Tim Buckley - Song to the Siren
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- (Monkees TV Show 1968)
Long afloat on shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
'Til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving to your isle
And you sang
Sail to me, sail to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am, here I am
Waiting to hold you
Did I dream you dreamed about me ?
Were you hare when I was fox ?
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks
For you sing
'Touch me not, touch me not
Come back tomorrow
Oh my heart, oh my heart
Shies from the sorrow'
I am puzzled as the oyster
I am troubled as the tide
Should I stand amid your breakers ?
Or should I lie with death my bride ?
Hear me sing
'Swim to me, swim to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am, here I am
Waiting to hold you' - Hudba
"Did I dream you dreamed about me?"
I think that's one of the most deeply emotional lines ever written.
Tim didn’t write that line or the song. Larry Beckett did.
@@4Naturalgreen I don't think that is being questioned in any way
@@erniesings6855 it’s Tim Buckley performing the song here, not Jeff Buckley
@@thaumaston7 It's brain damage responding to my comment, not schliesmann
Messiah - Temple of Dreams (1992) That's were I first heard that line.
Robert Plant described this song as the most beautiful ever written
oh I'm so agree with him !
Not surprising this guy made Jeff Buckley. Don't think there's ever been a more talented father-son pair in music.
he didn’t make jeff buckley he had sex with his mother and then left. They’re not a pair. They’re separate people with basically no connection. Jeff Buckley hated that people made this connection between him and his biological father. To think of them in that pairing is to misunderstand the being that was Jeff Buckley.
@@Ssv714 While you're not wrong, it's beside the point.
There are very few father-son pairings with similar traits.
I happily stand corrected, kindly provide similarly gifted pairings, apart from the Austrian Strauss family.
@@Athena621
Eddie Levert (O'Jays) and Gerald Levert.❤ Bob Marley and Ziggy Marley and at least 10 more of his children and now grandchildren 😊
@@Ssv714 do you know what MADE means? Jeff inherited the talent from his dad, it was in his DNA
This song is a testament to what four chords and a beautiful melody can create.
“The only thing I stole from my father was a fleeting glimpse.”, Jeff Buckley.
Dude, second time I shed a tear today... Jeff's fault this time, I guess.
My 2-year old child has stolen way more things from her father than Jeff ever did from his.
Tim was genius, so sad drugs took him ,he'd have created so many more intensely beautiful songs like this.
Jeff must have missed his dad .so so so sad ,the world lost 2 amazing guys.
@@alvinjensen3303 fear and be sad not, they're never gone for long.
"You pick up where you left off, its always a going forwards, never a going backwards."
Avatar Meher Baba
Love Personified
💖🙏🌻
@@alvinjensen3303 I'm pretty sure Jeff has a documented disdain for Tim
Agony.
This is still the most stunningly unadorned and beautiful version of his song. Mortal Coil's cover was a more layered yet brilliant extension of Tim's magic. This is not just a song. It is a spell. One that is embedded in deep mythos. And like many songs that seem to stick with us, it is bittersweet, haunting...and timeless.
Explain?
Have you checked out Robert Plant's version? One of his most exquisite vocal performances. On the Dreamland album, an excellent album overall.
Yes, I can't help thinking there is something timeless and universal hidden in this myth, something that itself calls out to us and draws us in.
100% accurate description
@@victorwilburn8588 i didnt know he did one!
This is tim buckley
- The last known words spoken in the show
I had not heard this song in over 30 years, but after a dream last night, I woke up with the line "Did I dream you dreamed about me?" playing over and over in my head. I am so glad to have found this here and to hear this song again after so many years. Thank-you.
What a beautiful story
I had mortal coil play this song once in a dream.
Tim Buckley's songs (especially this one) speak to me of lost love, lost opportunity, lost time, lost loved ones, faded beauty, and the painful, precious brevity of life. The words and melodies haunt me.
Same
That is beautifully written, thank you.
Same 😥
Oui
Well said Richard
"Did I dream you dreamed about me?"
Best line
I wrote that on the front of my binder as an angst-filled college student.
@@jerrythebarman lmaooo
@@jerrythebarman Was about to write it on mine haha
Were you hare when I was fox?
This song is 4 chords. Combined with the incredible vocals and timing, is one of the best pieces I've heard.
It actually has 5 chords
@@mihanich And those 5 chords are played on 12 strings. Not to be underestimated... ;O)
@@mihanich what is the progression?
I can see the shapes just not sure how they are changed by the capo
@@anotherworld8841 What do you mean? It's pretty straightforward. Slap on a capo on the 2nd fret, play your song in C and it sounds in D. Put the capo on the 3rd fret, play a song in D and it sounds in F. Capo on 5th fret, play in G and it sounds in C. Transposing made easy.
“Now my foolish boat is leaning broken lovelorn on your rocks” symbolism and absolute agony of this line is pure genius and heartbreaking at the same time.
Tim Buckley's songs don't have a traditional chorus/verse structure, rather they are poems put to music.
+Charles Black well put man!
It's obvious that Jeff and Tim had different styles, but Jeff definitely had a large influence from his father lol, the vocal acrobatics, vibrato, and most significantly like what you mentioned, of not having a traditional verse, bridge, al coda, etc. Jeff in an interview admitted he tried to approach his music like so, to make it different than the common music one would hear
+Red Ribbon Cell Project I saw Jeff in Bristol. Good gig. Both died too young, a waste of talent.
Lİke a father like a son man :)
Like Leonard Cohen, in that sense
Strangely his estranged son would be lost to the sea thirty years later. This is
almost an epitaph for him.
Oh wow! ! I never thought of it like that before ! Now it's a even more meaningful, Plus Jeff always sung about what seemed to be at his father, and said writes through dreams sometimes. Songs about death, so only spent like a week or two ever before Tim's death, so it's kinda like they sang to each other! Poor guys!
thats why he walked into the water. to shy from the sorrow. Youve got it there.
+Tim Tipton Well, the Mississippi River actually, but lovely thought.
2 lost hearts without each other, Big guy should've hung around and stayed with his pregnant wife . Then raised his son. We might very well have had 2 phenomenal artist around for a long time.... but we make the plans he makes the changes! Jeff may have not had such passion in his voice.? It's gone and done! Sadly! 💕
+Tim Tipton So true! But also, when Jeff Buckley played I know it's over" and somowhere on the lyric he song (...)the sea wants to take me.
The sirens of greek mythology drew men out to sea where they would drown. I think of his son, Jeff, in this song, who drowned while swimming in a river. That's what makes this song hard to hear.
That is eerie.
Tim also drowned which is extra wierd. Also the version of this sung by this mortal coil is second to none
I love Jeff and now his Father. Loved this song in the 80s by mortal coil
@@chrishawkins4289 his dad died by drowning too that is weird
I did not know this. Thank you. I am buying a farm in the West of Ireland on the Atlantic and the local Druid told me you can hear the mermaids singing from our land. I thought I would learn this for them. Perhaps I can honor Jeff someway on my land.
This absolutely destroys the studio recorded version, it's not even close. What a wonderful performance.
Yes, the soul in a live performance can never be equalled. We are lucky that the Monkees guys invited him in to the studio to perform this.
👏👏👏 i love all kinds of music. What a beautiful song . Gave me goose bumps 😌
@@bmcgoo6027'Live' performance?
This one is better, but the studio version has a very different, very raw energy to it.
I saw/heard Tim Buckley at the Middle Earth club in London in Spring 1968. I was practically a baby but got up real close to the stage and gave myself up to his other-worldly, mesmerizing, gorgeous music. I'll never forget it, a true highlight of my life.
One of the most beautiful songs that have been written. Ever.
I agrEE!
1000000%
INDEED!!! RjB
A highpoint for humanity.
Yes, and its The Divine, the Ocean of Infinitude speaking to its little ones.
The lyrics tell us this.
That is the way of most all great songs & poetry.
💖🙏🌻
No one seems to note the co-writer of this song, poet Larry Beckett, who was responsible for most of the lyrics of Buckley's finest songs. The song is the lyrics as well. Elton John was at his best when Bernie Taupin created the images, rhythms, and phrasing of the songs.
Thank you
Right on..
Damn
Yes, Larry Beckett remains constantly obscured in this. Both Buckley and Beckett co-wrote it.
Elton john sucks balls...
" Long afloat on shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
'Til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving to your isle
And you sang
Sail to me
Sail to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am
Here I am
Waiting to hold you
Did I dream you dreamed about me?
Were you hare when I was fox
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks,
For you sing, "Touch me not, touch me not, come back tomorrow:
O my heart, O my heart shies from the sorrow"
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Thanks .👍👍👍
Jeff and Tim don't get enough recognition. They were both incredibly talented and barely get mentioned
Oh, they got plenty!
@@Mandrake591 no they don't sorry but a bitter truth
Jeff was extremely successful for the very small time his career existed
Tim on the other hand is vastly overshadowed by a bunch of musicians inferior to his music and inspired by his music, he's foreshadowed by his own son
Jeff had good recognition thru his era, although he was in a grunge era with other big heads at the time like Cobain Cornell or Staley, with Tim I guess the change or music path that he does in Hello/Goodbye, Happy Sad and Greetings from LA made that few people stay in a certain line, maybe he had a better recognition that his contemporary Jackson C Frank, he became more aware for the public eye for his song Carnival in the movie Joker, and Tim has a bigger identification that Jackson for example...
i can't just hear this masterpiece without leaving a comment as a reminder that one day i was here and then I was gone.
majid alramada
Aw that's somehow beautiful 😊
Brilliant
What a great comment
Plitzkaya !!! That’s a nice sentiment, but I hope you get to make or do something to be remembered by that’s more prominent, and positive than a CZcams comment
I had a bad trip once...this song started randomly playing on my tv and comforted me during a shroom induced anxiety attack, and for that I thank you mr Buckley.
A Beautiful fate.
I was very moved by this and glad that this song was there to save the day.
Buckley solving problems he didn't know existed
😂🤍✨
You should tie your shoe laces up properly, prevents tripping.
Too beautiful to listen to very often - this kills me
Waiting to hold you. That is literally the most heart wrenching lyric ever written.
The best songs are the ones with beauty and sadness within them, that express hard truths about life and the mysteries of love...
I agree. I wasn't born to lose you from Bob Dylan's I Want You gets me every time.
Exactly my relationship to Tim Buckley. In a way, I don't need to actually listen to him bc his music deep inside waiting to be remembered. But of course, then I do listen, and rendered speechless.
Saddest song ever. So raw, fragile and honest. Some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written. Breaks my heart and mends it back together simultaneously.
Megan O'Brien Nicely put.
I've always found 'Morning Glory' to be a tad sadder.
Megan O'Brien oh yes!... what she said!
"So raw, fragile and honest. Breaks my heart and mends it back together simultaneously"... Poetry describing poetry.. Thanks Megan O'Brien
Well said. I feel the same way. It's such a heavy song.
Credit should go to the Monkees as well, who introduced Tim Buckley and this masterpiece of a song on their TV show!
Just saw that episode and I never knew who Tim Buckley was.
Rather it was Micky Dolenz who introduced Tim Buckley to TV screens everywhere on that final episode of "The Monkees". Davy Jones got Charlie Smalls on the show and Mike Nesmith was responsible for getting Frank Zappa to perform a 5-minute skit on the episode "The Monkees Blow Their Minds". The Monkees were tired of the same old plotlines they were doing since September 1966, and wanted to do something different by inviting these performers they admired.
@@robertorick6383 Apparently the four of them, if Season 3 was made, wanted to turn into more of a music/variety show. Still with Monkee-hyjinks, largely through sketches, but they wanted to have more opportunities to bring musicians on and have group performances and discussions. Wasn't green-lit. Wouldn't that have just been an absolutely gorgeous piece of television?
We need this kind of music in this weird time....
@Anne O'Nymous yeah. And the music 😊
Agreed.
This song is a masterpiece. I've always listened to Jeff Buckley, but a few days ago I decided so hear something from his dad and damn, wish I did it earlier. I can't even describe how I'm feeling right now. The only thing I know is that I'm feeling A LOT. Power of music
What a treat though for you - I wish I could rediscover this music again for the first time...
Same for me in reverse.
I was at record store and they were featuring that iconic album, and I took a look at the cover and knew instantly that it was Tim Buckley's son...even though I didn't know Tim Buckley had a son.
When I put the record on, same as you, I felt that I needed some help explaining how I was feeling.
Jeff was good but Tim Buckley was a genius.
same thing happened for me , I was Checkin out Jeff's songs n when his birthday was on Google then I came across his dads name n decided to checked out his songs too ..🎸❤
@@deeptime5581 it's a shame that he didn't want anything to do with Jeff. I think he would have been proud.
When I feel like I don’t fit in even with my own friends, I always turn to good stuff like this. It reminds me that there is nothing wrong with me and everything will be alright
❤
This is one of those songs that speak to the soul. So beautiful and enveloping, I can feel the see, the sun, and the emerging feeling of love.
He and Nick Drake were both underrated in life; all but forgotten in death...
Tim Buckley had and gave two gifts, his music and son. Despite the tragedy of both Jeff and Tim, they gave the world a universal gift of music. Very beautiful and symbolic it is.
Hats Off to The Monkees for introducing an artist such as Tim Buckley to a teeny-popper audience!
That'd be teeny-bopper lol....
That Picasso pic, I believe, is the one that inspired Paul McCartney to write 'Picasso's Last Words'. Another brilliant, though very different type of tune...
The Monkees copped a hiding but were amazingly supportive of opening doors for others , giving respect which they also deserved
Tim Buckley caught up with Mike Nessmith a year after this performance:
Mike “I see you’re still wearing the same clothes”
Tim “I see you’re still singing other people’s songs”
This always makes me cry! So Raw and Beautiful; Right from the Soul!
I can't even find words to describe this.....
un hombre de vanguardia
I bought my first guitar because of this song
Amazing
Wow, muy bonita historia.
Cada vez que escucho esta canción, siento a la música partise en el verbo más bello.
Tim Buckley restauraba almas a través del arte. Maravilloso por donde se le escuche. Espero verlo en mi paso al nunca jamás.
Thank you for sharing this. :)
Kinda weird - like hearing hendrix and saying "I should get singing lessons"
David Drake exactly
Long afloat on shipless oceans
I did all my best to smile
'Til your singing eyes and fingers
Drew me loving to your isle
And you sang
Sail to me, sail to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am, here I am
Waiting to hold you
Did I dream you dreamed about me ?
Were you hare when I was fox ?
Now my foolish boat is leaning
Broken lovelorn on your rocks
For you sing
'Touch me not, touch me not
Come back tomorrow
Oh my heart, oh my heart
Shies from the sorrow'
I am puzzled as the oyster
I am troubled as the tide
Should I stand amid your breakers ?
Or should I lie with death my bride ?
Hear me sing
'Swim to me, swim to me
Let me enfold you
Here I am, here I am
Waiting to hold you'
Love wrapped in melody
Grazie
Beautiful song! Should I lie with Death my Bride? Very strange, foreboding and telling lyric since he died by drowning in water. And his did too. Weird!
@@dynjarren7523 That would be his son Jeff. David died from a heroin overdose.
@@dougbennett8592 You mean Tim.
One of the greatest songs ever written. A masterpiece.
I found my way here vita Justice League. It rung my DNA and vibrated my soul.
Amen
It's a beautiful melody and sentiment that's dogged me all my life.
For me one of the best songs ….love it ❤️…R.I.P Tim 😢
justice league snyder cut flash iris scene brought us here, amazing song
😂
same
Yesssss!
Beautiful song and scene
imo
One of the few good things about being a geezer is having seen Buckley in person.
The man's music was great.
imo
I like how the Monkees did this sort of thing. They knew a lot of people watched their show, so they gave an occasional chance to people who didn't have a TV show.
Is that was this footage is from?
@@bobthompson8053
Yes, this is from an episode of _The Monkeees_ in 1968.
@@SailorBarsoom damn their name looks cool with 3 e's
@@JustineLaLoba
OK, normally I would edit that, if I ever noticed it, but now I'm going to leave it as it is.
@@bobthompson8053 It was from the final episode "The Frodis Caper".
Like Father Like Son, Both Equally talented, both gorgeous, both gone too soon.. RIP Tim and Jeff
Tim was way more talented than Jeff
@@moonchildtheking5008 I love love LOVE Jeff, but I also agree with you. Jeff was more of a immensely gifted mimic. He could sing just like Nina Simone, or Ella Fitzgerald, or Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, but Tim sang like Tim, like nobody else, and nobody else has sounded anything like him since.
@@summercoat that's not a contest guys. And to say Tim was more talented than Jeff is bullshit. Both are equally talented and gifted artists.
@@halloweenjack95 I meant Tim was more original, Jeff more of an amazing mimic. I don't mean that in any way as an insult to Jeff.
he hated being put in comparison with him tho
Folk music is so pretty
How could a man be that beautiful?
Did I dream you dreamed about me.
Stunning.
"This is Tim Buckley"
Yes.
First time I heard him like his son gone way too soon (R.I.P)
The face of a male Angel! And voice of course too.
Still in love with this song in 2022. 💜
2023 here
MONKEES WERE AHEAD OF THEIR TIME WITH THE LIKES OF TIM AND FRANK ZAPPA,etc. great show thanks for this performance
This man is easily one of the most underrated artists’ of all time. Tim Buckley’s voice is totally unmatched. Jeff, obviously, was fantastic in his own way, but there’s a certain warmth and control in Tim’s voice that makes it stand out so much. He was an outstanding artist.
I think Jeff had a greater range but Tim had greater control of his range
Criminally under appreciated.
I SO agree! Very underrated. I've only just discovered him but the voice is like chocolate
Tim was a mesmerizing singer. It’s hard to think of singers who can compare.
@@richardhumberstonept622 you wouldnt say that if you heard come here, woman. Tim had complete control over a four octave range.
Thanks to Zack Snyder and his personal cut of JL many of us have been listened this lovely tune.
True
Oh, that's super weird. By happenstance, I just listened to Robert Plant's cover of this, then listened to a review of Snyder's Justice League, then decided to come and listen to Buckley's original and work out how to play it on the guitar. Then I discover it's actually in the Justice League film.
Yeah it was so nice decided to make also small cover for it
Check out John frusciantes cover of this - best version
@@littledaddi3 There are so many great versions out there. I also love Kitty MacFarlane's.
We desperately need more song writers of that caliber.
HortonKansas Recomended: Joanna Newsom
Cristian García literally the greatest of all time
HortonKansas where did all the good songs go
It's more that we just need more people of that caliber. Unfortunately the mediocre in our society tend to be the ones that more often gain the spotlight, most likely because they're more likely to conform to what is expected of them. Musicians that think and feel deeply like Dylan, Waits, Buckley, Elliott Smith, Joni Mitchell, Mark Koczelek, Nick Drake, Brian and Dennis Wilson ect. are the types that generally get shunned by society even in times like this where we need them now more than ever.
Nick Drake, Elliot Smith
I cry every time I hear this
One of my favourite videos on youtube come back to it regularly. What a beautiful song and a beautiful perfomance ⭐
What a way for The Monkees to end their series...transition from Pop to thought provoking folk - Classic performance.
I’m a 58 year old bloke and my eyes are tearing up..what a great song
ME TOO (62!)
Me too (26)
Was this the first time you heard it ?
Yes the very first time, I've bought the album since..
Yes 55 there is a lifetime in it
That was way unexpected for a Monkees show, mystical and remarkable.
Micky Dolenz loved Buckley's music and internalized some of his singing style, I feel.
@@stu63 I never thought about that, but yeah, I can really hear it.
brilliance
This exact film is from the last episode of The Monkees tv show, that's Mickey Dolenz introducing him. A soul shattering performance 😭😭😭
I was only 14 when I saw this episode of the Monkees. I was far too young to understand its beauty.
1968...Jeff was two years old, then. He met his father when he was 8 years old, and he spent just two weeks with him, for all his life. Two months later Tim died at the age of 27... So tragic for Jeff. He hurt so much. But these two wonderful musical souls will be always a big loss for music.
Sofia Noiti 28
why u talking about his son on this video? who cares?
Because he was a greate musician too
They look so much alike
The relationship between Tim and Jeff - the latter the only one known to so many people of the the last 20years - is now one of the classic stories of rock history. They made an award winning movie, Greetings from Tim Buckley, about the effect of Tim's legacy on Jeff's ability to create, to get in front of an audience despite his own eerily similar talent, in an indie-90's context. So, while I grew up with Tim and his music, the Jeff story, the abandonment of mother and unborn child, the few beautiful but not-enough songs Tim wrote to them, aren't separable from the story of Tim anymore.
I am so in love.
Heart breaking
I just can't believe that he brought this to the world when he was just 21, while I am 21 in a few days and my life is just about to start
Роберт Плант своей интерпретацией этой песни свëл меня с ума, заставляя слушать и слушать песню бесконечно долго!
One of the most beautiful song ever written.
please, play it at my funeral...
This piece was done at the end of one of The Monkees episodes. That was Mickey Dolenz introducing him. Sometimes at the end of their show they had time left over and would run outtakes. Sometimes they would have time for music from some other artist. I remember seeing this when it aired.
Me too! Was lucky enough to see Tim twice in London.
@@grigorisgirl
Lucky is the word. Good for you. Great memory.
@@robertacolarette1594 Indeed, until I realise it was 53 years ago!😱
@@grigorisgirl
Yeah, I hate hearing that number 53. It’s so unbelievable. 😳
@@robertacolarette1594 Just have to remember I was so lucky to hear such wonderful music back in those days.
I heard This mortal coil's version first and thought it was brilliant, then I stumbled upon the original by Tim Buckley and my scale for brilliance has skyrocketed.
I just found out that this song that I’ve loved for 40 years on this mortal coil, was written by Tim Buckley. Amazing!
Song from another world........🥺
The big difference between music like this and music today, in case you wanted to know...
Is that these people *LIVED IT.* It wasnt just a song, but a way of life. Thats why its so beautiful.
back then there were plenty of people who didn't live their music, as there are now. i also think tim was unique in the way he performed his songs. not even then were there many people singing as heartfeltly as he did.
@@alexs5070 Thats a great point. Thank you.
@@alexs5070 100% agree
This was the direction the Monkees wanted to go for the 3rd season. More of a variety show with guest stars.
They should have had their way. I've heard that Janis Joplin would have made a guest appearance on their show had it continued. Shame their show got cancelled and we were deprived of a 3rd season considering they were a foursome until the end of 1968 when Peter Tork left the group.
Gone 45 years ago today. You’re, eternal, Tim. You’ll never disappear
His voice is so.... REGAL! Damn. (I've been a fan of his son, Jeff, for years - but never bothered to find Tim's music until now). What a voice
haunting yet beautiful
my good taste for music brought me here
Same!!
mine too!
Yep
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Same
ClandestineOstrich I Agree With You Most Humans Are Not As Conscious and Open Minded As They Should Be. But No Help In Laughing At Them Mate, Better Yet Hold Out A Helping Hand And Help Others Learn. We Are All In This Together. Also Don't Give Full Credit To LSD For You Being A Smart Individual. I'm Sure Cid Opened Some Doors For You, Like It Has Me, But I Believe You Became Intellectual On Your Own.
Sad jeff died drowning yet his dads last words in this song is hear me say swim to me waiting to hold you 😢
I've never heard this original version before. I'm literally in tears.
I'm stunned. I honestly didn't realise that This Mortal Coils version was a cover, so this is way ahead of its time.
This live version, the way he sings it so clear with such emotion, never fails to give me goosebumps.
+brokenanklesarentfun True!
He is still giving goosebumps 45+ years on...
+Naseem Syed seriously underrated!!,
the best version of this song from the monkees t v series appearance
This is the most beautiful performance of any song by any artist on the internet. Prove me wrong.
Not that this is a contest, may I point you in this direction, in case you have missed it down the years. czcams.com/video/69sLI4n674s/video.html
John Frusciantes version of this amazing song
Indescribably beautiful.
Jeff was a spitting image of his dad, can see where he got his gift from
Never underestimate The Monkees. This is great, thank you for posting.
what is it about me that i love these melancholy songs so much?? sometimes i forget just how much i love this, as a song and as a performance and simply as a poem. no one can touch this version for the emotion... so funny because when i heard it as a girl, this mortal coil, i didn't realize it was truly the most beautiful in its simple sweetness. i may have seen this years earlier as a girl on monkees reruns without putting it together. tv was better then but i digress. at the same time, he's so unbelievably sad. tim's like a stray animal that you want to take home and give him food, shelter, rest and let him mend. i hope his sad poetic spirit finally found some peace.
I wish I'd written that. Thank you for expressing in words what many of us could not. Love and respect.
Joe Black +++100000000000000000
This Mortal Coil version is a fine example of how to make a song sound like one of your own while still capturing the essence of the original and doing it justice.
Happy Heavenly Birthday 🎂 Tim Buckley
Feb 15
(Its now 2024 yes your still remembered well n missed )
Now in my 80th year, I am still a fan of Tim. Equal to Dylan and on the heels of Lightfoot.
Lightfoot never truly gets the credit he rightfully deserves as a songwriter
We can't be forgetting Leonard cohen
The Monkees TV Show helped me discover Tim Buckley and Frank Zappa.
I was just thinking, that looks like the set of the Monkees where Mike playing Zappa interviews Zappa playing Mike?
What an amazing closure for the Monkees series.
I've been watching this video for nine years. Lol still not bored of hearing it.
*12 years now* 👌
Heartbreaking song...I can´t listen without the incredibly sad feeling that his son Jeff unconsciously followed Tim´s call to enfold him forever, swimming and sinking to him into eternity.
Me and my wife played this song at our wedding; me guitar & voice and she at the violin.
It has been intense, unforgettable.
Thanks, Tim
Thank you tim x
"should I lie with death my bride" always gets me.
Why? Are you a necrophiliac? Not judging …
This is my favorite song. I want this to be played at my funeral