When my friends came to visit from DC we decided to record this song just for fun. First we laid down the piano, congas, vocals and accordion. Then we overdubbed keyboard bass, hand claps and various toys and then tenor sax.
lyrics
Who am I?
You ask me who am I?
I'm your hand on your belly
Cells dividing in the jelly
I'm the alpha the omega
On a photon all the way from Vega
Who am I?
I ask you who am I?
I'm the birds in the trees
Lookin down at me I'm Columbus on his knees
Crying at the gates of hell
I am all that he can smell
Who am I?
I'm the mountains in the distance
Here in your throat I'm death's insistence
I'm your glassy clouded eyes
Looking through the book of lies
I am you you are me
I'm in prison you are free
credits
from Who Am I?,
track released February 27, 2014
Jonathan Best: piano, vocals, claps, toys, keyboard bass
Keith Perkins: congas, toys and claps
Lee Magnuson: accordion
Paul Ruffner: tenor sax
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