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    Don’t Worry Baby - The Beach Boys

    I worry a lot. Like, a lot a lot. Big things, small things. Anything. I’ve learned how to tame it a bit over the years, with everything from therapy to meditation to spirituality to the occasional random cigarette, but it will always be a part of me. It seems, unfortunately, to be part of the way I’m built.

    Brian Wilson worried a lot, too. Way more than you or me, most likely. After all, he did have a complete mental breakdown for several years (many years after he wrote this song - and heavily drug-induced - but still). So there’s this part of me that thinks he basically wrote this song for himself. Within the song itself he puts the words and all their soothing strength in the mouth of a girl, for the purpose of the narrative, but it’s not too hard to imagine that he is, essentially, singing to himself. Telling himself not to worry so much, not to be so damn hard on himself all the time. To give himself a break, some peace. Which makes a world of sense to me.

    And so sometimes I sing this song to myself, too.

     
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      such a feel good song
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      I want to cry.
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