Most days, I'm good. Healed. Safe. Fine,
but the memories I've buried aren't that deep,
not enough that scrolling to a personal PSA can't dig them up
so all of a sudden I'm back in that passenger's seat.
You screaming. Eyes off the road. Speeding. Reckless.
Angry at me for setting a boundary,
insisting it violates your own.
They called it abuse, the speeding out of anger.
You called it abuse, me not silently accepting the lies I could prove.
I refuse to tell anything but the truth these days, refuse to let anything else linger.
That moment, a turning point. A new beginning. A catalyst of honesty I wasn't ready for.
I'm ready for it now.
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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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It made me feel young and excitable, like being 7 again on Christmas Eve.
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So poignant and real. I love how it ends with the start of acceptance and healing. ♥️
The way you capture that sudden snap-back into a memory, I really feel it with you.