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PHOTO (upper right) Recent photo taken of the "outside cover" cassette graphics for the original 1990 unmastered version of "STRIDER...Steps Out". The original album cover was taken by Burr Miller, in 1989, at Pacific Songworks/Intermix Studios, Los Angeles, CA.

If you listen close, you’ll realize this song is about a clandestine affair “...under covers everywhere” cloaked in shadows and the KGB, to protect the guilty party who was singing the song. Kind of a “Norwegian Wood” kind of song...

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SECRET CITY
(Strider)
I met K. in Secret City
She was trying to escape
said, “You can’t get out of here,
‘least not that way
Breaking out can set you free
Into the arms of the K.G.B.”

In Secret City
Secret City, yeah
In Secret City
Secret City, yeah

I hear you can’t beat Secret City
The word of mouth gets out
Hold it in, take a number
Keep it quiet, or wash it out
Hand in hand through the central square
Under covers everywhere

In Secret City,
...there’s a soul belonging to me
Secret City, yeah
...there’s a soul belonging to everything
In Secret City,
...there’s a soul, let it go free
Secret City, yeah
...there’s a soul, stronger than anything

(Instrumental solo - piano/synth - Jon Strider)

There’s a world behind your back
Shadows you can’t see
Falling around you
There on Nowhere Street
Every bed is sown with doubt
Every heart an armored car
If somebody’s out there
Show me where the exits are___

Secret City
Secret City, yeah
Secret City
Secret City, yeah

There’s a soul belonging to me
Secret City,
There’s a soul belonging to everything
Secret City, yeah
There’s a soul, let it go free
Secret City,
There’s a soul, stronger than anything
Secret City, yeah

There’s a soul belonging to me
Secret City,
There’s a soul belonging to everything
Secret City, yeah
There’s a soul, let it go free
Secret City,
There’s a soul, stronger than anything

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

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from STRIDER​.​.​.​Steps Out, released January 1, 1990
MUSICIANS
CORKY JAMES: 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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