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The Scared of America song sample is the 1st track on our new album Greatest Hits, Vol. Two ‘Les Paul’s’ (The Paul’s) that was released by the USA’s Studio City’s Unlimited Sounds LLC in conjunction with London’s Swiss Cottage Recordz on 17 April 2020 and features all original songs by ‘Les Paul’s’ (The Paul’s) (please take a good look at the album’s cover artwork and hope it doesn’t make you feel dizzy)!
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Track Description
The album opens with this ‘pop/rock’ track that hits you straight in the face with its clear unequivocal message and may have been seen by some as a commentary on the office of the newly elected 45th President Donald Trump who took office on 20/01/17, but the song is intended as a general contemporary reflection of America.
The track tips its hat to the late great David Bowie’s 1997 track from his album Earthlings’ called ‘I’m Afraid Of Americans’ and if you listen carefully you can hear Tibetan Prayer Bells and a contrasting bass line played against the melody combined with the track’s thought provoking and biting lyrics.
The track opens with the lines’, I’m scared of America/That Alpha Male/‘I’m scared of America/with that sting in its tail. America perhaps depicted as a scorpion ready to strike when provoked by another country or regime it perceives as being a threat to its own interests and will learn about President Bush screaming for war’ and ‘no-one knowing what he’s screaming for on the album’s 13th track ’Washington’s Blues’).
The track’s storyline takes you to Las Vegas considered by some to be a sinful city (perhaps reminiscent of the Biblical towns of Sodom and Gomorrah) that panders to man’s pursuit of avarice and vice with many of the city’s casino’s originally established and run by the Mafia. The magnetic compass points north, in America it points to Las Vegas – I stepped on a compass/Found myself there/On a bus in Vegas/An American nightmare.
The track continues, Corruption on Capitol Hill/Discrimination way down South. So many millionaire-US-politicians are now under investigation to establish the source of their wealth as many are paid by large US corporations to put forward laws beneficial to those corporations, in most people’s eyes ‘corruption’ in its purest form but many turn a blind eye to it up on Capitol Hill. And the deep South, still home to the Klu Klux Klan and extremists expounding racial discrimination (refer to the album’s 14th track, ‘When Will We Ever Overcome?’), where there are So many ready to kill/you’d better not open your mouth and disagree with their right to ‘bear arms’ as the daily toll of murders across the US rises to new levels for, Mama’s got a gun/ And so has her son!
Jesus was American/So Hollywood maintains/Maybe he was Mexican/That sneaked in on the train, which indeed is a dig at Trump in his often repeated and almost fanatical and scaremongering claim that ‘all Mexicans are criminals and that they must build a wall to stop them sneaking in’!
Everyone there is encouraged to believe in and to Follow the American Dream, although for many it is not a dream but a nightmare, and to appear tough and strong and Do the John Wayne Walk, as the weak and feeble will be left behind.
The track ends not an an anti-American note but in the realization that in spite of all its faults, America, where would we be without you/America, God bless America and our song God Bless America closes our album!
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Scared of America Lyrics
I’m scared of America
That Alpha Male
I’m scared of America
With that sting in it’s tail
I stepped on a compass
And found myself here
On a bus in Vegas
An American nightmare
I’m scared of America
It’s too big for me
I’m scared of America
Trapped in the ‘Land of The Free’
Corruption on Capitol Hill
Discrimination way down south
So many are ready to kill
You’d better not open your mouth
I’m scared of America
Moma’s got a gun
I’m scared of America
And so has her son
Jesus was American
So Hollywood maintains
Maybe he was Mexican
That sneaked in on the train
Follow the American Dream
Do the John Wayne walk
Gotta have plenty of Greens
Coz here money talks, money talks, money talks
I’m scared of America
I know you couldn’t care less
Where would we be without you
America, God bless, America
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All songs composed and performed by Paul Odiase (BMI 1252265)
All lyrics written by Paul Robert Thomas (PRS 497904008).
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