Just Another “What If…”
Don't answer any of my questions, just imagine...
I can only imagine,
the distance I would've traveled,
if I had ran at first thought—
Why am I still here?...
showing up
showing my face‐
Why haven't I ran away?...
to elsewhere
to anywhere but this place‐
Why don't I just drop everything and turn face?
What, or who, is stopping me?
keeping me here,
on this earth on which I disbelieve in any kind of relief...
saving me from throwing myself away,
into the form of past tense from which one does not return...
This cloud of witnesses that surrounds me,
I am certain does not know the purpose they are unconsciously accomplishing...
and I'm sure they are unaware of just how close I've come to not coming back‐
Why am I still here?...
showing up
showing my face‐
Why haven't I ran away?...
to elsewhere
to anywhere but this place‐
Don't answer any of my questions...
just imagine,
the ground that would've been covered,
if I had just ran at first thought—
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Josh Morgan
Personally, writing began as a creative outlet, to be a means of processing and venting emotion, but it has become so much more. Something I want not to be just relatable, enjoyable and a good read, but to reach someone who is in need.
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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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