Can't Wait Too Long

"Can't Wait Too Long" is an unfinished song written by Brian Wilson for the American popular music group The Beach Boys. Dating from 1967-68, it consists of an elaborate collection of vocal and instrumental tracks comparable to the group's earlier hit "Good Vibrations". It includes a main melody line played instrumentally without sung lyrics, plus several sections of chorus and a vocal middle section. There are very few lyrics. A lead vocal track can faintly be heard, although no mixes of this version =featuring the lead vocal exist.

The title phrase is sung several dozen times, sometime alternating with "been away too long". Elsewhere is a simple couplet: "I miss you darlin' / I miss you so hard"." It was eventually released in its unfinished form as a bonus track on reissues of the album "Wild Honey" and later, in a shorter form, on the 5-disc anthology called "". On that mix, we hear Brian instructing brother Carl on some other lyrics that were never recorded.

Towards the end of the master outtake, there is a bass riff that had been labeled for years as an edit piece that is part of the Heroes And Villians suite. Consult the smile bootleg Unsurpassed Masters Vol. 7.

An excerpt of "Can't Wait Too Long" appears on the Brian Wilson album 'That Lucky Old Sun' to be released on Capitol Records, the Beach Boys' old record label, on 2 September 2008.