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It's Not About You

by LaVon Hardison

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The last few years have been a punch to the gut on so many levels: COVID, political division, and much free-flowing nonsense spoken by those who would have been more useful staying silent. I guess this is my version of Carol King’s “You’re So Vain” with a lot of heavy sighing and eye-rolling.

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Yes, you are special,
Yes indeed, you know that it's true
Comes from your “natural birth”
And probably from being homeschooled

You know God got “touchy” with you
He high-fived Jesus and said “Damn, my work is good!”
And I know you think creation was intended just for you
True you got game
Just cause I don't say it, don't mean it's your name

It's not about you, it's not about you, it's not about you.

Yes, you're uncommon
Nothing about you is normal (that much is true)
You're just like Adam
in that Sistine Chapel Michelangelo drew

(refrain)

It must be hard just circling the planet
High above the common mass of folk
I must be hard to manage such fruition
touched by angels ling a life of smoke
It must be hard to know how much you matter
To know your path is destined in good time
A word from you the peasants start to scatter
Thinking you're our captain and the were your crew

It’s not that we're losers and you are the winner
It’s not you’re a saint and the rest of us sinners
It’s not that we're slow and that you're so much faster
It's not we've got slave mind and you are the master
S'not really a toast if there's only one cup
It ain't ‘bout nobody not being enough
It ain't that we're weak and you're carrying the slack
It's more that you don't know the view from the back

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released December 6, 2023
LaVon Hardison: vocals, backup vocals,
Brad Gibson: drums / percussion

Tim Kennedy: piano, keyboard, guitar

Hans Teuber: flute, sax, horns, keyboards, horn arrangements

Ian Sheridan: bass


Cover Design Scott Stevens
Produced and mixed by Tim Kennedy

Mastering by Ian Sheridan
Recorded at Jack Straw Studios

Recording Engineers Ayesha Ubayatilaka and Joel Maddox

All songs written by LaVon Hardison, all rights reserved

Special thanks to the Jack Straw Artist Support Program

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LaVon Hardison Olympia, Washington

LaVon Hardison, “an artist for whom the song is king” (Earshot Jazz), has a glossy, warm tone and infectious stage presence. Trained in jazz and classical vocal technique, LaVon has a developed a musical persona as a jazz singer with a rock-and-roll sensibility. Beneath the core jazz sound of her original songs and covers bubbles a gumbo of soul, rock, country, gospel, pop, and even punk. ... more

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