Song Lyrics
I Am by Richard Schuttler
I am, I am I said
This is the place now is the time
I am, I am I said
This is the measure of my life
Oooh, seen a lot of things come down
Abraham, Martin, Bobby, John
I’m just trying to keep the dream alive
I’m just trying to carry on
I am (I am) I am I said
Come together, heed the call
I am, I am I said and we’ll
Break the chains, tear down the walls
All they wanna do is stir their storm
But they ain’t gonna drag me down (stand)
Cause I have faith that we can rise above
Take a stand and shout it out
I am (I am) I am I said
I am (I am) I am I said (stand)
I am, I am I said
Go take the message spread the word
I am, I am I said and
Together I think we can change this world
You know they’re out there and they’ll shoot you down
Replace your hope with fear and hate (stand)
But I believe that we can overcome If we
Only have a little faith
I am (I am)
I am I said
I am,
I am I said
I am (I am)
I am I said
I am,
I am I said
I am I said
I am I said
Perfect World by Richard Schuttler
Three second sound bites, spin doctors, talking heads
Supply side economics and the vanishing middle class
Vested interest buys the voice of common sense
Who knows what evil lurks within the hearts of men
I said I really must insist, don’t take no rocket scientist
Cause even I can figure out, what this is really all about
I’m here a knocking at the door but I’m not really
Sure if there’s room for us all
In their perfect world, in their perfect world
Angry white senators build a wall around the house
And they sell their soul to a demagogue who would drive their demons out
There’s talk of revolution and tough love what can it mean
Better ask the working girls off forty second street
I said I really must insist, don’t take no rocket scientist
Cause even I can figure out, what this is really all about
I’m here a knocking at the door, but I’m not really
Sure if there’s room for us all
In their perfect world, in their perfect world
And there are those who say there’s nothing you can do
Nothing left to give until there’s nothing left to loose
The corporation bought the pattens on the truth
With their pocket politicians in their polyester suits and
I said I really must insist, don’t take no rocket scientist
Cause even I can figure out, what this is really all about
I’m here a knocking at the door, but I’m not really
Sure if there’s room for us all
In their perfect world, in their perfect world
Wealth and privilege buys the ticket for the feast
And they serve their potent influence to the men who would be king and
All our problems photo opportunities for the
Self-appointed savior come to trickle down on me
I said I really must insist
Don’t take no rocket scientist
Cause even I can figure out
What this is really all about
I said I really must insist, don’t take no rocket scientist
Cause even I can figure out, what this is really all about
I’m here a knocking at the door but I’m not really
Sure if there’s room for us all
In their perfect world, in their perfect world
In their perfect world, In their perfect world
In their perfect world, In their perfect world
In their perfect world, In their perfect world
Knock Knock by Richard Schuttler
Rivers risen, ain’t nobody care
Don’t wanna get that we ain’t going nowhere
And there’s nowhere to go
Nowhere to go
Maybe we’re living in a nowhere land
Full of misdirection and slight of hand
It’s hard to step back
To see whats really going down
Knock knock
Knock knock
Knock knock
Too much darkness and not enough light
Nobody asking what’s the
Greater right and wrong
What’s going on
Whatever happened to the simple truth
Too many grifters hugging red, white and blue
And the devil dances
On a web of lies
Knock knock
Knock knock
Knock knock
Knock knock hello
Knock knock hello
Knock knock hello
Is anybody home?
You got the right to life and the freedom of choice
Eight billion people in a race to destroy
All that God has made
Seems ill gotten gain
How did lies become alternative facts
Fox guards the henhouse blowing
Smoke up your absent mind
But you ain’t getting high
Knock knock
Knock knock
Knock knock
Burn down the forest, fill the oceans with trash
Flood, fires, hurricanes, maybe god’s talking back
But we ain’t listening
Or is it, we don’t wanna hear?
Where is this going what is this defense
I keep on hearing that us against them
Well who is them
And is them us?
Knock knock
Knock knock
Knock knock
Is anybody home?
Is anybody home?
Is anybody home?
Is anybody home?
All I Need Is You by Richard Schuttler
Guess I headed down the road on a lost highway
Cause the farther I get I’m only farther away
A radio tower’s a beacon in the deep dark night
Can’t keep my mind from its wandering flight
All I, want is you,
All I need, is you
All I really want, is you,
All I need, is you, and it’s all I do
There’s a rhythm to the road playing to a choir
Of a thousand stars above burning my desire
Wind is whipping up and down my mind
As I slowly leave reality behind
All I, (all I really want) is you, (all I really need)
All I need, (all I really want) is you, (all I really need)
All I really want (all I really want) is you, (all I really need)
All I need (all I really want) is you, and it’s all I do, ah…
All I really want (no matter how much I try) is you, (can’t run away and hide)
All I need, (can’t escape the fact I’m) is you, (lost without you)
All I really want (no matter how far I go) is you, (I can’t let it go)
All I need, (cause all I really need is you) and it’s all I do
I can picture how she looks in the soft moonlight
The shimmer of her hair and her longing eyes
Can’t shake this image burning in my brain
And I swear it’s surely driving me insane
I’ll never be the same
Well maybe it’s time I stopped and turned it around
Yah maybe it’s time I put my feet back, on the ground
I know I need you baby I can’t deny
The way it’s tearing me up inside
All I really want, (all I really want) is you, (all I really need)
All I need, (all I really want) is you, (all I really need)
All I really want (all I really want) is you, (all I really need)
All I need (all I really want) is you
All I really want (no matter how much I try) is you, (can’t run away and hide)
All I need, (can’t escape the fact I’m) is you, (lost without you)
All I really want (no matter how far I go) is you, (I can’t let it go)
All I need, (cause all I really need is you) and it’s all I do
River Street by Richard Schuttler
Down on River Street
Rolling round in my back seat
With baby in an old Chevrolet
Nothing ventured, nothing gained
The world seemed like magic to me with
Endless possibilities
A place a time when you could still believe
You could reach out and touch your dreams
My fortune faded glory
A place a time, stage and story
And a taste lingers bittersweet (my eyes)
My eyes search for the traces
Local haunts, familiar faces
For a place that used to be
Going back to River St.
Out of place and incomplete
And you start to second guess
All the what ifs and what might have beens
I look around I see memories
The way it was in the used to be
I look around and remember when
The days were long and night was your best friend
My fortune faded glory
A place a time, stage and story
And a taste lingers bittersweet (my eyes)
My eyes search for the traces
Local haunts, familiar faces
For a place that used to be
Down on River Street
Rolling round in my back seat
With my baby in an old Chevrolet
Nothing ventured nothing gained
Seemed like only yesterday
Tomorrow was a world away
Now it seems it’s come and gone
You pick up the pieces and you carry on
My fortune faded glory
A place a time, stage and story
And a taste lingers bittersweet (my eyes)
My eyes search for the traces
The local haunts, familiar faces
For a place that used to be
For a place that used to be
Stream of Consciousness by Richard Schuttler
Lay me down
Daylight concealed in this hiding place
Time is lost
The only sound is my beating heart, and I’m aware
People come
People they go but they cannot see
The common thread
That binds us all to the way it must be, but I see
I know that I’m dreaming
Aloft in the rush of the wind
That follows the river
And stirs at the longing within
I know there’s something that’s talking to me
But I cannot make out the words
Pulling me closer it Beckons me in
To the way of all be it beginning and ends
In the stream of consciousness
I have set myself adrift
And when I reach the rivers end
It will all make perfect sense
Majesty towers
Over the space of my insignificance
Heaven resolves
The pageant and folly beyond our control, and I know
Nothing is over and nothing is ever undone
For we are to everything as everything is to us
I know there’s something that’s talking to me
But I cannot make out the words
Pulling me closer it Beckons me in
To the way of all be it beginning and ends
In the stream of consciousness
I have set myself adrift
And when I reach the rivers end
It will all make perfect sense
I know there’s something that’s talking to me
But I cannot make out the words
Pulling me closer it Beckons me in
To the way of all be it beginning and ends
In the stream of consciousness
I have set myself adrift
And when I reach the rivers end
It will all make perfect sense
Whatever Happened to Rock and Roll by Richard Schuttler
Whatever happened to Rock and Roll
Juke joint rhythm and Motown Soul
Ain’t got nothing against hip-hop & rap
But it don’t take long to get tired of that
I need to hear a little rhythm & blues
Memphis grind California grove
I wanna message tangled in a beat
Make you snap your fingers and move your feet
I need to feel that rhythm
Pound a message to my soul
It always lifts me higher
That’s how ya know
That it’s rock and roll
Whatever happened to a jump blues ride
Backbeat rhythm melody & rhyme
I ain’t a sayin that you gotta get back
But It really ain’t got much better than that
I need a shot of that rhythm & blues
Rock the pocket baby turn on the juice
Take you anywhere you wanna go
Just crank it up louder on the radio baby I
I need to feel that rhythm
Pound a message to my soul
It always lifts me higher
That’s how ya know, that’s how ya know, that’s how ya know
That it’s rock and roll
Whatever happened to Rock and Roll
Juke joint rhythm and Motown Soul
Don’t need a lot a subwoofer jazz
To help me find the beat cause I know where its at
I need a shot of that rhythm and blues
Memphis grind or a Wreck’n Crew
Better get down to your lost & found
Cause Rock and Roll turns the world around baby
I need to feel that rhythm
Pound a message to my soul
It always lifts me higher
That’s how ya know, that’s how ya know, that’s how ya know
I need to feel that rhythm
Pound a message to my soul
It always lifts me higher
That’s how ya know, that’s how ya know, that’s how ya know
That it’s rock and roll
That it’s rock and roll
That it’s rock and roll
That it’s rock and roll
This Dance (The Wedding Song) by Richard Schuttler
I take your hand
And you take my heart
We waited so long
For the music to start
And as the band begins to play
All of the world just fades away
I know this life is far too short
For all of the longing in my heart
So let the future pass
And baby we’ll have this dance
We move to the left
And we move to the right
We swing and we sway
Off into the night
And all the stars up in the sky
Bear witness the promise of our lives
And if we are true to loves design
Then I will be yours and you’ll be mine
And we’ll have this dance
All the rest of our lives
And the music will chase, all our troubles away
Every time, that I hold you in my arms
Baby we’ll have this dance
Baby we’ll have this dance (we’ll have this dance)
Baby we’ll have this dance (we’ll have this dance)
The rest of our lives (we’ll have this dance)
And the, music will chase (music will chase)
All our troubles away (all our troubles away every) every
Time that I hold you (time that I hold you)
In my arms (hold you In my arms)
(We’ll have this dance) baby we’ll have this dance
(We’ll have this dance) baby we’ll have this dance
(We’ll have this dance) the rest of our lives
(We’ll have this dance) baby we’ll have this dance