<P> Tony Asher credits the song's idea to Brian Wilson: "The innocence of the situation--being too young to get married--seemed to be immensely appealing to him ." Wilson composed the music, while the lyrics were written almost entirely by Asher over the course of one or two days . Mike Love's contribution was the ending couplet "Good night oh baby / sleep tight oh baby". </P> <P> Love's contributions are disputed by some . He has claimed that he revised or added other lyrics beyond the ending tag, while Asher asserted it was not possible due to Love's absence during songwriting sessions . Since he was touring with the group in Japan while the Pet Sounds album was being composed, Love's attorney proposed that it may have been possible that Brian consulted Love by telephone during occasional bathroom breaks . Asher, believing the argument was "so absurd", responded with incredulity . Love did not receive an official co-writing credit on the song until after 1994 . </P> <P> Earlier Beach Boys songs celebrated adolescent fun and teenage love; "Wouldn't It Be Nice" subverts this convention in its very first lyric: "wouldn't it be nice if we were older". In the Endless Harmony documentary, Wilson described the song as "what children everywhere go through...wouldn't it be nice if we were older, or could run away and get married". Wilson added in 1996, "' Wouldn't It Be Nice' was not a real long song, but it's a very' up' song . It expresses the frustrations of youth, what you can't have, what you really want and you have to wait for it ." The song expresses "the need to have the freedom to live with somebody," according to Brian . "The idea is, the more we talk about it, the more we want it, but let's talk about it anyway . Let's talk it over, let's talk about what we might have if we really got down to it ." Asher has said that Wilson was "constantly looking for topics that kids could relate to . Even though he was dealing in the most advanced score - charts and arrangements, he was still incredibly conscious of this commercial thing . This absolute need to relate ." Music journalist Nick Kent responds: </P> <P> To this effect, "Wouldn't It Be Nice", the song that would lead off their finished creation, was little more than a sophisticated lay - off on the old "We're too young to get married" teen angst dialogue that Wilson had already zeroed in on in "We'll Run Away", the song he'd written a year or so back with Gary Usher, not to mention his plaintively fulsome reinterpretation of the Four Teens' vintage heartbreaker "I'm So Young". But this time Brian Wilson was out to eclipse these previous sonic soap operas, to transform the subject's sappy sentiments with a God - like grace so that the song would become a veritable pocket symphony: two minutes of limpid harps imitating a teenage heartstrings in a tug of love, growling horns, joyous little bells, cascading strings, harmonies so complex they seemed to have more in common with a Catholic Mass than any cocktail lounge acappella doo - wop--in short, a fantasy island of the most exquisite musical longing imaginable . </P>

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