Chords for Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks talk about SMILE

_ _ [C] I've written with just a number of different [Gb] people.
I collaborate with Mike love mostly and sometimes Carl
I wrote with Van Dyke Parks more than [E] anyone else.
He's my favorite collaborator
Initially we wanted to do [N] an album called smile, but we don't work as much anymore
I wrote lyrics for Brian Wilson most of them when an album was done called pet sounds _ _
Which readied us for the next record which?
_ _ _ Still is an unexplained event.
I don't understand it
It was just after the Beach Boys [F] were in litigation with Capitol [G] Records
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[Dm] Class was raised the fire [Gm] rose the fullness of [C] the wine [Bb] the dim last [F] toast
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We've hard-hearted
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_ _ _ [Ab] _ _ Surf's up
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_ _ [Ab] Come _ _ about hard and join [Eb] the young often spring you came
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day
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Surf's up was the first song that [Eb] Brian and I wrote for the smile album
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And I wasn't close enough to the other guys
I was in a position of defending my lyrics [G] that were went from ding woody [C] pearl hang ten
I mean, I didn't know that [N] language to
_ _ _ Like column nated ruins domino Mike love said to me one day said explain this
Over and over the crow cries uncover the cornfield
_ And it was an American Gothic trip that Brian and I were [B] working on
I [Eb] said, I don't know what these lyrics are all [F] about that important throw them away
And so [Gm] they did when we first began a smile.
I had crazy ideas
I was [Cm] smoking hashish _ _ and we were laying [Gm] on the floor singing from laying on the floor
We put the microphones down on our heads
[Ab] Doing crazy things and we got into a very strange bag _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[G] _ _ _ We
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_ _ [N] Were recording smile and we came across a tape a song called fire
Which I was getting pretty far out by that time
Well, it so happens that a building burned down the same day
We were doing that down the street of the studio that we were doing the fire tapes
I had the musicians wearing fire helmets
I had a guy bring in a bucket with burning [E] wood to smell a smoke in there in the studio.
I mean I was crazy
_ _ I began to think [N] that we started that fire somehow mystically I _ _
Was able to get ahold [Gb] all these drugs and they [Bb] messed me up.
They messed the mind up.
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I took the LSD and that just
[B] Totally tore my head off _
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[Gb] _ _ _ _ _ Acid was like
_ Everything I could [Bb] ever be or [Ab] everything.
I wouldn't be I came to grips with
You just come to grips with [Ab] what you are what you can [E] do and what you can't do and you learn to face it
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[Dbm] _ _ The smile help itself was creating a [Abm] uncomfortable [N] situation.
It just didn't seem proper _ _
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Time can be spent in the studio to the point where you get to get so [E] you get so next to it
You don't know where [Eb] you are with it.
You just decide to [N] check it for a while _ _ _