The Beach Boys Lyrics Thread: post the gauchest lyrics u got

[BananaLouie]

I think the reason Brian still likes it today as one of his favorites because of it being his most personal album.

Agreed!

Doughy lumps, stomach pumps, enemas too, those lyrics always made me cringe! 

[Jay]

It's not actually a Beach Boys lyric, but how about this: "The she eagle is old. Her mate was shot long ago, she is now mated with a son of hers". 

[runnersdialzero]

Roller Skating Child ('so cold I go brrrrr')

I love that line.

[runnersdialzero]

When Girls Get Together again taps into that pouch of chauvanism and creepiness common amongst the vaults material.

Vaults material? It's everywhere in the Beach Boys catalog, released or not.

[The Shift]

"… Her mate was shot long ago, she is now mated with a son of hers". 

That there's redneck talk, sonny…

[SMiLE Brian]

I think the reason Brian still likes it today as one of his favorites because of it being his most personal album.

Agreed!

Doughy lumps, stomach pumps, enemas too, those lyrics always made me cringe! 

Those lyrics are weird and uncatchy, yet work in that song.

[Paulos]

It's not actually a Beach Boys lyric, but how about this: "The she eagle is old. Her mate was shot long ago, she is now mated with a son of hers". 

Yes that lyric is very strange, apparently eagles are into incest. I hate the damn spoken word parts of that song, totally ruins it for me.

[Wild-Honey]

I'll Bet He's Nice: "I bet he show's you quite a ball. Please don't tell me if its true. Cuz I'm still in love with you pretty daughter..."

Hey Little Tomboy

School Girl

Mainly because men in their 30s are singing it. The first one is a bit over the top though!

Pretty "darlin'" (not daughter, ewwww!)

Hey Little Tomboy - retro song...

School Girl (one more semester and we're on our way) similar to Wouldn't It Be Nice!

Wow! It sounds just like daughter to me!

it's darlin' on Bet He's Nice, but what about Deirdre where he's singing to his daughter the line "we'll take a bath"? creep city.

from Salt Lake City... "the way the kids talk so cool is an out-of-sight thing" is pretty bad.

i like the "my gran" line on Girl Don't Tell Me, but Carl kind of botches it when he sings "YOU came up to stay with MY gran" unless he's singing to a family member. quite possible in Beach Boys world i guess.

Are you sure he is saying "my Gran"?   I always thought it was "my friend"?

[Puggal]

Some of my "favorite" Beach Boys lyrics:

Disney Girls - "I'll fill your hands with kisses and a tootsie roll."

Little Honda - "More fun than a barrel of monkeys that two wheel bike."

Tears in the Morning - "So you moved out up to Europe, you took your warmth and you took your soul. Well I hope you do what you're damn sure of, a lonely bed here takes on the cold."

Long Promised Road - "So hard to lift the jeweled scepter when the weight turns a smile to a frown."

[Sound of Free]

One I always hated: "Christmas comes this time each year."

No s--t, Sherlock. In an otherwise very fun Christmas song, this line just sticks out as lame. It would have been so easy for Mike to write something that didn't hammer home the point so obviously like:

"Christmas time is here again." or "How I love this time of year." Same cadence, less lame.

[STE]

"Take it one little inch at a time now
'Til we're feelin' fine now
I guess I've got a way with girls"


I see what it's trying to say but I always "hear it" in another way...


 

[The Heartical Don]

'brrr'.

yes.

definitely 'brrr'.

[Paulos]

"Take it one little inch at a time now
'Til we're feelin' fine now
I guess I've got a way with girls"


I see what it's trying to say but I always "hear it" in another way...


 

I don't think you are the only one Ste!

[Cabinessenceking]

The Adult/Child version of HEY LITTLE TOMBOY

Seriously the spoken lines at the end along with the pedophile giggles Brian, Mike and Al are into turns my blood to ice every time I simply see the title.

It is one of those songs that should not exist. Also God does not exist as if He did exist he would've set lightning to the recording studio.

[Menace Wilson]

"I'm gonna make you a girl."

Make?

This line sounds like something Mike Tyson would say.

[Wild-Honey]

The Adult/Child version of HEY LITTLE TOMBOY

Seriously the spoken lines at the end along with the pedophile giggles Brian, Mike and Al are into turns my blood to ice every time I simply see the title.

It is one of those songs that should not exist. Also God does not exist as if He did exist he would've set lightning to the recording studio.

  Your quote made me laugh. Really?!!   Makes me definitely want to listen to it now.  Then again...

[Shady]

The Adult/Child version of HEY LITTLE TOMBOY

Seriously the spoken lines at the end along with the pedophile giggles Brian, Mike and Al are into turns my blood to ice every time I simply see the title.

It is one of those songs that should not exist. Also God does not exist as if He did exist he would've set lightning to the recording studio.

  Your quote made me laugh. Really?!!   Makes me definitely want to listen to it now.  Then again...

Seriously, don't

[Quzi]

I know it's not that bad, but I cringe every time I hear "cool water is such a gas"... it's not a gas! I don't know if I'm missing some point here, but "cool water, it ain't no gas" or something along those lines would have been a world better than the lyric Mike settled on imo.

[Custom Machine]

"Take it one little inch at a time now
'Til we're feelin' fine now
I guess I've got a way with girls"

I see what it's trying to say but I always "hear it" in another way...

 

I don't think you are the only one Ste!

Yeah, you're hearing it correctly!

[Custom Machine]

I've always thought it says "stay with my friend".  Is this another case of misheard lyrics on my part?

[The Shift]

"Take it one little inch at a time now
'Til we're feelin' fine now
I guess I've got a way with girls"

I see what it's trying to say but I always "hear it" in another way...

 

I don't think you are the only one Ste!

Yeah, you're hearing it correctly!

Love those lines. Pretty bold for the day.

[Custom Machine]

Most everyone agrees that Brian has wonderful compositional skills, maybe equal to Beethoven or Mozart. Had he no lyricist for his music, he would have been one of the greats of our instrumental composers.  Mike had and has a flair for finding the words to make the music "available" for us to sing it as we "wax down the boards" - and on YouTube there is some poor quality footage and Mike is playing some kind of keyboard. I've seen him play sax, about a million years ago.  He handles a great majority of the leads.  Not bad for 70.  

The Wilson-Love combo is no less significant than any other eminent writer-composer duo...

Additionally, Mike keeps the show "moving" and you might think he is corny or goofy, but he knows how to talk to his "contemporaries" who grew up with the music in the 1960's, and he "tells it like it is."

Most don't know that he did the lyrics to Good Vibrations, while on tour, and somehow is able to listen to Brian's music, and, author words to make Brian's work "sing-able" as we go on our merry way!

And, don't get why he is continuosly demonized.

Beach Girl, I've never commented on one of your posts, but I just wanna say that they are some of the most insightful on this board.  Thanks for providing your perspective as a long time fan, as I myself am as well.

[Custom Machine]

i also realize "out of sight" is an expression popular in the 60s. i think the Beach Boys have used the phrase on more songs than any other band. i used to have a mixtape with every example but i probably missed a couple. either way, the line "the way the kids talk so cool is an out-of-sight thing" is clumsy and rather uncool.

Lyrically, that line actually worked in 1965.  Two years later it was uncool.  A year after that it was totally uncool.  Sorta follows the pattern of  the BBs being considered uncool by many American listeners.

[Custom Machine]

... but what about Deirdre where he's singing to his daughter the line "we'll take a bath"? creep city.

Having spoken to Bruce 39 years ago this month after the Hollywood Palladium Beach Boys concert, where he talked about his inspiration for "Dieidre", I can assure you that he was singing about a woman around his age ... and definitely not his daughter.

[Custom Machine]

That section of Got to Know the Woman. c'mon c'mon and do the chicken. could have been filled with something a little less corny. but hey maybe it wasn't corny back in 1970. but i still can't listen to that without feeling a little bit embarrassed. especially with other people. i love the rest, its just that one part.

Sounded great to me back in 1970, and it still does today.  You've gotta understand the backstory to the lyric - Dennis is so overtaken by the woman that he is reduced to silly nonsense when attempting to explain his attraction to her.  Definitely one of my favorite BB songs, on my favorite BB album.