If she had wings
This girl would fly:
Flex those great heavy things
Dense with muscle and bone
Just launch herself right out the window
Of this rusty trailer,
Skim away over the yard
Clogged with cars that have no engines
And dead tires with no place to go.
She’d fly before he gets home
Wrapped in the smells of beer and the girl
Who lives behind the Rosebud Cafe;
Fly before he takes his ugly knife
And slices off her flying feathers
Takes that oily hard fist
And smacks her one to show her who he is
And where she needs to be.
If she had wings
This girl would fly.
But she won’t wait around for them.
She’s got what she needs:
Good strong legs in secondhand jeans
And eager feet in scuffed up boots.
They’ll do just fine.
Behind the Scenes: This piece is part of the cycle that includes "The Woman Who Is Part Horse" and "The Ground She Walks On" -- stories of women reclaiming their power (with a dash of magic thrown in) inspired by my years working in domestic violence services.
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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 Callaghan8 days ago in Beat
Comments (2)
The literary imagination weaves wings for many!
I liked this. Loved the if she had wings she could fly parts.