<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Problems playing this file? See media help . </Td> </Tr> <P> "Love and Mercy", according to Wilson, was written as "a personal message from me to people...because there's no guarantee of somebody waking up in the morning with any love ." "Walkin' the Line" was co-written with Nick Laird - Clowes of dream pop band the Dream Academy . "Let it Shine" was co-written with Jeff Lynne of symphonic rock group Electric Light Orchestra, another devout Wilson fan who had just finished producing George Harrison's album Cloud Nine (1987). In 2015, Lynne intimated: </P> <P> I hadn't known him at all, but Brian asked me if I wanted to write a song and produce it with him . "Yes, please--I'd love to ." I went to his house in Malibu and wrote it with him right by the seashore; his place was only a couple steps from the sea . Him playing piano and me strumming guitar and we came up with the song,' Let It Shine'...Anyway, we got to the session and I played lots of the instruments: bass and rhythm guitar and keyboard, and he did some keyboard, and we co-produced . Despite our production backgrounds, there wasn't a lot on it actually . It's a nice tight - sounding record . </P> <P> Certain portions and ideas of Brian Wilson harken back to Wilson's earlier work with the Beach Boys . The song "Baby Let Your Hair Grow Long" is a spiritual sequel to "Caroline, No", as Wilson explained: "It is, of course, a sexual song, a song about sexual ideas . At first, when I wrote the melody, I thought maybe it should be a love song...Most of the lyrics were romantic, but then I put in a couple of sexual lines . And then I said,' Wait a minute . Let's get rid of some of the love aspects, the romantic aspects of this song, and put in more sexual lyrics'...It's like when girls whack their hair off short, and they don't give a shit . Sometimes, if you prompt a girl, prompt someone to hit the road and get on the stick and let your hair grow long and try harder...(Hair) exemplifies beauty in a girl ." </P>

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