Step in to the Light

Robert James

I keep waffling on whether I like this one or not. Right now I’m okay with it, but sometimes I just want to junk it. I think I’m too close to all of this stuff to know what’s good and what isn’t.

The star of the show here is clearly the Garageband session drummer. Garageband has a function where it will come up with a drum track for you. You can tweak it in 100 different ways, but the end result is always better than anything I can play in myself, so I use it all the time. In this case, Benny the Garageband drummer leads the way… which is odd because it’s set to follow the bass track. Whatever, the fills it came up with were sweet.

The rhythm guitar is a Gibson ES-335 into a Klon KTR and a Malaise Forever Black Lives Matter into both a Fender Bassbreaker 15 and a Vox AC15. The leads are a Gibson Les Paul Custom into the same rig. There’s also a touch of Dunlop Crybaby wah in that little buried part under the drum solo-ish thing.

Chorus
Step in to the light
Come out of the night

Verse 1
Here the words he says to you
listen when he speaks
anything you can undo
he’s a lying freak

Verse 2
He will try to break you down
but he won’t succeed
he is just an lying clown
it is guaranteed