original full pandemic shutdown. I decided to save them for the next album. The song “Drastic Measures”, I felt, would make a great album title as I already had a concept of the art in my head. “The Day After Tomorrow Never Comes” I felt was too similar to a lot of the poppy songs I already had on the Nightmares album, I had too much. I wanted the next album to reflect more of both of those, dark and brooding and semi-happy pop but I also wanted more of what I feltNightmares lacked (for me), more guitariness! Is that a word? I just declared Guitariness a word! Theses two songs sat until September when I had some time and some inspiration to start working on 2020’s second Schutt album.

All songs, written, produced, arranged, recorded, performed and produced by Gary Schutt. Recorded from May 11 2020 through October 8th 2020 at Shut Up Studios III, Clearwater FL USA. THANK YOU - Michael Caruso. Charles Scroggins. Nolan Strong. My Den Of Thieves family: Angie Campbell, Rob Bird, Rollie Feldman, Steve Farney. My Hairdaize family, Joey and Jo Bravo, Joe and Sandy Ojeda. My Mr. Bella family: Erinmarie Christian, Amir DaBiri, Eric Justice. My wonderful immediate family: all the Schutts, Heydenbergs, Miltenbergers and Thomas’. Fred Poole. John Ferra. Wilson. Kevan Geyer. Harry Howard. Tim Mulqueeny. My heart Kayla Trammell. Everyone that’s kept me busy and occupied through this insane year sofar! BIG THANK YOU to Icon Computer Solutions of Clearwater FL for resurrecting the damaged hard drive that this album’s sessions were on! Prop photos done at Shut Up Studios. Model photos done at All Access Recording, Clearwater FL. Thank you Ronnie & Doug. Artwork by Gary Schutt. I am a proud endorsing artists with Peavey Electronics, DiMarzio Pickups, Atomic Guitar Works, Gator Cases, Tremol-No. I’m very appreciative of all my fans and supporters, no matter what you believe. Keep sharing and spreading music! We NEED music! garyschutt.com palisaderecords.com @garyschuttmusic