Don't you dare give in
a villanelle
Though longing may threaten to pull you in,
t'ward one who is 'completely wrong' for you,
when loneliness grips, don't you dare give in.
Stand tall and think on all that you have been
and all the troubles that you've been put through -
though longing may threaten to pull you in.
Though charm and beauty try to reel you in
(but mind and heart are something you see through),
when loneliness grips, don't you dare give in.
Stalwart and strong and kind and good you've been.
Your strength to overcome has got you through -
though longing may threaten to pull you in.
Many will try to tempt you toward sin,
toward a hell you've already been through,
When loneliness grips, don't you dare give in.
Though life may not reward how great you've been
nor give you gifts for chaos you've been through
Though longing may threaten to pull you in
When loneliness grips, don't you dare give in.
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Heather Scott
Writing, to keep my sanity and make some sense of the world, while keeping watch over my five children as a single parent.
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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 Callaghan5 days ago in Beat
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Well written and highly inspirational. Well done!