For the Sunflower album's 50 Year Golden Anniversary on August 31, 2020 I have made a new video and placed it on YouTube. The video is for the fan favorite song 'All I Wanna Do'. I hope you enjoy my "Video Offering" if you check it out. Let's all raise a glass today for this Beach Boys milestone.

All I Wanna Do:  https://youtu.be/cKPZFb48zko

For what it's worth, I checked the Mike live versions and they dodge this line altogether. So I guess Mike and Bruce don't remember either?

In that live performance I noticed that for this line Mike sings it "Like THE moon and stars shine nightly". It's very hard to hear a  "the" on the record and, according to Custom Machine, "the" is not included on the published sheet music, but I think it's there on the record.

If you you listen to the phrase "lonely every time" repeatedly you'll hear it. It can sound like "lonely in the night"; that's what I thought it was for a while. There is no 'n' sound for night- it's a 't' sound, and if you listen closely enough you will hear the word "time".  I'm now hearing the line as "Whenever it's lonely, every time I've come and given to you".

After listening again I think the first line is "When you get lonely every time I've come". I no longer think it has anything to do with "night".

Hello everybody. I created an account on here just to answer this question, although I've been a lurker for several years.

The lyric in question, which is panned in the left channel of the stereo mix, from what I can tell is this:

"Whenever I get lonely in the night I call yeah. Baby you know."

For that part what I think it's saying is "When you get lonely in the night I come". I think it's "come" not "call".  I think you're combining it with the "All I wanna do" separate vocal part. The overlapping lyrics is one of the reasons it's so hard to hear everything.

I tried to post the lyrics from the Sunflower/Surfs up songbook but I have no clue how to do it... I took a picture but don’t know how to post it!

Is there anything interesting lyrically that's isn't commonly found in the usual lyrics seen on the internet?

There is so much stuff buried in this mix. This is gettin' freakin' weird!

My favorite part about the very end of this song is how the vocal tracks start slightly drifting out of sync with other vocal parts. This only happens at the very tail end of the ending fade.

I feel like this was an intentional creative decision to make it even trippier here, as though molecules are separating. That's my take on it, anyway.

This song deserves an entire disc of alternate versions and different mixes. It's an absolute revelation. Without a doubt Mike's finest hour. Yet I wonder if the song would have more noteriery if Brian or Carl had sang lead vocals.

There are more than a few bands who would say that the song perhaps planted the seeds for other future genres of music such as chillwave or dreampop 15 or 20 years after its release. It's ridiculously overlooked in the public eye, but many nerdy musicians know the impact this song has had. And if not direct impact, at least I would say that Brian (and Stephen Desper) did some incredible stuff on the track, where at minimum, other artists independently arrived at similar creative finish lines years later even if they never heard the song.

I want to see this song picked apart technically and sonically the way the amazing (but also amazingly overplayed) good vibrations has been picked apart.

Well. lately I've been picking apart the lyrics at the end of the song and it's quite a layered onion. At first I thought there were three lines overlapping, but it turns out there are at least four lines that I can hear. They are mixed so low that it is practically an experiment in subliminal listening.

None of the mystery lyrics show up on the sheet music, which ends with the easily heard lines:

All I wanna do, All I wanna do.
Ooh, let these little words of love become the lamps that light your way.
(Group) My love is burning brightly, like moon and stars shine nightly.
All I wanna do, All I wanna do.

Thanks a lot for that information, Custom Machine!  Since I can never find the lyrics anywhere I suspected that was the case, but I very much appreciate you confirming that for me. So that leaves me to my own devices to figure out what these mystery lyrics are. If anyone wants to carefully listen to end of the song, I think it would be interesting to hear any differing interpretations there might be out there.

Didn't we have this exact same conversation in another thread recently? Pretty sure it's "lonely in the night I call your name," followed by some wordless oo-ing.

Yes. I put out out this same request a few weeks ago, buried in a topic celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Sunflower album and I didn't get any useful responses out of that, so I started a separate topic to try and get this mystery sorted out. There are three lines that I'm convinced are each different that go way beyond wordless vocalizing, oohs and aaahs, dit dit diddy wops or anything of that ilk. These three lines don't appear in any transcription of the lyrics that I've yet to find, but they are there. BY the way, I just took the Trump cognitive test, so I know I'm good.

Does anyone out there have the complete lyrics or sheet music for 'All I Wanna Do'? There are three lines at the end of the song (in the last 25 seconds) that I have been trying to decipher and I wonder if they are included in any official transcripts of the song. They are buried so deep in the mix, intertwined with the "All I wanna do" and "My love is burning brightly" lines that it is very difficult to make out these lyrics, but they are there. It seems that none of the lyric websites have any info on these mysterious lyrics and my web searching has not turned up anything either. Many of the lyrics I see include the line "Lonely in the night I feel", but to my ears that line is not even correct. To me it sounds more like "to you lonely in the night I come" and then there is a separate line that goes "real surreal". I've tried EQing out as much as I can to hear these three lines at the end of the song but it is still very difficult to make out. It would be great if these lyrics could be identified and preserved for all Beach Boys fans who love this record. Any help or extra ears is very appreciated as I have reached my wit's end.

8/30/2020 Update:
Although I've gone to great effort in trying to determine what these lyrics are, listening to some lines literally hundreds of times, sometimes one syllable at a time, I will allow that some degree of error could exist. Maybe time will judge how well I have done in my attempt to determine exactly what these 'missing lyrics' are. This is what I've come up with:

All I wanna do
Is always bring good to you

To give you all the love I can
And help you in whatever you do

Sure as the sun will come around again to start off another day
You can be sure that in my heart and soul I'll love you in every way

All I wanna do
Is bring happiness to you

I hope it makes you happy to know
My love's with you wherever you go

Ooh, when I sit and close my eyes
A gentle thought comes in my mind

My love is burnin' brightly
Like the moon and stars shine nightly

{Note:  Lines notated with the a, b, c, and d are sung simultaneously}

a. All I wanna do...All I wanna do
b. All I wanted to do is just send a prayer to the people
c. I want you to warm me all night and know that I'll warm you too

a. All I wanna do...All I wanna do
b. Yes, I wanted to rely on you when ya just send a prayer to the world
c. I want you to rely on our love and know we rely on you
   When you're all rockin'

Ooh, let these little words of love
Become the lamps that light your way

My love is burnin' brightly
Like the moon and stars shine nightly

a. All I wanna do...All I wanna do
b. All I wanted to do is come and give to you
c. Whenever it's lonely every night I've come in faith to you
The feel, the real

a. All I wanna do...All I wanna do
b. My love is burnin' brightly, like the moon and stars shine nightly
c. Now all our love is burning bright, these gifts sent just for you
d. My advocates thoroughly ending pride, I've come in faith to you
The feel, the real

a. All I wanna do...All I wanna do
b. My love is burning brightly, like the moon and stars shine nightly
c. Now all I wanted to do is do it again for you
d. Ne'er forget to the end of time I come in faith to you
The feel, the real

The line Carl sings is "lonely in the night I call your name". He might be mumbling something after that, can't really tell, but it's the same line repeated each time. Easiest to hear right at the end of the fade.

Thanks for listening! It's strange, but to me it sounds a little different each time. i suppose it COULD be the same line three times, but I hear certain consonants that sound otherwise. I've tried different EQing and speeds but it dang hard to hear!

Does anyone have any knowledge of the buried lyrics at the end of 'All I Wanna Do?' if they are printed anywhere? This is what I've got so far but it's realllly hard to hear: "When you get lonely in the night I've come and did it to you. How she gets to me anytime I've come and do it to you. When you  get to me in due time I come and do it to you." I know this all can't be right. Any help  with some good extra ears in unraveling this mystery would be greatly appreciated.

'Lonely in the night I feel' ...  Then there are overlapping counter vocals.

Thanks! I've seen those words online, but that's not what I hear. There's a LOT more there.

Does anyone have any knowledge of the buried lyrics at the end of 'All I Wanna Do?' if they are printed anywhere? This is what I've got so far but it's realllly hard to hear: "When you get lonely in the night I've come and did it to you. How she gets to me anytime I've come and do it to you. When you get to me in due time I come and do it to you." I know this all can't be right. Any help  with some good extra ears in unraveling this mystery would be greatly appreciated.

Very nice! How long does it take to find all the pictures for your videos?

Thanks! It varies quite a bit depending on the video, but there's always a lot of hours spent combing the internet for just the right image with an acceptable quality. This video was fairly easy- there's lots of photos of surfers out there. I did try to stick to photos from the 60s or earlier as much as I could to try to capture the era. Plus this song is pretty short which cuts down on the time making the video.

Summer's here and the time is right for a Beach Boys video about their favorite early career subject: Surfing! I've done many videos featuring the music of The Beach Boys, but I've never done a video for any of their surfing songs so I thought it was high time I did. 'Don't Back Down' was the band's final Surf song of their classic era and one their best. I hope you will check it out, and if you do, I hope you will enjoy it.

Don't Back Down:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZvWpEm7T7w

A little more laughter. I found this pretty funny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O5SsB5JavU

This insanity would be the perfect soundtrack for a David Lynch movie.

Sophia James sang 'In My Room' from her home on this week's American Idol. I didn't love the the changes she made to it, turning it into more of a show tune. I get that she was attempting to inject some more dynamics and drama into  it to make it more up-to-date which might work for a larger audience. At least I appreciate the good taste she showed in her song selection. The young lady has shown she has a charming voice on previous installments.

In My Room  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7ZAxajhCKE

Coming right up, yes.  Two very different ways of engaging with a song!

It's funny, but when making these videos that I do, I invariably develop a much deeper appreciation of the song and the artistry and  intricacies of the record making. You might expect that after listening to a piece of music literally hundreds of times that I'd get sick of it, but that's not what happens with me. You begin to hear the song on a molecular level and it's a different kind of listening experience.

It is what it is

Music to drink bleach by?  (Warning! Don't drink bleach!)

I'm pleased to announce a new video now on YouTube for the beloved classic hit 'When I Grow Up To Be A Man'. I hope you will enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed making it.

When I Grow Up To Be A Man:    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh6m2UC80H0

I see mine is the second 'Today!' based video of the night after aeijtzsche's impressively studious analysis of 'Don't Hurt My Little Sister'. Weird coincidence, but such a wonderful album to celebrate; truly one of their very best I think.

This too shall pass.....like a gallstone.

I just uploaded a new slideshow video that I made for 'The Elements' from Smile. I already made a video for 'The Elements' a few years ago, but I thought I could do it better, so here it is. I hope you'll check it out. This is probably the last Smile video I'll ever make. I'm not sure what comes next.

The Elements-   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSlSy2nfffk&feature=youtu.be

I've just come across your Smile slideshow. A masterwork. Thank you.

I'm happy that you enjoyed the show. Since this video, I have gone on and made 8 non-Smile Beach Boys videos and a remake of Good Vibrations and continue to have a fun time making them.

Please check out my YouTube channel here for the other videos:   https://www.youtube.com/user/clownpenisdotcom

Favorite:  Pet Sounds

Least  favorite: Surfin' Safari

Most underrated: The Beach Boys (1985 album)

Most overrated: Holland