Today I feel like pleasing you more than before
Today I know what I want to do but I don’t know what for
To be living for you is all I want to do To be loving you it’ll all be there when my dreams come true
Today you’ll make me say that I somehow have changed
Today you’ll look into my eyes, I’m just not the same
To be anymore than all I am would be a lie
I’m so full of love I could burst apart and start to cry
Today everything you want, I swear it all will come true
Today I realize how much I’m in love with you
With you standing here I could tell the world what it means to love
To go on from here I can’t use words, they don’t say enough
Please, please listen to me It’s taken so long to come true
And it’s all for you
All for you…
I was born in 1994. My father always listened to old music, that way I now know all the good music from the 60s and 70s. Anytime I see videos from that time, or when I hear music from that era, I feel a strange kind of nostalgia for a time I've never even lived in.
I remember the first time I listened to this song, totally swept me of my feet. Just had a fun-cigarette, sitting with a great group of friends at the beach, watching them building a bonfire, sipping wine, eating marshmallows and oranges. I just felt lucky and wanted this moment to last forever..... haha alas, nothing lasts forever. Being a granny now, and still happy, I feel privileged I grew up with so many great bands and in such a fantastic era...:-)
Maybe one of the most heartfelt beautiful songs ever written, perfect in every way. Grew up with all of this and it is so much better today and it was so great then. Cant say any more.
This week I was informed I have the cancer. I am 67 and lived through the very best of the 1960's. I find my god in the places man has not touched yet. I encourage all the kids of the 1960's to find such a spot for themselves and quietly reflect on just how very lucky we were to have been born into that time and music. It was an amazing time for me and my friends. As for alone. I am never alone as long as there is a new flower to view or a blue sky to enjoy or a old jefferson airplane song to listen to. Some day we will all leave here and go to a place where woodstock is every day! Fireworks just now going off here in Tucson. Its New Year"s eve and I just made a new year with great music. Enjoy the moment, its all we have. Love and Peace to all.
This song is a chameleon. It's meaning changes with the listener's mood. Is it a passionate love song? Is it the plaintive plea of a spurned lover? Yes to both. It depends on your interpretation, and that depends on your life experiences. That, I think, makes it a masterpiece.
Much has happened since New Years eve. Now 1 months later I have good news. My cancer is treatable. Friday I had a PEG tube and Chemo port installed. Today Is my first of 35 radiation treatments over the next 7 weeks. Chemo starts tomorrow. My cancer doctors are very hopeful that we can beat back this one. My cancer is in my mouth and throat and will probably require feeding tube for a few weeks. But I am ready and willing to do my part to insure I win this match. One other thing. It was not my intent to confuse anyone in my post on Dec 31. My wife, pat, was out of town and I simply did not know how to set up my own listing. My name is John Maisch, pat's husband. I spoke from my heart then and after rereading my comment back then would not change a word. I grew up in a wonderful time with this great music. God bless all the wonderful folks who took the time to comment. Lets us all remember we are not alone in life's challenges.
Today, I feel like pleasing you
More than before
Today, I know what I want to do
But I don't know what for
To be living for you
Is all I want to do
To be loving you
It'll all be there
When my dreams come true
Today, you'll make me say
That I somehow have changed
Today, you'll look into my eyes
I'm just not the same
To be any more than all I am
Would be a lie
I'm so full of love
I could burst apart
And start to cry
Today, everything you want
I swear it all will come true
Today, I realize how much
I'm in love with you
With you standing here
I could tell the world
What it means to love
To go on from here
I can't use words
They don't say enough
Please, please listen to me
It's taken so long to come true
It's all for you, all for you
MARTY BALIN REST IN PEACE
MY LOVE WAS SPARKED AS A PRETEEN BY YOUR SONGS!!! Native California Girl
John Maisch checking in. I STILL LOVE THIS SONG. Been 3 years since my last post. CANCER IS GONE. Great medical team in Tucson came thru with great treatment. THANKS TO ALL, for your loving replies 4 years ago, when I was SO fearful of the path ahead. Raining today in Tucson. Simply a great day to rock back and listen to some great music from the 1960's.
Denver Colorado the summer after senior year. Two friends and I drove there and stayed with my older brother in Conifer. Walking through a mall and I heard this amazing music coming out of a store. I stopped dead in my tracks, walk into the store and bought my first ever album. Jefferson Airplane Takes Off.
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget.”
Arundhati Roy
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So envious now of my older sister who moved to San Francisco with her boyfriend in 1967 when she was 19. I was just 7 years old at the time and had no idea what i was missing until much later. She breaks out her photo albums and we look through them now and she tells me about the amazing free concerts she saw in Golden Gate Park and the energy of The City during the Summer of Love. Must have been quite a time.
