Don’t Back Down

Track 28 on Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys

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Jul. 13, 19641 viewer

Don’t Back Down Lyrics

[Verse 1]
The girls dig the way the guys get all wiped out
With their feet in the air you can hear them shout
They're not afraid (Don't back down, don't back down)
Not my boys (Don't back down, don't back down)
They grit their teeth (a-oo), they don't back down

[Chorus]
Don't back down
You got to be a little nuts
Don't back down
But show them now who's got guts
Don't back down
Don't back down from that wave

[Verse 2]
With their feet full of tar and their hair full of sand
The boys know the surf like the palm of their hand
They're not afraid (Don't back down, don't back down)
Not my boys (Don't back down, don't back down)
They grit their teeth (a-oo), they don't back down

[Chorus]
Don't back down
You got to be a little nuts
Don't back down
But show them now who's got guts
Don't back down
Don't back down from that wave

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[Verse 3]
When a twenty-footer sneaks up like a ton of lead
And the crest comes along and slaps them upside the head
They're not afraid (Don't back down, don't back down)
Not my boys (Don't back down, don't back down)
They grit their teeth (a-oo), they don't back down

[Chorus]
Don't back down
You got to be a little nuts
Don't back down
But show them now who's got guts
Don't back down
Don't back down from that wave

[Outro]
Don't back down

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Genius Annotation

The last of the Beach Boys' songs about surfers, at least until the 80s. Ironically, the title was initially misprinted as “Don’t Break Down” when the album was released in 1964; that same year, Brian Wilson would stop touring with the Beach Boys after a severe panic attack.