SMILEY SMILE #2
SMILEY SMILE #2
INTRO
OUR PRAYER
HEROES & VILLAINS
GOOD VIBRATIONS (INSTRUMENTAL)
ELEMENTS
COOL, COOL WATER
WIND CHIMES
ROLL PLYMOUTH ROCK
FALL BREAKS AND BACK TO WINTER
CABINESSENCE
FIRE (MRS. O’LEARY COW)
HUMANKIND
WITH ME TONIGHT
WONDERFUL
LET’S GO AWAY FOR AWHILE
OUTRO
GOOD VIBRATIONS (COMMERCIAL SINGLE)
YOU’RE WELCOME
I spent 20 years working on this. It was completed before Brian Wilson’s SMILE as well as years after the original SMILEY SMILE My interpretation is my own and I have taken various sources to compose this. I did discover that there are a number of SMILE albums. A number of them vary considerably. This is mine.
There are two levels with this album. They are Macro and Micro and the lyrics are often metaphors.
So, here is the following:
An androgynous youngster is riding up in the clouds with his shiny bicycle. He can ride through both time and space. As he looks down he sees the earth moving away from the early years of humans.
He hears a wordless, acapella welcoming him from the other side. He is ambivalent, but he is still hopeful.
As he passes a border town that he once lived, he sees a town that is dying. He remembers his girl friend who was Native American and Latina. She was killed in the bar and now years later a dancer tries to keep the town alive with drinks and old patrons who are drunk. This is the cantina. A near nude dancer is a familiar role for females.
What are dying are the little town, the countryside, and the city. He has seen it all.
The music of good vibrations is about interactional mysticism and chemical invisible messages not seen by the naked eye, but felt at another level of consciousness. The feeling comes from neuro-transmitters. It is a synthetic intermixture. Its iterations building and swirling to the hilltop
The elements of our existence contain cool water that looks clean, but may be harmful. Sitting on the porch of a cabin, one can hear wind chimes. The rustle and tingle are caused by the wind coming off the lake.
Roll Plymouth Rock deals with the virgin earth and the beginning of the American Indian church that is destroyed by the settlers. This is the trail of tears. Fall Breaks and Back to winter deals with the seasons and cabin essence. The second term means the inward path to a warm spot in one’s cerebral cortex. Fire means the destruction and repair of the human condition.
We now enter the interaction in and among humans. The virgin girl is also the planet. Both reach for the clearing of the ozone layer. It was partially destroyed by mindless, godless carbon technology.
The good vibrations are still happening, but it is still a long trail to go home. Good-bye from the back of one’s mind.
Prof, Joel Charles Snell
Behavioral Methodologies