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They Don't Want You Around

from CHECK OUT THE Beat SIDE (11 song ALBUM) by STRATTON

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An Anthem for all the Oppressed of the World.
Written in response to the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

(Also checkout the Georgia Guidestones).

lyrics

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.

credits

from CHECK OUT THE Beat SIDE (11 song ALBUM), released July 7, 1995
The STRATTON band is:
Mary-Margaret Stratton: vocals, keyboards, sequencing
Cary Stratton: vocals, drums, percussion, additional keyboards
Mark Moulin: lead and rhythm guitars
Fernand Bos: bass

Engineered by Jack Lee
Recorded at JaxTrax, North Hollywood, CA
Mixed by Scott Blackwell, N-Soul REcords

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Copyright © Mt. Tamalpais Music (ASCAP)
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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. ... more

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