"Our Prayer" is a wordless hymn by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1969 album 20/20 and their never-finished Smile project.
[7] Music journalist Paul Williams wrote, It's a wonderful wordless beginning for a record that for the most part uses words the same way it uses strings and keyboards—for their sounds.
This is in sharp contrast to Pet Sounds where most of the songs have titles and lyrics that evoke specific situations and feelings.
Smile's radicalism begins with and centers around the fact that it is abstract, whereas all previous Beach Boys records and most rock-and-roll songs are concrete in their imagery.
[8]Musicologists John Covach and Graeme M. Boone wrote: "An exquisite exercise of harmonic virtuousity, 'Our Prayer' allowed the Beach Boys once again to show off their vocal abilities and stylistic influences earlier demonstrated on such songs as 'Their Hearts Were Full of Spring'.