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Mr Control (feat. James Stanger)

from World On Fire by Lord Baldwin

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I had my friend James Stanger and his family come over for dinner and I asked him about how the lead guitar should progress. On the second time through James was playing lead guitar not knowing I had the microphone on, and the rest is history.

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Mr. Control

A7 G7 A7
Mr., Mr., Mr., Mr., Mr. Control.
A7 G7 A7
Mr., Mr., Mr., Mr., Mr. Control.

He’s out there, at every workplace you are at or will ever go.
He may be in some top office or out there with you on the floor.
He wants you to believe you’re free to decide; to be your own man,
but in truth, he wants control over everything he can.

A7 G7 A7
Mr., Mr., Mr., Mr., Mr. Control.
A7 G7 A7
Mr., Mr., Mr., Mr., Mr. Control.

You may think it’s you that’s there to be getting that job done,
it’s you they’ll be coming to and it’s you that’s under the gun,
but someone interceding and redoing all you did and more,
you have to wonder why and what you’re doing all this for.

Mr., Mr., Mr., Mr., Mr. Control.
Mr., Mr., Mr., Mr., Mr. Control.

They say’s that they encourage new thoughts from you and me,
and when that fresh idea appears, they may even seem to agree,
but everything is filtered through their perspective for their gain
and they’ll always get the credit when it comes around again.

Mr., Mr., Mr., Mr., Mr. Control.
Mr., Mr., Mr., Mr., Mr. Control.

He or she is out there lurking amongst your family and friends,
taking liberties and undue control with their own means to their ends.
They need to micro-manage, no matter how small or large,
they want to have the last word; they need to be in charge.

Mr., Mr., Mr., Mr., Mr. Control.
Mr., Mr., Mr., Mr., Mr. Control.

Every step of every action done by you within that role
is not-so-secretly being structured skillfully by remote-control.

credits

from World On Fire, released December 24, 2013
James Stanger on lead guitar

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Lord Baldwin Olympia, Washington

Lord Baldwin has created 44 ALBUMS
between 1991 and 2001

Between 2011 and 2023, created, 23 ALBUMS

Published a 4-book series called, “Stepping Between The Ants”

A 4-book series called, “From The Lost Letters Sent” chronicling the first 44 albums' songs created between 1968 to 2001

As playwright, wrote a musical play (book) called;
““RESILIENT the Musical” A Web-Based Episodic Play & Story” ... more

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