The trees I loved when I was small
still stand though time reclaimed it all.
Their bark is cracked, their branches thin,
but memory still lives within.
They watched me fall, they watched me flee,
yet never stopped believing me.
They taught me truth through every ring:
that loss still grows, and growth still clings.
God carves His stories in our grain,
not in our ease, but through our pain.
And when I lay beneath their arms,
I felt forgiven by their charms.
The roots remembered not the fall,
but how I stood through it at all.
About the Creator
'20/20'
"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
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This is so beautifully written, tender and wise. I love how you captured the idea of growth and forgiveness through the trees.