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This was just a basic rock and roll tune that I wrote sometime around 1986. It started with the thought that I felt, musically, out of time with everyone else. While everyone in my generation was listening to classic or hard rock, or heavy metal, I was listening to what everyone calls “Oldies” nowadays. I always considered that style of music the best I ever heard or felt, even to this day. I think, lyrically, the words weren’t bad for the first two verses, but the last verse, I kind of ran out of ideas and was just thinking about what it would be like if WWIII happened and we lost everything. In that kind of scenario, we wouldn’t know what music was anymore, and everything that was recorded, whether movies, music, books, etc. would be lost in a full out nuclear war. I didn’t convey that very well in the song, but I didn’t feel like fleshing a basic rock song like this any further. I recorded the bass, rhythm guitar, lead guitar, and lead vocal on a two track recorder on a cassette tape back in 1986. I transferred the recording onto the Audacity sound editor in December of 2013 and recorded another guitar part, double tracked the drums, and added one more rhythm guitar part. The bass had a few mistakes in it from the original recording, but I decided to use this particular recording to add the other instruments, instead of re-recording from scratch, because I liked the idea of having a couple mistakes in a song, which was done many times back in the late 50’s and early 60’s. So I felt it kind of gave it a bit of authenticity. I didn’t care for the lead vocal, but I couldn’t change it very much since it was mixed down onto one track with the guitar parts in 1986. I could have double tracked my vocal, but it would have sounded too different today, with me being 27 years older.
This is song #218.

Recorded at The CELL BLOCK Studio in Auburn, WA.

lyrics

As I Was Thinkin’ Of A Time, A Time Long Ago,
I Wasn’t Even Born, Yet I’m Aware Of The Things Before.
I Live In The Past That Went By So Fast Long Ago.

As I Was Dreamin’ Of Today, I See Faces Ready To Die.
They Think Of Glory And Love While Their Loved Ones Stay And Cry.
I Dream Of A Past That Could Never Last Nor Stay.
(Solo)
As I Was Dyin’ In The Future, The Earth, Old And Gone,
But You Don’t Realize That You’ve Killed Everyone.
I Died In The Past, The Past Of Your Past, Once Before.
(Spoken): Over And Out.

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from IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN TOMORROW (2024 Remaster), released June 2, 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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