Do they know the real face you keep hidden?
Do they know the real you that lies beneath?
How long will you let them watch you struggle?
How long will you let yourself drown?
Of course they don’t know
And neither do you
The weight of the struggles
The weight of your baggage that you carry
Day after day
Bound to you by the same chains that you wove
Link by link
Adding baggage that you forgot existed
Yet here you are
Pretending to stand tall
Pretending to be happy
Pretending to be okay
Pretending to be strong
Behind your eyes are tears that flow like waterfalls
That you continue to stand beneath
Screaming everything is fine
While the torrent threatens to drown you
But no
You will don your crown
With its barbs and its thorns
And you will let it kill you
Slowly
Painfully
Aggressively
While you go on about it silently
Standing tall beneath its weight
So that no one knows how much
It is truly breaking you inside
While you go on
Pretending to be happy
Because you don't know
What they will do to you
If you are not
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Gunnar Anderson
Author of The Diary of Sarah Jane and The Diary of Sarah Jane: Between the Lines. Has a bachelor's degree in English from Arizona State University and currently resides in Phoenix with his wife and daughter who inspire him daily.
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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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