Music and Lyrics
The track consists of an elaborate collection of vocal and instrumental tracks comparable to the group's earlier hit "Good Vibrations". It includes a main melody line played instrumentally without sung lyrics, plus several sections of chorus and a vocal middle section. There are very few lyrics. A lead vocal track can faintly be heard, although no mixes of this version featuring the lead vocal exist. The title phrase is sung several dozen times, sometime alternating with "been away too long". Elsewhere is a simple couplet: "I miss you darlin' / I miss you so hard".
Towards the end of the master outtake, there is a bass riff that had been labeled for years as an edit piece that is part of the "Heroes and Villains" suite—consult the Smile bootleg album, Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 17.
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