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:
“There was not a grain of poetry in the whole composition of Lord Fawn, and poetry was what her very soul craved;Mpoetry, together with houses, champagne, jewels, and admiration.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
“At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
“Since body and soul are radically different from one another and belong to different worlds, the destruction of the body cannot mean the destruction of the soul, any more than a musical composition can be destroyed when the instrument is destroyed.”
—Oscar Cullman. Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead? The Witness of the New Testament, ch. 1, Epworth Press (1958)