From the recording Music Is The Ride
The Outsider is my sci-fi western, sort of Johnny Cash meets the X-Files. You are not supposed to have favorite songs like you are not supposed to like one child better than another, but this one is special to me. It started with the idea that Jesus was off planet and came around to check things out and no one recognized him. Considering it was written in 2014 the idea of "the next unknown disease" has a chilling clairvoyant effect, and it was simple to slightly rewrite to "who made coronavirus?" in the last verse. Conspiracy theory? Looking back, perhaps not so much theory anymore. Daniel Polyak, our Heartbeat was really on this one, thank you brother and somehow Tony Sheppard bridges the gap between the country western and sci-fi in his amazing guitar.
Lyrics
The Outsider
Words and Music
by Richard Schulman
I’m the outsider,
A stranger wherever I go
All faces become the same
No one knows
Or remembers my name
The secret password
Promising wisdom and light
War, depression, revolutions,
Religious insight
A surface sideshow
Don’t trust appearances
Issues, emotions, desires,
Myth, magic and pyramids
I’m the outsider,
A stranger wherever I go
All faces become the same
No one knows
Or remembers my name
The tip of an iceberg
Mostly hidden below
Holding precious knowledge
All would like to know
Humans without hope
No one to hear their pleas
Stockpiled bombs, toxic waste
The next unknown disease
They are scared want to run and hide
A truth they are unprepared
To take inside
They are scared want to run and hide
A truth they are unprepared
To take inside
Power and purpose, icons and images
Secrets and plans,
Designed to be out of their hands
Who killed JFK?,
Who made coronavirus?
Relics from the past
What is fact? Fiction? Don’t ask
I’m the outsider,
A stranger wherever I go
All faces become the same
No one knows
Or remembers my name
No one knows
Or remembers my name