The Lullaby That Un-names You
Some songs don’t soothe—they erase.
At midnight, the bell tolled.
She heard the lullaby again—soft, sweet, wrong.
Not from lips, but from the walls.
A child wept beneath her bed, but no child lived there.
Paralyzed, she watched shadows drip from the ceiling, pooling into a shape with no face.
It crawled over her, humming.
Her mouth opened, but no scream came.
Cold fingers dug into her chest—not for blood, but for memory.
Mother. Father. Her own name—gone.
She forgot why she was crying.
Then it smiled, and she understood.
The lullaby wasn't ending.
It was her turn to sing.
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"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan6 days ago in Beat
Comments (3)
Creepy as hell.
Oh my god this is the nope poem... that is terrifying wtf... I admit I'm a horror fan but there's some real psychological stuff going on there. Honestly though, I love this. The working in of an almost fairy-tale structure whilst also being downright terrifying, using the innocence of a 'lullaby' to misdirect the reader and the character and the way in which the narrative doesn't really end - it's all brilliant.
Made me shiver nice one 🌻🌻🌻🌻