I can't quite figure out what it is about this song, but there's something amazing here. The vocal harmonies are so complex and continue to blow me away every time I hear them. The chorus has a bizarre, eerie baroque feel. Even the verse feels strange and creepy. In case it isn't obvious, this was the phase when Brian Wilson was using drugs.
Also, the words. Van Dyke Parks is brilliant and completely mad. Who else could write a line like this:
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I've been in this town so long so long to the city I'm fit with the stuff to ride in the rough and sunny down snuff I'm all right by the heroes and,
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And it fits the music
so well.