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The Beautiful Darkness

by Gary Schutt

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    The 15th studio solo release from multi-instrumentalist Gary Schutt. Another must have for any hard rock fan! The QR code in the booklet takes you to a webpage with lyrics, more art, album details and available videos.

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1.
The Beautiful Darkness 04:07
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Don’t pretend you’re dreaming Don’t think you’re alive Don’t extend a hand to the evil deep in side Looking up the stairway Downward is the spiral No escape beside you You’re stuck here all the while What points you in the wrong direction? Oh-oo-oh-oo-oh How do you harness Oh-oo-oh-oo-oh The beautiful darkness Seeing through the mind’s eye Vivid imagery Realistic in the moment Though a fading memory Don’t pretend you’re dreaming Don’t think you’re awake Don’t just lend a hand to the evil that you make What troubles you is disconnection Oh-oo-oh-oo-oh How do you harness Oh-oo-oh-oo-oh The beautiful darkness Oh-oo-oh-oo-oh Can you accomplish? Oh-oo-oh-oo-oh The beautiful darkness The energy inside our minds stretches our imagination Never thinking in real life the stuff that we could dream about Questions on the daily wake of why or how are infinite Pleading every night before I rest of how much I could do without What do you dream about? To take a leap of pure perception Could steer you in the wrong direction Oh-oo-oh-oo-oh How do you harness Oh-oo-oh-oo-oh The beautiful darkness Oh-oo-oh-oo-oh Can you accomplish? Oh-oo-oh-oo-oh The beautiful darkness
2.
Fly Interstellar 01:18
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(Instrumental)
3.
U F O 05:22
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Time for adventure Let’s make a midnight run In to the stars New life and new worlds With hostile weather And lay in the baking sun Don’t wanna leave The toxic air we breathe Indefinitely Come with me Countdown Lift off Outter space Hyperdrive Don’t you wanna go Take a ride in my U F O Strap down Blast off Hyperspace Atmosphere Don’t you wanna go Let’s get outta here in my U F O Fly interstellar A new home for you and I We know It’s a one way ticket To live and die alone In through wormhole I hope we survive this trip Into the unknown A billion miles we’ve flown A hundred years we’ve grown You’re my chaperone Countdown Lift off Outter space Hyperdrive Don’t you wanna go Take a ride in my U F O Strap down Blast off Hyperspace Atmosphere Don’t you wanna go Let’s get outta here in my U F O Hiding out at the secret event Near the Devil’s Tower Monument Midnight comes and all arrive The mother ship wants you to step inside One more adventure Let’s scope the outter rim For intellegent life forms On a planet in a goldilocks zone We’ll make first contact And play the music of Earth Interplanetary party Don’t you wake me from this damn daydream Alien scenery So come with me Countdown Lift off Outter space Hyperdrive Don’t you wanna go Take a ride in my U F O Strap down Blast off Hyperspace Atmosphere Don’t you wanna go Let’s get outta here in my U F O Space flight Firefly Gravity Serenity Don’t you wanna go Hop inside my U F O NASA Satallite Voyager Pioneer Don’t you wanna go Spend ten light years In my U F O Yeah yeah yeah U F O “Second star to the right, and straight on till morning.”
4.
Fading Light 06:14
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I don’t wanna hurt you I just need to breathe But taking a life is such a tragedy I have to contemplate just what this does to you But with your consent it’s what you wanted to So hold me close My little girl of mine I’m sucking your soul for the last time So take me in Baby You won’t hurt any more Just relax child and watch the blood pour I know you feel cold but I will warm your heart A permanent fix with a small scar Take my hand we will live for all time We can walk in the shadows We are divine I’m falling apart on the inside I’ll hand you my heart on the outside I’m falling apart on the inside I will hand you my heart The moon is full and the night is young We are alive We are the only ones Hide in the night Face your fears To love again and then dissapear All alone for eternity When darkness calls it’s just you and me Final flight when the fire ignites One by one in the fading light Across the street not down the road I see your face everywhere I go I’m contemplating letting it all go I can’t contain myself All alone for eternity When darkness calls it’s just you and me Final flight when the fire ignites One by one in the fading light Oh fading, fading light I will hand you my heart One by one in the fading light
5.
Goodnight Gray 04:36
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Good morning gray How are you today? A little bit brighter than yesterday Good morning blue How the hell are you? Same old story so what else is new (OOH) Good afternoon red Go get out of my head I’d rather be sleeping back home in bed Good evening green It’s so nice to be seen I used to be dirty but now I’m clean (OOH) Hello white Shining so bright Try as I might to make it through the night Hey there black Don’t’ give me no flack I’ll figure it out cuz I’ve got the knack (OOH) The clouds in the sky The fog in my eyes The sounds on the radio The sights are so bland Like the touch of a dead hand The smells of the city on to go (AH) But when Im with you (AH) The colors are in full hue Good morning gray Had another bad day I can’t erase the pain I wish it go away Goodnight gray I see you everyday For a while No denial So goodnight gray (OOH) Good morning gray What have you to say? Move along Sing a song Be on your way Good morning blue Are you feeling gray too? I hope you’re feeling better when the day is through (OOH) The clouds in the sky The fog in my eyes The sounds on the radio The sights are so bland Like the touch of a dead hand The smells of the city on to go (AH) When Im with you (AH) The colors are in full hue What’s up brown? Don’t you get me down I wanna wear a smile but I got your frown Goodnight gray I see you everyday For a while No denial So goodnight gray Goodnight gray Goodnight gray Goodnight gray I see you everyday Goodnight gray Goodnight gray Goodnight gray I wish you’d go away (OOH) HEY HEY HEY Goodnight gray Goodbye gray I won’t see you today I got better plans if that’s ok Goobye gray I won’t need you anymore
6.
Headwinds 05:22
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Resistance All the way Like an uphill straightaway It’s just like my life Something always in the way Too late to back down And start again from zero So much energy Wasted Out of control Backbeat Front seat Rear veiw window One man caravan Cranking stereo Facing the headwinds slow me down Always the headwinds get around On a road to nowhere I’m bracing On a road to nowhere I’m facing headwinds Backlash Talk trash Tabloid headlines Rumours Scandals Backrupt Finance Facing the headwinds slow me down Always the headwinds get around On a road to nowhere I’m bracing On a road to nowhere I’m facing the headwinds Facing the headwinds slow me down Always the headwinds get around Facing the headwinds slow me down Always the headwinds get around On a road to nowhere I’m bracing On a road to nowhere I’m facing I’m facing the headwinds Yeah Yeah Whoa!
7.
A Sanctuary Mind 04:52
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Baby can we dissapear Someplace where we want to go Take the pill and pick the path Somewhere high or somewhere low We can run but we cannot hide Somewhere deep inside We can seek but we cannot find A sanctuary mind Peace has never been a friend With the stomping noises neighbors make I can dream of sleepless nights And the bottomless of bloody lakes We can run but we cannot hide Somewhere deep inside We can seek but we cannot find A sanctuary mind Oh yeah Something in the devil’s eye That stares at you all through the night Wake me from this vivid dream Cuz life ain’t always what it seems We can run but we cannot hide Somewhere deep inside We can seek but we cannot find A sanctuary mind You can run but you cannot see What’s deep inside of me Step in line Cuz you cannot design A sanctuary mind
8.
The Spotlight 05:09
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On a lonely road to nowhere Doom is fate acceptable A million hearts of drums are beating In a world forgettable Stand up front and face the music Strangers eyes are all a glare So close your eyes and live the moment Breathe the hot a judging air High life Living the spotlight isn’t what it seems Hot white Into the spotlight Stars of make believe My life in the spotlight is a fantasy Bright lights Living in spotlights Living all your dreams Move it fast but take it easy Slow your repitition down Relax your mind Enhace your focus Keep your ego on the ground Make it tight Construct it simple Build the hook a catchy tune Punchy riff and take a solo It’s the best that you can do High life Living the spotlight isn’t what it seems Hot white Into the spotlight Stars of make believe My life in the spotlight is a fantasy Bright lights Living in spotlights Living all your dreams Double down Gamble your life away Break new ground Ignore what the critics have to say High life Living the spotlight isn’t what it seems Hot white Into the spotlight Stars of make believe My life in the spotlight is a fantasy Bright lights Living in spotlight Blown to smithereens High life Living the spotlight isn’t what it seems Hot white Into the spotlight Land of make believe My life in the spotlight is a fantasy Bright lights Living in spotlights Losing all your dreams
9.
A Dream Of Consciousness 05:43
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A nightmare is a thing you don’t understand It takes you to a world A foreign land Vivid dreams of color Night terrors so real Lost in a state of what you feel Crawing through shadows and dark alleyways Like like walking through water A memory haze Faces are blurry though I know who they are Conversations in silence No words after dark A dream of consciousness Subconscious and meaningless Awake so weary and due to unrest A dream of consciousness At night time there’s a shadow that stands on the wall If I stare too long it starts to crawl If lucid dreams are real Why do they exist? Realistic illusion Physical with a twist Chaos in the mind in the hours so late No flow or order No means of escape Dreams are premonitions of the astral plane world But the vision fades quickly upon your return A dream of consciousness Subconscious and meaningless Awake so weary and due to unrest A dream of consciousness Can you help me? Can you save me? Can you find me in all this debris? Can you take me? Can you wake me? Remember nothing is what it seems All I recall nothing at all All forgotten and all is a waste With such an effort of brain function In an unconscious state Uncontrollable stream of thought I provoke A shock to the system I awoke Imagination astounding prevails A descent into madness of a dark tale A dream of consciousness Subconscious and meaningless Awake so weary and due to unrest A dream of consciousness A dream of consciousness Subliminal and senseless Alive and leary and often distressed A dream of consciousness
10.
Keep Your Distance 07:52
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When I run I run alone You can’t stop me Survival 101 I’ll find you when I’m done Watch your back now You can’t see you’re in danger Would you rather be without you or without me? A guilty man He pleads no innocence When your time is up Your time has come A victim of a well laid circumstance Someone told me When I hide I hide alone You can’t find me Truth in you I can confide Loving you cold suicide Running free and running scared Keep it inside Run away cuz I don’t care Feels like running out of air A guilty man He pleads no innocence When your time is up Your time has come One bad move leads to consequence Someone told me Keep your distance I don’t wanna be around you anyway Keep your distance I don’t hear the sound of anything you say The smell of tension in the air You can’t taste it We’re running out of time I got yours and you got mine A cry for help when no one hears Share your story It’s only one more fear One that’s far and one that’s near A guilty man He claims no innocence When your time is up Your time has come A victim of this well laid circumstance Someone told me Keep your distance I don’t wanna be around you anyway Keep your distance I don’t hear the sound of anything you say Someone told me Keep your distance I don’t wanna be around you anyway Someone told me Keep your distance I don’t hear the sound of anything you say Oh yeah Someone told me Keep your distance I don’t wanna be around you anyway Keep your distance I don’t hear the sound of anything you say Someone told me Keep your distance I don’t wanna be around you anyway Someone told me Keep your distance I don’t hear the sound of anything you say I’ll just go away Keep your distance I don’t wanna be around you anyway Someone told me Keep your distance I don’t hear the sound of anything you say

about

The Beautiful Darkness is the 15th solo studio album from multi-instrumentals/composer Gary Schutt, and the 4th album within two years! This is a full on, guitar driven rock album!

Sounds like, inspired by, but not limited to: Van Halen, Rush, Foo Fighters, Alice In Chains, Stone Temple Pilots, Chevelle, Dream Theater, Extreme, Winger, Sevendust.

credits

released February 22, 2022

All songs written, performed, produced, mixed and mastered by Gary Schutt.  Artwork by Gary Schutt.

Thank you Michael Caruso, Steve Farney, Charles Scroggins, Ian VanCattenburch, Ken Tamplin, Shannon Thomas, Nolen Strong, Greg Titzer, Ronnie Dee, Darque Deeter, QA worldwide, Robert Butterworth and Blue Magic Strings, Mike Carter at Zildjian, my heart and smiles Kayla Trammell and her family, Linda and Dick Heydenburg, Joey Bravo, Joe Ojeda, Ricky Sanders, Angie Campbell, Rollie Feldman, Rob Bird, William Schutt.

We’ve lost too many people this past year.  Rest In Peace Justin Murr, Gar Bachman, Mary Schutt, Kevin Astl. 

Endorsements: Peavey amps and basses, Atomic Guitar Works, Blue Magic Strings, DiMarzio pickups and accessories, Gator cases and Tremol-No. 

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