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PHOTO (middle, upper right) - Headshot for Strider...Steps Out / New Sky Records promotional kit - circa 1989 - Photo by Burr Miller taken at Pacific Songworks/Intermix Studios, Los Angeleles, CA.

Written in 1987-88 in my West Los Angeles apartment. A friend of my roomate’s was an English major, and a writer, and he kept telling me to dig deeper, and keep re-writing this song’s lyric. I stayed at it, and I’m glad I did.

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SAY IT TO ME
(Strider)
I heard it from a friend of yours
She heard it from a friend of mine
I hear it though it’s never said
I can read it in your eyes
I feel it in the way we touch
The empty way we kiss at night

There’s a silent fear between us
Like a wall of frozen rain
Before we lose the feeling
Is it too much to explain?

Say It To Me
Say it to me right out loud
Say It To Me
Let me hear it, scream it out
Just, Say It To Me
Say It To Me, hear and now
Say It To Me, Say It To Me

Tell me I’m a dreamer
Tell me I’m a lonely one
Tell me I’m a user
Taking love and giving none
Tell me like you mean it
And never tell another one

You can hide your hurt and anger
You can lock away your tears
But we won’t survive together
Why not cut right through your fear

Say It To Me
Say it to me right out loud
Say It To Me
Let me hear it, scream it out
Just, Say It To Me
Say it to me hear and now
Say It To Me, Say It To Me

(Instrumental solo - electric guitar - Corky James)

Why not cut right through your fear

Say It To Me
Say it to me right out loud
Say It To Me
Let me hear it, scream it out
Just, Say It To Me
Say it to me hear and now
Say It To Me, Say It To Me
Say It To Me, Say It To Me
Say It To Me, Say It To Me

(spoken) “Say It To Me.”

©1990 Pacific Songworks (BMI)
℗1990, 2017 New Sky Records

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from STRIDER​.​.​.​Steps Out, released January 1, 1990
MUSICIANS
CORKY JAMES: Acoustic & Electric Guitars
PETE FAUSONE: Drums, Percussion
JON STRIDER: Vocals, Keyboards, Synth Bass

Written, Produced and Arranged by JON STRIDER
Recorded & Mixed by PETE FAUSONE, Los Angeles, CA U.S.A (1989)
Mastered by PER LINDBERG at Pling Plong Studio, Malmö, Sweden (2017)

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Jon Strider Malmö, Sweden

Performing singer-songwriter, musician and record producer from California - 9 solo CD's on New Sky Records - Music style: "Retro rocking' Country with a Blues&Rhythm twist" and "Rhythm n' Folk" - Career migration track: SF Bay Area to L.A., through Nashville & Austin to Sweden, (for19 years) and back... ... more

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