Gary Alt

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I originally conceived this song at the piano way back in high school. The lyrical idea was thematically along the lines of Billy Joel's Just the Way You Are, but my words were were impossibly stupid and sappy. Jason liked the basic musical idea, so I brought the song with me for a weekend at the New Jersey shore with Jason and his wife Elaine. Late Saturday night I pulled it out and we wrote the new lyrics together, except that we couldn't come up with the final bridge. After retiring to bed I sat up for a while and came up with words for the bridge, but by morning Jason had also come up with words that were a lot better. So that's what we kept. I don't even remember what I had come up with - it was probably hopeless.
The only lyrical idea we kept from the original song I partially wrote all those years ago was the title. The song is now basically about the army of aging Dead-heads with no hair on top, and gray pony tails in back. The subtle recommendation is to grow up, for Pete's sake.
Electric guitar and lead vocals by Jason, all other instruments and background vocals by me.
Mixed and mastered by me.