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To Be Young & On Downers

from Recollection: 2010​-​2020 by Devin Tait

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Maybe my favorite song to perform live, I wrote this shortly after the release of my first album and started performing it with the Traitors. It’s one of my favorite songs I’ve written so I wanted to spruce it up a bit and give it some new life. When we initially recorded this for “Mixed Signals,” Brandon recorded me playing an acoustic grand piano, up in a loft in the historic Broadway building at Hollywood & Vine. Unfortunately, it didn’t really fit in the mix and we cut it, but I was able to rescue it for the intro on this new version mixed by Little Pioneer. Brandon also recorded new guitar and bass. I’m very happy with it now, and there is still a bit of Jarod and Liana in the “heys!”

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what a waste, what a waste
what a beautiful waste
it’s such a shame, such a shame
such a dirty shame
if you can’t feel this
then you’re doing in it wrong
and if you can’t feel this
why are you tagging along?

pop those pills, light another joint
have a laugh at someone else’s expense
but when I roll my eyes at your Phi-Phi read
i can see you getting on the defense
when we all go out and you can’t keep up
shades down and slumped in a stall
to hear you tell the tales next day
you’d think you were the belle of the ball

beauty is as beauty does
moss grows on a rolling stone
even sugar daddies sour
after all the green that they’ve loaned
this town’s not big enough for all your mistakes
it’s a smaller world than you think
and if you don’t stop stealing sips of my Stoli
I’ma have to raise a stink

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from Recollection: 2010​-​2020, released August 28, 2020
Written by Devin Tait. Mixed by Little Pioneer. Guitar and Bass by Brandon Strecker. Additional vocals by Liana Hernandez and Jarod Millsap.

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Devin Tait Sacramento, California

Having transplanted himself from Kansas to California around the turn of the millennium, Devin Tait quickly found himself derailed from his original plan to join a boyband. Meeting a couple of guitar playing lesbians at karaoke led Tait to form the band Shitting Glitter with Amy Crosby and Von Edwards. After nearly a decade with the band, Tait decided it was time to branch out on his own. ... more

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