To chant Psyche’s beauty, no words exist
And your loveliness, I have none to sing
For you, language fails and yet, I do cling
Onto all words read aloud, which persist
And which rattle around, they do insist
The air was wet on that summer’s evening
Professed in the dark, once again I ring
With all the lives that could have been, but missed
Nothing but mist, let it lie, let it be
Steal away in the night, until the dawn
Winks, then shows herself all rosy and bright
And says run along, get going, just flee
Pluck up those sweet fruits, dripping, which do spawn
From the still lake of a new day, to bite
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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.
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Congratulations on your honorable mention! 🎉
Wooohooooo congratulations on your honourable mention! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Lovely. I enjoyed the play on "missed" and "mist." Great imagery with the dripping fruit. It's a tough form, but you were able to convey beauty within its structure. Really well done.