i want the kind
of love
that keeps you up
in the night -
not the one
that puts you to sleep
so you can dream.
i want the kind
of love
that starts a fire
that burns in you
until you get burned -
not the one
that warms you
like morning brew
never scalding your tongue.
i want the kind
of passion
that will die
in a beautiful mess
of tears and gun powder
and smeared lipstick
and spilled whiskey
and the shards of glass
and my heart
on the ground.
i want everything
that consumes me
so i do not have
to be
any longer.
About the Creator
Sara
Don’t look for love.
Be love.
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'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 Callaghan8 days ago in Beat
Comments (4)
This is great, I love how you demonstrate both possibilities for yourself, and the choices you make.
I echo Brenton's thoughts. You've outdid yourself again. This is like some strange passionate mutually assured destruction description. So evocative and that image, damn! Well bloody done, Sara!
That was some fantastic writing! I enjoyed it immensely.
I don't know who picks the Top Stories but this has to be a contender. This is so brilliantly sad and invigorating, I can feel the passionate destruction