careful mixes. When Brian came in, he'd say, 'Let's mix this,' and after one pass, like five minutes later, he'd say, 'That's good!' Or maybe he'd say, 'More bass! More vocal!' But that was it." Over the next month, Wilson set to work on another album, Adult/Child, that was completed but left unreleased. Themes The first side of the album consists of uptempo songs, with the other side contains song that reflect a more adult perspective. The lyrical content ranged from Wilson's stream-of-conscious (such as on "Solar System") to adolescent concerns (such as "roller skating", schoolmate infatuations, and fraternizing with the family of one's girlfriend). Wilson went in this direction because he believed that these were the type of lyrics that fans had wanted from the Beach Boys. Relative to 15 Big Ones, Wilson stated that he wanted Love You to be "more creative, more original" and "lyrically much more interesting." His 2016 memoir, I Am Brian Wilson, compared the lyrical approach to Pet Sounds. "I wrote some songs that were about how I felt in my thirties, the same way that Pet Sounds was about how I felt in my twenties." Mankey surmised, "Brian Wilson lyrics maybe weren't as familiar to the public as [his past co-written lyrics] were, and so The Beach Boys Love You songs might have seemed odder because no one knew what Brian was really like." Carlin characterizes the total effect as having reframed the themes of past Beach Boys hits through Wilson's "warped" adult perspective, as well as "a tour through the cracked fun-house mirror of [his] imagination". Dillon acknowledged that, given the age of the band members, the fact that they "sing these teenage ditties made the tunes a little creepy". Stebbins felt that the album "revealed more than the listener wanted to know", containing songs with "unsettling, pedophilic overtone[s]" such as "Roller Skating Child" and "I Wanna Pick You Up". According to biographer Timothy White, it was a "portrait of a man trying to redefine his shattered personality." Songs Side one "Let Us Go On This Way" is a rock song in which the narrator, a young man, expresses to his object of affection, "To get you babe, I went through the ringer / ain't gonna let you slip through my finger", followed by a plea for God to "let us go on this way". Wilson said he wrote the song with