Wrong Lyrics

[Rick5150]

Is there a definitive source of Beach Boys songs where all of the lyrics are correctly transcribed?

It seems like one person will post what they think they hear and then it is copied all over the internet, even though it is not accurate.  

I was really getting into Time To Get Alone again after reading the 20/20 thread and decided to check out the lyrics. In the chorus, I am clearly hearing "...just be together, alone we'll be together" but all of the transcriptions read "...just be together, we'll only be together". Am I going nuts? Of course, I could be wrong, but to me "Alone we'll be together" makes so much more sense...

It is not as bad as "Isn't It Time" where the lyrics are listed as:

Uh, I wanna take you there
Do you wanna turn back and they just
Remember is the photograph
The world is changed
And yet the game is still the same

rather than

Ooh, I wanna take you there
Do you wanna turn back the pages
Memories and photographs
The world has changed
And yet the game is still the same

I understand that the early car songs may have had words that people were not familiar with, or the Van Dyke Parks lyrics could be misconstrued, but straight-ahead songs often make no sense when you read the lyrics online. Just wondering if there is a place where the "correct" lyrics are posted.

(edited to relocate quotation mark)

[KDS]

Where are those Isn't It Time lyrics posted? 

I'm not 100%, but those might be the lyrics from the single version, which they also performed on the C50 Tour.  Being more familiar with the TWGMTR version, I can't be 100% sure. 

[37!ws]

I seriously doubt any version of the song would have gibberish like "Do you wanna turn back and they just remember is the photograph the world is changed"...makes zero sense.

The single and album versions have almost completely different sets of lyrics that are very obviously not similar.

Speaking of wrong lyrics, apparently the lyrics included in the Smile liner from 2004 have a lot of mistakes. From what I hear, someone showed the CD insert to Probyn and he was beside himself at how wrong they were. "Why didn't they just come to ME? I know the lyrics, I could have helped!"

[Komera]

Ooh, I wanna take you there
Do you wanna turn back the pages
Memories and photographs
The world has changed
And yet the game is still the same

I think that's one of the better mondegreens I've seen in a long time.