If I am to die, then let me do so, dagger in hand, twisting the blade between your ribs.
Smiling as the blood rushes through my fingers, watching your face grow cold.
If I am to die, then let me do so completely untethered to this false reality we so quickly call a home.
I feel the struggle in your convulsions as you so desperately cling to life.
Nerve endings and tissue stick to the steel as you clinch me harder while I push you to be free.
If I am to die, then let me burn these boats as we arrive to shore, allowing the flames to consume everything we once loved.
Then and only then can we become death and rise up against the tides of bondage so rooted in our carnality.
The pain, albeit ephemeral, holds no weight to the bliss and ecstasy of this release.
Freeing clipped wings that once transcended the sun now embrace the moon.
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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.
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Oh, this is fierce—a vengeful, poetic blaze of defiance and destruction. The imagery is intoxicating: the dagger, the fire, the struggle, the liberation. It’s Icarus reborn, not as a cautionary tale, but as a force of reckoning.✨