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Wouldn't It Be Nice
Earlier Beach Boys songs celebrated adolescent fun and teenage love ; `` Would n't It Be Nice '' subverts this convention in its very first lyric : `` would n't it be nice if we were older '' . In the Endless Harmony documentary , Wilson described the song as `` what children everywhere go through ... would n't it be nice if we were older , or could run away and get married '' . Wilson added in 1996 , `` ' Would n'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 ca n'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 : 
Earlier Beach Boys songs celebrated adolescent fun and teenage love ; `` Would n't It Be Nice '' subverts this convention in its very first lyric : `` would n't it be nice if we were older '' . In the Endless Harmony documentary , Wilson described the song as `` what children everywhere go through ... would n't it be nice if we were older , or could run away and get married '' . Wilson added in 1996 , `` ' Would n'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 ca n'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 :
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. It expresses the frustrations of youth, what you can't have, what you really want and you have to wait for it.''
In the Endless Harmony documentary , Wilson described the song as `` what children everywhere go through ... would n't it be nice if we were older , or could run away and get married '' . It expresses the frustrations of youth , what you ca n't have , what you really want and you have to wait for it . ''