The hell is wrong with you people. I can't stand the second section at all - "God bless America, it's the land where we tour"?!
Carl Wilson sure sang a lot of crap in his career, and late period BB's is a huge part of that. I can excuse some things because Carl sounds cool, but this, I am not strong enough to deal with. It's balls.
Yes. It is horrifically lame. "Ocean lovers....". Holy jumping crap on a flaming f*ckstick, is that embarrassing.
Yes the lyrics are indeed awful - those harmonies at the end give me chills though, and I love how it all culminates in a highly engineered (but quite well done) Brian-replication.