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As the song title suggests, I wrote this song when I was 17 years old. Many things happened when I turned that age. It was kind of a coming of age for me at that time and many good and bad things happened, from falling for my first love, to my parents nearly splitting up, to forging friendships that have lasted to this day, and letting go of things I knew weren’t doing me any good. I also went into my first (of only a couple) depressions where I lost so much weight, I was only 146 pounds at the current height I am today as an adult (minus an inch from all the knee surgeries I’ve had.) Like my emotions back then, this song is all over the place, musically and lyrically. It’s a very psychedelic song by nature and one of my first few attempts at such. I didn’t think the recording I did on my two track recorder was very good, but it had some unique things in it that I wanted to use this demo to build on. The one guitar, the lead vocal (with heavy effects) and my dad playing bass were the main feature of the demo. I thanked my dad deeply for learning this song in just a short few minutes before recording it. I remember he walked in the door from work and I had written this crazy tune which has several different beats to it. When it comes to timing, my father is solid as a rock and this song, with every passing line of a verse, purposely speeds up. He had to turn off his internal musical clock and follow what I was doing, which was a new experience for him. In 2014, I decided to finish off this tune the way I saw fit. I added the drums, which took several takes since it changes so much. I added a few backing vocal parts and double tracked my lead vocal in a few places, giving it an odd feel to it, from a 17 year singing lead and a 44 year old man—all the same person. There’s a place towards the end of the song, just before the last verse, where the recording sounded off place. That was part of the original recording I did live as an effect which turned out sounding like a mistake even though it wasn’t. Under today’s circumstances, I could have done something much grander, but hey, I was only…..17.
This is song #144.

Recorded at The CELL BLOCK Studio in Auburn, WA.

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Love Will Stay. Peace Will Stay. Help Will Stay. Time Will Stay.

Life I See From The Pasture Is Dead,
Gives Empty Lectures To My Head.
To Live A Time Of Hate And Pain,
I Feel The Hurt Inside Of My Brain. Oho!

Love Will Stay. Peace Will Stay. Help Will Stay. Time Will Stay.

What Do I Say When I’m Seventeen?
What Kind Of Age Does This Really Mean?
No One Listens. No One Stays.
I Have To Live My Life For One More Day.

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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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