Fear is my castle
The place I call home
I furnish it lavish
To keep from feeling alone
A villain sits patient
Each day on my throne
Each different and frightening
In sin they have grown
But this is my castle
The place I must fight
For this is my sanction
My base in the night
Beneath lies a smithy
With swords on the walls
Each night I forge new ones
That help me stand tall
Each blade is made pretty
With metal that's strong
Courage made metal
Conviction my song
And as I face villain
aloft in my hand
The blade I forged pretty
The courage of man
I strike at my foe
And return to my bed
The courage now shattered
New villain found dead
As I dream soundly
New enemies stride in
And though I live scared
I'll forge courage again
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Vicious Avarice
The ramblings of a man obsessed with fate. Poetry, quotes, and inspiration. I am a published author who rides the beast of imagination. A storyteller. Check out my children’s book “The Christmas Monster” on Amazon or wherever books are sold
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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 Callaghan7 days ago in Beat
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I loved this. It lured me in. Well done!