Did you know
That there would be a spot on US1 that
No one wants to drive by?
I'll bet you didn't.
I'll bet you didn't know
There would be easily two hundred and
Fifty people or more at our lil ol' Pub
To celebrate your life and your love.
No,
I'll bet you didn't know that.
I'll bet you didn't know
That four months after your transition
There would still be a beer and a chair for you.
I'll bet you didn't know
There would be silent tears
When we come across your tools.
I'll bet you didn't know
That we'd keep them forever.
I'll bet you didn't know
People that love you
And one that didn't get to meet you
Will still buy you a shot and do it with you
and I'll bet you didn't know
That no one would want to park in your
Spot for months after.
I'll bet you didn't know
your face would dance in our minds
Forever
And that your voice would play in our ears
as long as we can hear.
No,
I'll bet you didn't know
That your Facebook would become
a sacred place on social media
Where we look at your photos
Over and over just to see you
Roll your eyes.
I'll bet you didn't know
That your ashes would dance
Into the sky
As people who loved you watched
From above and below.
No,
I'll bet you didn't know that.
I'll bet you didn't know
Of the many hearts that would break
On the day that you died.
How many more times they
Would break in the coming months.
How many tears would fall.
How many lives would shift.
I'll bet you didn't know
The fire that would ignite
With your death
And how it would burn forever
In your absence.
No.
I'll bet you didn't know that.
But you do now.
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Danyell Fairchild
I've been writing since I was in grade school. Poems, small articles, pieces to stories, & found I enjoy sharing. I'm a mother, writer, spiritualist, and local bartender, but always a mother first.
-Love Life. <3
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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 Callaghan7 days ago in Beat
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