"Magic Transistor Radio" — from The Beach Boys Love You (1977). Brian Wilson's most personal mythological object.
He sat up in his open window
Looking quietly down at the path
A firefly flew in his room and flew right out again
Down jumped the prince
And he went again to find his radio
(Magic transistor radio)
(Glowing magic transistor radio)
(Glowing magic transistor radio)
As he made his way he could hear something once again
(Glowing magic transistor radio)
There was that transistor up on the same tree
Then from inside of it came a strange voice
Знаете ли вы, что...
- From The Beach Boys Love You (1977). The transistor radio — the small device that brought music into Brian Wilson's private world as a child — appears here as a magical talisman. Music as the original miracle.