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Who Is This Guy?

from Playin' On My Team by Jay Spears

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"Who Is This Guy?" might be "I Like Mike" redux: Melancholy morning-after musings, similar strumming as on "Mike", but in a minor key and joined by an unsettled, unsettling fiddling (by Darius Campo) are as beautiful in performance as those inescapable next day questions are unwelcome. It reminds me of the Ringo-featured Beatles song "Don't Let Me Down" if it had transmuted into something unassailably sincere and honest. -- Bill Stella, Highest Common Denominator

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WHO IS THIS GUY? © 2005 Jay Spears Music ASCAP

Thunder rumbles through the sky, who is this guy? Who is this guy?
Easy grin, guileless eye, who is this guy? Who is this guy?
My cool's down the drain. Severed my tongue from my brain.

This is scarin' me to death, who is this guy? Who is this guy?
Skin like butterscotch and breath like apple pie. Who is this guy?
Hard to believe. Can he see the heart on my sleeve?

I feel a little queasy and I don't know why. Who is this guy?
'Scuse me while I kiss this guy. Who is this guy? Who is this guy?

Ask the right question if you know how.
What's going through my heart right now?

Ask the right question if I know how.
What's going through my heart right now?

Take a fearless stride into a blind abyss, and trust this guy will
Be a peerless guide to find the kind of bliss I hope to find.
Walks on thin ice never before felt so nice.

Drench my dormant desert with unbidden seed, and with a sigh,
Quench me with a shot I thought I didn't need. Who is this guy?

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from Playin' On My Team, released September 12, 2006
Violin composed and played by Darius Campo
Drums: Doug Smith
Words & music; guitar, bass, & vocals: Jay Spears

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Jay Spears Los Angeles, California

Native L.A. singer-songwriter Jay Spears' debut CD "BOY HOWDY" features humorous, boy-meets-boy pop tunes with titles like I LIKE MIKE and CRYIN' OVER BRIAN.
Jay's sophomore CD "PLAYIN ON MY TEAM" includes the full-choir gospel rocker, SMAK DEM CHRISTIANS DOWN, the video for which has over 80,000 views on youtube.
Now here comes his third CD: We Are All Born Lucky. ... more

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