someone you loved
a small note about my favorite person
before we started dating
i used to write you letters
about anything and everything i wanted to say
but couldn’t
before we started dating
i watched
as you went from girl to girl
trying to find something to replace what we had
each time it was more and more convincing
until it wasn’t
before we started dating
i tried seeing other people
grew attached to some more than others
maybe it was the way they were different from you
that caused me to call things off so fast
before we started dating
we were just friends
trying to go through life
trying to prove to significant others
that friends was all we were
now that we’re dating
i can say that i’m thankful that we couldn’t convince them
we were more
we always have been
we always will be
it’s been five years since we started dating
everything felt important
because if we messed up
there was no going back to the way things were
we were in too deep
i haven‘t written a letter to you in a while
but i know there’s still so much i want to say to you
more than i could ever possibly say aloud
each day i’m working more on myself
so that i can be more than just someone you loved.
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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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That's the thing with best friends becoming lovers. If things don't work out, we lose both our lover and best friend. Loved your poem!
that's so beautiful. brings back so many memories.