These things I'll be

I absolutely adore the Beach Boys. They are just wonderful. There's nothing like vocal harmony perfection. This song is probably my favourite song from them. I feel like the early 70's catalogue doesn't get the recognition it deserves.

Rocksucker blog said it best when describing this song. Here's a quote from their blog about the song.
"'Till I Die" is on the very top rung of Brian songs, an awe-inspiring snapshot of still life on Earth, frozen in time ("I'm a rock in a landslide / Rolling over the mountainside / How deep is the valley?) - in fact, how this song is not more broadly known is a damning indictment on our planet. This is the kind of song around which everything melts away while it's playing, the kind of song that takes all of the beauty, pain, mystery and love in the world and bottles it all up as an offering to a higher plain on behalf of all humankind, a blown-minded response to the crazy world around us and very conceivably the music you might feel inside yourself if you were isolated on an island, looking out to sea as the sky turns orange and leaves dance past you in a caressing breeze...