The Beach Boys Songs - In My Room Lyrics

The Beach Boys - In My Room

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Album: Surfer Girl
Released: 1963

In My Room Lyrics

There's a world where I can go
And tell my secrets to
In My Room
In my room

In this world I lock out
All my worries and my fears
In my room
In my room

Do my dreaming and my scheming lie awake and pray
Do my crying and my sighing laugh at yesterday

Now it's dark and I'm alone
But I won't be afraid
In my room
In my room

Writer/s: THORPE, BILLY
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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In My Room

This is written from the perspective of a teenager who feels safe and comfortable in his bedroom. Brian Wilson suffered from severe agoraphobia, and refused to leave his bedroom for a significant amount of time. He wrote this song to give people and idea of how he felt.

Brian Wilson explained in 1990: "When Dennis, Carl and I lived in Hawthorne as kids, we all slept in the same room. One night I sang the song 'Ivory Tower' to them and they liked it. Then a couple of weeks later, I proceeded to teach them both how to sing the harmony parts to it. It took them a little while, but they finally learned it. We then sang this song night after night. It brought peace to us. When we recorded 'In My Room,' there was just Dennis, Carl and me on the first verse... and we sounded just like we did in our bedroom all those nights. This story has more meaning than ever since Dennis' death."

Charles Manson, who was convicted of orchestrating the murders of six people in 1969, made repeated claims that The Beach Boys stole this song from him. In Manson's view, he wrote a song called "In My Cell" which was about how he feels peace with himself in his jail cell. Manson did have a connection to The Beach Boys - he knew their drummer Dennis Wilson - and did write and record some songs. His claims have little basis in fact - something that is true of most of his proclamations.

Linda Ronstadt and Tammy Wynette both covered this song.

Bill Medley from The Righteous Brothers recorded this with Phil Everly and Brian Wilson for his album Damn Near Righteous, his first new album since the untimely 2003 death of his partner Bobby Hatfield. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France)

Interesting food for thought: Brian Wilson just might have inadvertently inspired one of the greatest Jazz fusion bands, Blood Sweat & Tears, albeit indirectly. Al Kooper relates in Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards that he was sitting in Brian Wilson's living room while he showed off the Pet Sounds album. He was just leaving The Blues Project and wandering around California in an existential haze wondering what to do next, when while visiting with Brian Wilson, "Deep in the back of my mind was a band that could put dents in your shirt if you got within fifteen rows of the stage..." He explains his idea of having a band with a horn section in it, more than R&B bands but less than Count Basie's or Buddy Rich's. "Somewhere in the middle was a mixture of soul, jazz, and rock that was my little fantasy."

This was released as the B-side of "Be True To Your School."