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}} "’Til I Die" is a song written by Brian Wilson for The Beach Boys, released on the band's 1971 album ''Surf's Up'' and subsequently chosen as the B-side of the "Long Promised Road" single. With autobiographical lyrics about death and hopelessness, it is one of the few songs in which both the words and music were written solely by Wilson. Biographer Jon Stebbins wrote: "' == Composition == According to Brian in the press material for the ''Surf's Up'' album, the song was inspired after a late night trip to the beach: The song was written over the course of several weeks as Wilson tried to express the feelings he had experienced on that night he had spent alone at the beach. As he explains, "I struggled at the piano, experimenting with rhythms and chord changes, trying to emulate in sound the ocean's shifting tides and moods as well as its sheer enormity. I wanted the music to reflect the loneliness of floating a raft in the middle of the Pacific. I wanted each note to sound as if it was disappearing into the hugeness of the universe.〔 After asking Brian how he came up with the chords, Don Was recalls that "he told me that he was sitting at a piano, creating geometric patterns with his fingers, trying not to move the fingers on the outside of the patterns, but limiting changes to internal movements. When he landed on a shape that both looked cool and sounded good, he wrote it down. So, essentially he created this masterpiece by contorting his fingers into really groovy shapes." However, Was goes on to say "I've absolutely no idea whether this story has any basis in truth or whether he was just making it up on the spot to entertain me." Wilson has stated that the line ''"I'm a cork on the ocean"'' was the first thing lyrically that came to him.〔 In the lyrics, Wilson compares himself to a cork on the ocean, a rock in a landslide, and a leaf on a windy day—seeing himself as a small, helpless object, being moved inconceivable distances by forces beyond his comprehension. ''"How deep is the ocean? How long will the wind blow?"'' The hopeless conclusion is given in the song's title. At one stage, due to the criticism the song had received from the band, Wilson changed the lyrics from "''It kills my soul''" to "''It holds me up''" or "''It fills my soul''" and "''I lost my way''" to "''I found my way''". Ultimately, the rest of the group insisted that the original lyrics be kept as the new lyrics contradicted the lyrics in the verses. Bruce Johnston has praised the song on several occasions by calling it the last great Brian Wilson song〔 as well as describing it as Wilson's "heaviest song."〔 Johnston has also stated that "the words absolutely fit his mindset".〔 Wilson also felt this was the case when he stated that "the song summed up everything I had to say at the time."〔 He later recalled that Mike Love's reaction to the song was: "What a fucking downer." In 2015, Love named the lyrics of "'Til I Die" his favorite of any written solely by Wilson, although he admitted, "I don’t like the line 'it kills my soul' but I understand what he’s saying." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「'Til I Die」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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