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Gotta Get Outta Here

from Attractive Nuisance by The Innocent Bystanders

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Gotta Get Outta Here explodes through a breakup that begins with a whirling B3 pumping through a Leslie rotary speaker on top of a rock beat that crescendos into the opening line. “The wind was blowing.” Yes, it was as the singer “waited by the crossroads for your love to ease my fear.” He reminisces about a hoped for path together that has been lost while he still travels it. The sense of uncertainty is punctuated by harmony sax counterpoint to each vocal phrase. Until finally, he “will not wait to see redemption” and breaks free as a searing guitar coda paints a picture of the horizon receding in a “stared into rearview mirror.” He’s done it. He’s gotten out. But he’s still looking back.

Gotta Get Outta Here was originally written by Rob Karp in the 1990s for his band Redemption.

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The wind was blowing as the leaves blow through the air
I watch them flow from here to there
My love is sinkin’ and my mind is so unclear
I think I really gotta get out of here

I took your hand and walked down roads of ever after
I would have carried you down there
Now every road I travel, I’m not sure where to steer
But I know I’ve gotta get out of here

I’ve gotta get out of here
I wish that God would show me mercy
My eyes are so unclear that I don’t know where to go
My heart is wrapped in golden ribbon
And my soul has been stripped bare
I will not wait to see redemption
And I’ve gotta get out of here

I waited by the cross roads, for your love to ease my fears
But the wind just blew in circles, and my eyes just bathed in tears
So I looked both ways and started to move as if I didn’t have a care
Stared into my rear view, and said I’ve gotta get out here

credits

from Attractive Nuisance, released November 1, 2017
Words & Music by Robert M. Karp
Recorded & Mixed by Ben Moore, Singing Serpent Studios
Mastered by Dave Gardner, Infrasonic Sound
Produced by The Innocent Bystanders & Ben Moore

Steve Berenson – drums & percussion
Jessica Lafave – tenor saxophone
Ben Nieberg – acoustic guitar, lead vocal, & background vocal
Kath Rogers – background vocal
Donny Samporna – electric 5-string bass
Steve Semeraro – electric 6-string guitars (Stratocaster rhythm & Telecast lead)
Kaimi Wenger – electric piano & Hammond B3

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