Composition
The song was originally credited to both Brian Wilson and his controversial therapist Eugene Landy. However on later issues of Brian's debut album and subsequent re-makes and live performances of the song, the credit was amended to only include Wilson as the sole composer of the song.
The song originally included lyrics to another verse. The lyrics weren't used in the finished version but Wilson did perform the song with the added verse on a televised performance. The extra lyrics as performed by Wilson were:
"I was praying to a god who just doesn't seem to hear,
Oh, the blessings we need the most are what we all fear."
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Famous quotes containing the word composition:
“It is my PRIDE, my damn’d, native, unconquerable Pride, that plunges me into Distraction. You must know that 19-20th of my Composition is Pride. I must either live a Slave, a Servant; to have no Will of my own, no Sentiments of my own which I may freely declare as such;Mor DIE—perplexing alternative!”
—Thomas Chatterton (1752–1770)
“If I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing ... I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Give a scientist a problem and he will probably provide a solution; historians and sociologists, by contrast, can offer only opinions. Ask a dozen chemists the composition of an organic compound such as methane, and within a short time all twelve will have come up with the same solution of CH4. Ask, however, a dozen economists or sociologists to provide policies to reduce unemployment or the level of crime and twelve widely differing opinions are likely to be offered.”
—Derek Gjertsen, British scientist, author. Science and Philosophy: Past and Present, ch. 3, Penguin (1989)