Strittmater / Lentz 2019 - 2020 - Rick Strittmater

“Listening to Rick Strittmater and crew’s CD, 'Chasing the Shiny', takes you all the way from regret to revenge, to chillin’ the summer away in one experience. And, the musicianship is superb! What a ride!”

— Dr Fern Loos Beu - Clinical Psychologist

tell me now

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Who’s to say if you were right or you were wrong
You couldn’t tell me if you tried
All I know is any love you had is gone
A truth you tried to hide

All I know
Is what you show
I can’t believe you turned away
So where did I go wrong
Where do I belong
So tell me now

We made a life in a small midwestern town
A couple kids along the way
But what we had lies shattered on the ground
Don’t know why you choose to stay

All I know
Is what you show
I can’t believe you turned away
So where did I go wrong
Where do I belong
So tell me now

When you call my name
Will I listen yet again
Will I feel the same
in the end

It’s been a year if it’s been a day
Guess I should have seen the signs
Sorry now that I tried to make you stay
Just want to leave this life behind

All I know
Is what you show
I can’t believe you turned away
So where did I go wrong
Where do I belong
So tell me now

Where did I go wrong
Where do I belong
So tell me now

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Sawgrass calypso

rick strittmater©2020

Drinking till the daylight sleep till afternoon
Feel those ocean breezes drifting through my room
Shrimp out on the barbi. I’ll have some of those.
Catch another sunset, sand between my toes.

Good to take my shoes off, pushin through the sand
The surf is doing bass lines to an imaginary band
As long as you are near me, guess I’ll be just fine
Sawgrass and calypso easy on my mind

Do you really have to go
Guess I’ll be just fine
Saw grass and Calypso

I can’t help but wonder if you think of me
The days in Santa Teresa, playing in the sea
Guitars out on the beaches, a song beneath the stars
Hanging with tourists drinking in the bars

Surfboards and tee shirts, I will never leave
Listening to the locals, this is all I need
Maybe in the Summer if you change your mind
Sawgrass and calypso, guess I’ll be just fine.

Do you really have to go
Guess I’ll be just fine
Saw grass and Calypso

Drinking till the daylight sleep till afternoon
Feel those ocean breezes drifting through my room
As long as you are near me, guess I’ll be just fine
Sawgrass and calypso easy on my mind

Easy on my mind

Featured Vocalist - Kelsey Berdeguez

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Chasing The Shiny

rick strittmater©2020

Drifting through the hours in your parents upstairs room
Sleeping through the morning, movies in the afternoon
Watching time fly past you like some random paper plane
Why not do tomorrow what you’ll never do today

She is but a martyr in your latest greatest song
A whisper in the darkness, you’ve been away for far too long
A boat against the current, I'm surprised you even dared.
To wake up to a morning where you never really cared.

Stop me if I keep on talking, Slap me if I laugh
That suit and tie has made you older
So cynical and crass
Another plastic Jesus bouncing on your dash
Going for the shiny, never meant to last.

The dragon’s in your waist coat as night turns into day
She's checking her reflection in your aviator shades
Is the band getting bigger or just the art of noise
You'll be drinking with your buddies
She’ll be running with the boys

Sitting at the table you sat at as a kid
Going through the photos of the places that you've lived
Mom and Dad were younger, the apple of their eye
This big old house now empty, a place to say good bye

Stop me if I keep on talking, Slap me if I laugh
That suit and tie has made you older
So cynical and crass
Another Plastic Jesus bouncing on your dash
Chasin’ down the shiny, never meant to last

Featured Vocalist - Nathalie Jenette

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Dorothy Gale

rick strittmater©2020

Sky darkens
Winds a walin’
Got me prayin’ on my knees
She’s watching
As I was sayin’
She knows, ain’t nothin’ good for free

There’s no lookin’
There’s no waiting
Pick your corner in this war
She is lookin’
For redemption
And maybe just a little more

Dorothy Gale was my lover
Guess I lost her at the end
There's no measure
There's no other
Down the road and back again

There’s a train
There’s a station
Black house sittin’ off the rails
In a back room
Nightmare’s waitin'
This one built to run and fail.

My kin’s a rising
for the slaughter
Wayward son, wayward daughter
Slippin’ through
A door’s reflection
Find your bloodline in the water.

Dorothy Gale was my lover
Guess I lost her at the end
There's no measure
There's no other
Down the road and back again

Don’t look back
Just keep walkin’
Walk your shit right out of town
You’ve got something
I’ll be wanting
Don’t say nothin’ not a sound.

Dorothy Gale was my lover
Guess I lost her at the end
There's no measure
There's no other
Down the road and back again

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a fitting end

You sitting there, like a three headed viper
Waiting to tighten the noose
On a bad situation
Getting worse by the minute
How could you possibly refuse

I come home late, you're sitting in the darkness
A smile that caresses each ear
Your blood pressure rising
and me agonizing
My demise, without question, it appears

It’s so nice to see you
So glad you could make it
Hope it’s worth it in the end

I’m going to make you suffer
God knows you’ve earned it
A final round. A fitting end...

Is that Glen Fiddich, Lipstick on your collar
And some god awful cheap ass perfume
Your shirt tail’s hanging
Did you loose your jacket
Seems your the last to get the news

Your clothes in the street, your cell phone’s in the toilet
It’s seems it’s the least that I could do
I hope she’s pretty
Oh did I mention,
So good to know you take me for a fool

It’s so nice to see you
So glad you could make it
Hope it’s worth it in the end

Going to make you suffer
God knows you’ve earned it
A final round. A fitting end...

Your clothes in the street, your cell phone’s in the toilet
It’s seems it’s the least that I could do
I hope she’s pretty
Oh did I mention,
Your guitars are at the bottom of the pool

Featured Vocalist - Nathalie Jenette

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