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DON'T CRY BABY​/​DON'T SAY YOU'RE SORRY PART 2 (REPRISE)

from IT SEEMS SO STRANGE [Digitally Remastered] by The Santairs

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This song was hugely inspired by Creedence Clearwater Revival's song called, “Rude Awakening #2.” I always got a kick out of The Beatles, Chicago, CCR, and other hugely popular groups that have recorded and released avant-garde material. As a musician, I find the stuff quite boring. But as a writer and listener, I find avant-garde music extremely interesting. I've been deeply inspired by some of these songs and have written more “mainstream” songs because of them. When I was younger, I'd listen to avant-garde music followed by classical music. It really plays some interesting tricks to the ears.
This song was recorded back in 1987 and was originally just an instrumental. I later wrote lyrics to it and had 3 different versions of this song. This song starts off like a slow structured song and moves heavily into the avant-garde, then flows back into a melody again, and continues back and forth until the end. The original recording was done on a two track stereo system. I took this version from an old cassette tape I had and edited it on the Audacity software, adding more of a flavor to this tune, including on-line drums and overdubbing various percussive instruments. I had a fun time, during the middle and end sections of the song when the avant-garde style picks up, where I used half of the effects Audacity has to offer. It’s similar to what I did on an avant-garde song I helped compose called, “Aporia (Deconstruction of Destruction)” where I used nearly every single effect Audacity had on the older version. I didn’t quite go that far here on the newer version of Audacity, but I did use at least half of them. For this particular version, I used a recording I did myself back in 1987 that was on cassette, and layered drums and effects on it in 2013.
This song was transferred from cassette tape from a Denon DRM-700 3 head cassette deck with silent mechanism onto digital form.

This is song #263.

Recorded at The CELL BLOCK Studio in Auburn, WA.

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DON’T CRY BABY. PLEASE STAY BY MY SIDE.
HOLD ME CLOSE TO YOU. THEN WE’LL SEE WHAT WE CAN DO.
DON’T SAY YOU’RE SORRY ‘CAUSE I LOVE YOU SO.
AND YOU KNOW IT’S TRUE THAT I LONG TO BE WITH YOU.

KISS ME DARLIN’. WHAT MORE SHOULD I SAY?
I FEEL LOVE. ISN’T THAT ENOUGH?
I REALLY CARE FOR YOU, CAN’T YOU UNDERSTAND?
OUR LOVE WILL ALWAYS BE ‘CAUSE YOU MEAN SO MUCH TO ME.

DON’T CRY BABY. DON’T SAY YOU’RE SORRY.
I’LL LIVE AND CARRY ON EVEN THOUGH YOU’RE GONE.

ALL I REALLY WANTED WAS A GIRL LIKE YOU.
IF I CAN’T HAVE YOU, WHAT ELSE CAN I DO?
I PROMISE TO DO ANYTHING FOR YOU.
ONLY IF YOU TELL ME THE SAME TOO.

DON’T CRY BABY; DON’T SAY YOU’RE SORRY!

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from IT SEEMS SO STRANGE [Digitally Remastered], released May 26, 2014
Wayde K. Brown

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The Santairs Auburn, Washington

I am a musician, singer, and songwriter doing this part-time but have been doing it all my life. I started singing before I could talk at the age of one, and wrote my first real song at 15 years of age. (If you count avant-garde as a song, then the age would be 7.) I currently own my own recording studio; and I write, perform, and record my own music (and other's from time to time.) I am Santairs. ... more

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