The Sunrise Must Set
So, we might as well appreciate it.
The sunrise must set
I can already feel it coming
Contently I sit with myself, not ecstatic
Sullen, but not saturated
Someplace in between ‘can’t wait’
And ‘I never want this night to end’
I remember rushing the prep
Wanting it all to be perfect,
As if perfection would have made joy stay longer.
The happy endings that turned bitter
In the wake of the gathering,
I could only see the mess after everyone left.
The sunset will rise
As the moon chases the sun, or is it the other way around?
Sullen I sit with myself, detoxing from my dopamine cocktail.
The science of it, helps me stay nearer to reality
Someplace closer to gratitude than usual,
And I remember I have more to look forward to.
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Whitney Carman
"...even if what I have written does not make sense to anyone--at least--it has helped me a little...And anything that can be whittled down to fit words--is not all madness."
-Lara Jefferson These are My Sisters
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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 Callaghan8 days ago in Beat
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