Why write me so close to the edge?
What theme are you exploring with my life?
Again and again your characters meet this fate
Erase their adjectives: father, son, friend, whole
Rewrite their definitions
Until they are defined by nothing
I cannot understand this leaving
Even as so many leave us
So I inflict my thoughts on you
Sharpen plot points until they impale
Tell myself the story is going where it wants
Absolve myself of your fate
By pretending it’s fate
Just a priest taking your own confession
How many Hail Marys
For the mortal sins meted out
On your poor poppets
Stitched with faded ink?
There are those in your story who live
There are those in my story I’ve lost
Both of us at the mercy
Of other’s choices
About the Creator
Sean A.
A happy guy that tends to write a little cynically. Just my way of dealing with the world outside my joyous little bubble.
'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
Comments (5)
Thse last lines land like a left and right hook 👍
This has a beautifully captured sadness and sharpness to it. Very well written, Shaun. Always in awe of your incredible talent.
Wow, this piece really digs deep! It’s like you’re wrestling with the idea of fate and choices—both in stories and real life. Such a cool way to explore how we shape and lose characters. Definitely leaves you thinking!✨
It is a sad thing that some people come to stay and others to leave, perhaps to show us something in a certain season. Really felt these lines.
This is brilliant.