It often feels like yesterday,
Yet today; it has felt like an eternity, since you were by my side.
I tried to speak your name again recently…
It still makes my throat get tight.
Beaten back down by tonsils and tongue, until I feel your name making knots where butterflies still inconveniently reside.
I tried to rest and slumber to get you off my mind,
But you showed up in my dream, you were smiling as your fingers interlocked with mine.
A tragedy struck again the moment I woke,
The brutality of my unconscious mind teasing a future I once dreamed of; a future now revoked.
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Tommy Ballard
I'm a professional writer, a poet, a digital artist and an amateur musician. In my free time, I'm often be found pondering magnets, breaking and entering random homes to steal locks of human hair, and dosing snoring sleepyheads with Zyns
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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
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You have captured these feeling with great images very well. 👏 It sure is a recognition one does not want to wake up to!
This is beautiful. Absolutely feel the love behind it.
Gosh this hit me so hard because I've experienced this before. Sending you lots of love and hugs ❤️
Such an intense visual. I have felt this exact thing. Great work