She climbs the spiral staircase, each step
an echo bouncing off lifeless walls.
Up in the cold watchtower, she gazes
out a small window. Her eyes settle on
the fields below—playgrounds
with their swings and slides and spinners.
Pretty, pink-cheeked princesses are
laughing, running, building
sandcastles—kingdoms—with their fathers.
Fathers, they who step into knighthood,
guarding little crowns until they ascend
to mighty queens. She ponders why her own
never wanted to pledge
his allegiance to her fading
crown, why he never cared enough
to push her on a swing,
letting the winds sing, run, dance alongside
her braids. She wonders if once, she too
could have shone beneath her fallen kingdom’s
sun.
About the Creator
'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 Callaghan8 days ago in Beat
Comments (1)
Aww, such a sad story. Longing for a connection everyone has.