What's amazing with the 60's, is that, when you think you've heard it all, some song like this on comes and smash you right in the heart. A decade of pure, eternal, musical bliss......
tell me a lie and I'll cry for you ,
tell me of sin and I'll laugh,
if you tell me of all the pain you've had,
I'll never smile again"
my favourite lyrics ever. beautiful stuff.
This is my all-time favorite Tim Buckley piece, not just because its lyrics mirrored the kaleidoscopic realities of the most intense love affair of my life (with the most artistically talented and exquisitely beautiful woman I would know in this lifetime), but because the words are unabashedly pagan -- what the late Robert Graves would have (correctly) described as "a dialogue between the Goddess (or the woman who is her earthly incarnation) and her chosen bard." Such was Buckley -- the finest Muse-poet of the 20th Century and probably of the past two thousand years.
This song has 49 years. Tim was 20. I listened to it for the first time when I was 13 in 1979 and it has been the soundtrack of my whole life . Thank you Tim, from the deep of my heart.
I saw Tim at the Troubador in Los Angeles & sat right below the stage. I was all but 14 years old. I was in love - he was so talented & wrote beautiful lyrics. I loved poetry & words with strong images - even then as a young girl. This song was immensely incredible. Back in those days there was no security at clubs & my friend & I walked up to the dressing room after the show but chickened out to knock at the door & we just left. I did get his guitar pick that he dropped & still have it!