Solar System (song)

"Solar System"
"Solar System"
Single by the Beach Boys
from the album The Beach Boys Love You
A-side	"Honkin' Down the Highway"
Released	May 30, 1977
Recorded	October 1976 – January 1977
Length	2:47
Label	Brother
Songwriter(s)	Brian Wilson
Producer(s)	Brian Wilson
The Beach Boys singles chronology

"Solar System" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1977 album The Beach Boys Love You. It was written and sung by Brian Wilson.^[1]^[2] The lyrics discuss the Solar System in a similar vein as the band's 1965 hit "California Girls".^[3] In "Solar System", the narrator asks, "What do the planets mean? / And have you ever seen / sunrise in the mornin'? / It shined when you were born".^[3]

^ "Love You". Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-05-29.
^ Lambert, P. (2007). Inside the Music of Brian Wilson: The Songs, Sounds and Influences of the Beach Boys' Founding Genius. Continuum. p. 312. ISBN 978-0-8264-1877-7.
^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference Carlin was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[allmusic-1] "Love You". Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-05-29.

[lambert-2] Lambert, P. (2007). Inside the Music of Brian Wilson: The Songs, Sounds and Influences of the Beach Boys' Founding Genius. Continuum. p. 312. ISBN 978-0-8264-1877-7.

[Carlin-3] Cite error: The named reference Carlin was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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