Looking on a thousand faces,
Snow flurries carry their thoughts,
And the eyes, each frantic and weary,
Scream a desperation,
"Help me" they ask
"Help me understand"
"Help me fathom why it's this way"
And the trains yells her departure,
And the thousand faces step aboard,
And the outsider, the witness, his heart breaks,
His hands want to hold each face to remind them
"Everything will be okay. Do not worry. All is taken care of"
But he knows he can't,
They must carry on their journey,
And in trusting their stories,
A blessing is cast to the wind,
The snow flurry messengers on duty,
Each sending a thought of hope,
And some melt on the foreheads of strangers,
And stream down their cheeks,
And the outsider faces the sky, closing his eyes,
Letting snow be delivered upon his face.
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John Anthony
Began writing out of a strange impulse while working as a cashier. Inspired at first by lyrics then spread my spotlight to include anything profound and human.
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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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