Mike Love when they found that the rest of the album sounded too "deadpan and we needed something uptempo". "Roller Skating Child" elaborates on the themes of the previous track except, as Carlin writes, "with a grown-up perspective that made it sound like a kind of musical interpretation of Vladimir Nabokov's novel Lolita, complete with vivid descriptions of adolescent sexuality... careless parenting [and] lust-fueled escape"." Wilson said the song was a tribute to his daughters Carnie and Wendy. "Carnie actually goes ice-skating but I called it 'Roller skating child, with a ribbon in her hair.' We all go out to a skating rink in Santa Monica." "Mona" is a 1950s-style love song with only four chords. The lyrics discuss some of Wilson's favorite songs by Phil Spector, including his 1963 productions of the Crystals' "Da Doo Ron Ron" and the Ronettes' "Be My Baby". "Johnny Carson" similarly expresses admiration for the host of the late-night television talk show, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Carlin refers to the track as the album's "pivot point", one that "separates the normal from the freakishly bizarre." Asked about the song in a 1979 interview, Carson answered, "Sure I heard it. Someone sent it over to the office. I don't think it was a big seller. I think they just did it for the fun of it. It was not a work of art." "Good Time" is a song about a man who declares of his various girlfriends, "Maybe it won't last but what do we care / My baby and I just want a good time". It was first tracked by the band on January 7, 1970 at their since-dismantled private studio – predating the Love You sessions by seven years – and had already been released, albeit with different vocals, as the second single by American Spring from their debut album, Spring (1972). Wilson explained that he recycled the song for Love You because Spring had sold poorly, and he thought, "Maybe the exposure to that song to people might be good. Why waste a song?" Since the recording of "Good Time", Wilson's voice had deteriorated significantly, making it the only track on Love You in which his singing is not coarse. "Honkin' Down the Highway" is a rock and roll song about a man driving to a woman, at her father's behest, for an engagement that the narrator states will conclude