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STRATTON Introduction
00:34
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Extra ordinary music has to be performed by entertainers extra ordinary.
Two such people are Cary, top professional,
and his partner, Mary-Margaret, talented amateur.
Also known as STRATTON.
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Yer So Cul
by Cary Stratton and Mary-Margaret Stratton
You look however you want to
You go where nobody dares
You hangin' out at the soap plant
You got the job upstairs.
You're so cool
You don't like nothing new
You're so cool
I can't get next to you.
You got the blue and the black on
You don't go out to be seen
Lou Reed ain't got nothing on you
Your attitude's so mean.
You're so cool
You don't like nothing new
You're so cool
I can't get next to you.
BRIDGE:
You don't owe nobody
You don't need a thing
You don't want nobody
Your telephone doesn't ring.
Don't follow the fashion
You got your own kinda style
From button to the soul now
Your hair is perfectly wild.
You're so cool
You don't like a nothing new
You're so cool
I can't get enough of you.
You're so cool
You don't like nothing new
You're so cool
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Nobody Listens
03:22
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Nobody Listens
by Mary-Margaret Stratton
I was just sitting there all by myself
Dark angel passed over and broke my shelf
Can't get another one it's been discontinued
I tried to call but I just can't get through
Can't get through
You say you hear me, but I disagree
Cause nobody listens
Nobody listens to me
Whatever happened to the competent man?
ha was outnumbered he's got no place to stand
Where is my father cause he started it first yah
I'm just a woman I've got nothing to say
Nothing to say
You say you hear me, but I disagree
Cause nobody listens
Nobody listens to me
BRIDGE:
Told you up and down and straight in the eye
You nodded understand, that was a lie
It's lonely on the honor roll
I wanna die
I wanna die.
You say you hear me, but I disagree
Cause nobody listens
Nobody listens to me
Nobody listens to me Nobody listens to me
Nobody listens to me Nobody listens to me
Nobody listens to me Nobody listens to me
Nobody listens to me Nobody listens to me
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Atlas Cried
02:47
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Atlas Cried
by Mary-Margaret Stratton
Tracks laid down to last all time,
Now only fossils remain.
An age of endurance discarded,
And who will take the blame.
CHORUS:
Atlas Cried The soul of a nation has died
Atlas Cried The soul of a nation has died
Backbone of our country,
Forging ahead unto lands unknown.
Bringing a nation together,
Undaunted and alone.
CHORUS:
Atlas Cried The soul of a nation has died
Atlas Cried The soul of a nation has died
Whistle sounds in the distance,
A lonely call in the wild.
Another endangered species...
CHORUS:
Atlas Cried The soul of a nation has died
Atlas Cried The soul of a nation has died
Steady and strong — here and gone...
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They Don't Want U Around
by Cary and Mary-Margaret Stratton with additional music by Mark Moulin
They don't want u around.
You'd be better off dead.
They don't want u around,
They don't want to remind — what they did and they said.
They don't want u around,
Cause u just had to be free.
So they poison your brain and leave u to die by the hand of your own.
Cause they don't want u around.
Bullet flies through the air.
Catch the wind as it flies.
Catch the life of the ones,
the innocent ones — in whom the future lies.
Bullet flies through the air,
Under a veiled guise.
It's a war of the world, but it's still controlled by the master's eyes.
Cause they don't want u around.
BRIDGE
Don't buy in, look around you'll find...
All is alive — ghetto's in your mind.
They don't want u around,
And u know that it's true.
Take the escape that they sell,
Because they know — it will separate u.
They don't want u around,
But u fit in the plan.
cause it's cheaper to die by the sword and the vile than the insurance plan.
And they don't want u around.
BRIDGE:
Don't give in, just see through.
Take the power — owned by you.
Cause we want you around.
And we all want to be free.
We want to move on,
But we want to remind of how it used to be.
And we want you around.
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Jackie
04:04
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Jackie
by John Avgeris (with additional lyric by Cary Stratton)
Jackie's got a raw deal,
but I don't care.
You say she's sleeping on the sidewalk
when there's nobody there.
Well everybody hurts sometimes,
but you got yours,
and I've got mine.
So lets talk about something else...
She just want's to scream about it
she just wants to scream
she just wants to scream about it
so go on and scream
hey jackie
where are you going?
Jackie's got a Jesus that I can't see.
Sometime's you want to scream out loud
bout everything that's going down
so you take a walk to a side street bar
but you've got no money
you got no car
so tell me...
who will it be tomight?
She just want's to scream about it
she just wants to scream
she just wants to scream about it
so go on and scream
hey jackie
where are you going?
hey jackie
where have you been?
She just want's to scream about it
she just wants to scream
she just wants to scream about it
so go on and scream
hey jackie
where are you going?
hey jackie
where have you been?
what you gonna do when your world comes down
what you gonna do when there's no one around
hey jackie,
jackie,
jackie
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Eventually
02:45
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Eventually
by Mary-Margaret Stratton
I understand, you've known her for a long long time.
I understand, but just think it over and you'll find.
When you're gone it won't take a while.
You'll be in her arms, but you're thinking of my smile.
CHORUS:
Eventually Eventually
I understand too well what's been going on.
I have the right to know before you're gone...
What's her name and does she know about me?
When you look in her eyes, my love's what you see.
CHORUS:
Eventually Eventually
Eventually Eventually
BRIDGE:
Cause baby I was meant for you, and you for me.
We go together perfectly.
And baby I will be with you, and you with me.
It's gonna end up that way...
I understand she meant alot to you,
And it'll be hard to do what you have to do.
She won't understand, you may lose a friend.
But honey you know, I'm worth it in the end.
CHORUS:
Eventually Eventually
Eventually Eventually
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8. |
In Their Hands (Remix)
02:54
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In Their Hands
by Mary-Margaret Stratton
A little girl comes home from school alone.
Mama's workin' hard, they're livin on their own.
A little boy, runs out of the door.
Daddy yells away, little sister hits the floor.
CHORUS:
They're just small souls, colorless and whole
Will we never understand?
forever's in their hands, In their hands.
Little girl, growin' up confused,
Has children of her own, neglected and abused. guitar fill
Little boy, he tries to understand,
But he mirrors what he sees, grows up an angry man
CHORUS:
They're just small souls,
colorless and whole
Will we never understand?
Forever's in their hands,
In their hands.
In their hand
In their hands
In their hands
BRIDGE:
You know, you know, you know, you know, you know
You know, you know, you know, you know, you know
you know, you know, you know, you know
You gotta take a righteous stand,
And lead them best you can cause
Forever's in their hands. It's in their hands
In their hands... in their hands.
in their hands... in their hands.
in their hands... in their hands.
in their hands... in their hands.
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Nikola
02:29
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Nikola
by Cary Stratton and Mary-Margaret Stratton
A man knew how to save the world we know,
A man with a secret and they let him go.
A flash of lightning through his mind,
One that would save mankind.
CHORUS:
Nikola Nikola
Nikola Nikola
But men of great vision are not often heard.
They cry out for justice, we don't say a word.
The crime is standing by,
and watching saviors die.
CHORUS:
Nikola Nikola
Nikola Nikola
Who can find peace in the grey skies ahead?
The power we use and abuse leaves us dead.
The crime is standing by,
and watching one world die.
CHORUS:
Nikola Nikola
Nikola Nikola
OUTCHORUS:
The man left a legacy yet unfulfilled.
Still we continue against God's will.
The crime is letting it go on,
When we know what must be done.
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10. |
Et Elle Est (And She Is)
02:34
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And She Is
by Cary Stratton and Mary-Margaret Stratton
So soft
and then so strong
Even when you're right
She is never wrong
CHORUS:
Comment dire - combien je'laime
Et elle est...
(How can I say - how much I love her?)
(And she is...)
She smiles
and then a frown
She can fly you to the sun
And she will take you down
CHORUS:
Comment dire - combien je'laime
Et elle est...
BRIDGE:
instrumental
OUT CHORUS:
Et elle est...
Et elle est...
Et elle est...
Et elle est...
Et elle est...
Et elle est...
Et elle est...
Et elle est...
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God Only Knows
by Cary and Mary-Margaret Stratton
We drank to your passing, a night in Tanquery.
The man who was serving didn't care anyway.
We were telling each other of another lost day
A man was a mortal, it got in the way
CHORUS:
So I bought me a bottle, and I planted a rose.
Who do I turn to now God only knows?
Azrael's callen', that's how he goes...
Who do I turn to now, God only knows?
You did it all so, how can it be said.
You left us too soon we, were lucky you stayed.
What have you left, but a few broken dreams?
A fold who will follow onto other means.
CHORUS:
So I bought me a bottle, and I planted a rose.
Who do I turn to now God only knows?
Azrael's callen', that's how he goes...
Who do I turn to now, God only knows?
BRIDGE:
Night after night, our ears fell down.
The mighty are shortened, and steady, unsound.
The clubs may be silenced, the grime stands by.
A man with a jonie will die
CHORUS:
So I bought me a bottle, and I planted a rose.
Who do I turn to now God only knows?
Azrael's callen', that's how he goes...
Who do I turn to now, God only knows?
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STRATTON Las Vegas, Nevada
Mary-Margaret Stratton is a graduate of UCLA School of Fine Arts, published poet and a natural at composing and sequencing.
She is also an Award winning Art Director.
Cary Stratton’s background includes international touring and recording working with some of L.A.’s finest musicians.
Cary also worked in the Post Production film business.
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