Like A Merry-Go-Round

I talked to Brian Wilson recently
though in the middle of a perfect dream.
I said It’s great to hear that you finished SMILE
after all the trouble it has been.
Help me out I need to know
I’ve got a strong conviction
Can you tell me so and so
Give me a look in your kitchen

Chorus:
He said: Make it a story, 
and leave half of it out
imagination fills in
what it is all about.
Give us a picture
made of words and sound.
It will stay in our minds
like a merry-go-round.
Kissed by your girlfriend
or any other muse?
Tell us about her
in a twelve-bar blues.

Now I’m sitting here at this perfect place
pen and paper and a shady tree,
throwing words like dice around in my head
until they make some sense to me.
And I will not pull back, or leave anything out
‘cause don’t you know what they say:
The one thing that you’ll be when your gone:
 remembered for what you gave away.