One of EJ's most overlooked songs. Sting's cover is equally brilliant! If someone had any talent and brains and made another cover - it would surely be a modern hit! I think Sia could do this song justice!
@TheSlavette Hey Seattle! Longview, WA here. Have you guys taken your city back from Mother Nature yet? We only saw a few news clips of the conditions up there. At that point, snowmobiles and ski's were the mode of transportation. We got about 10" here. Our only problem was after the snow melt. The land just can't absorb any more water. Neighbors are pumping water out of their back yards. I walk away a bit muddy, but unscathed. Hope all's well. Love the song. Love his "early years" music!
Probably the best song ever written, I never have forgot this song after all these years. I have been listening to Elton since 1970 and will certainly continue to do so.
This is my all-time favorite song ever..... "like it was today".... I remember hearing this song for the first time. What a falling off was there. EJ's music speaks to me...still.
It's 1970 all over again. Walking back to the dorm in the dead of winter. Wistfully longing for that slender beauty to afraid to approach. Lonely and unsure. All snaps back into focus with this superlative collaboration between Elton & Bernie.
a girl I once shared life with, put me onto this tune, and when ever I hear it,,I'll always remember her ,,,,,forever,,,,her name is "jo" and she will know I mean it,,,see ya !,,,,,"bandit"
Uno dei massimi vertici dell'ars musicale di Sir Elton.Forse qui davvero si parla di perfezione stilistica, armonia perfetta, melodia mai banale ma sinuosa e affascinante che resta nella mente.E poi, in quegli anni Elton era sincero fino al midollo: erano lontani i coccodrilli...(e anche i dollari a palate)....
Phew. It's 40 years since I heard this. I'm filling-up.
I hate to analyze but, there are moments in this song when there is but a harp and an upright bass playing. Less is more. I can actually completely hear Bernie Taupin's hypnotic lyrics and Elton John's wonderful singing voice. Sublime.
@K3KCT If you can get a copy of Elton doing this at Radio City Music Hall you'll see the harp and french horn featured prominently, so much it will MAKE YOU CRY !!
God I had forgotten about these song, I remember hearing early Elton John on my brother's FM radio in the early 70s (I just had a little transistor AM radio) as with many artist his early stuff is much batter than the later, this song is poetry, plain and simple.
This and Love Song (with Lesley Duncan) are the star tracks for me, then listen to First episode at Hienton and 60 years on from his 1st album. All are on here, all are beautiful and take this bloke of 60 back to my first concerts with EJ, The Rolling Stones, Led Zep, those were the days.
Also, just for fun...check out Mick Ronson playing guitar on an early version of Madman Across the Water. It's on Youtube. It was not chosen as the released track, but worth a listen. No wonder Bowie said, "I found my Jeff Beck..."
This album, this song left me wondering what would they come up with next. 40 years later, I'm still looking forward to what they will do next. Thanks for the decades of giving me new songs to sing.
Loving music, rock 'n roll, R&B, pop, for 48 years.... but this remains my #1 favorite song ever. Ever. Thanks for seeing me through a horrific childhood and adolescence, EJ and BT. xo
@LolasTubular Same thing man,i think about E.J. and B.T. everyday without fail,and i'm 45 years old now,and i remember vividly when i first started listening when i was 9 years old in 1974,and again i grew up in an emotionally challenging environment myself,with my mom being severely depressed,and struggling with mental illness.it was hard because i loved my mother,so i know exactly what your saying,i couldn't have said it better myself.
@FRANCECHILD Why does Our lord and saviour Love any Man. He Our Lord and God Became a man, a child, small enough for his very own creation to cradle him and hold him close to his/her heart. He was that close to us, enough to hear our beating hearts(of course he was always even closer). The answer, Christ was a brother to all men. As the redeemer he loves and seeks the sinner. "a healthy man does not need a physician." Lets see if I'm banned now from commenting on such a loving song"
Forse il vertice creativo dell'Elton "senza quattrini." Ma come si fa a scrivere una canzone che è un capolavoro per lirismo, interpretazione, suono globale dell'arrangiamento e infine il tocco magico nei versi del Bernie più innamorato e ispirato che ci sia.E dire che da li a poco sbucherà fuori il Coccodrillo che balla il rock and roll...Che tristezza.
Beautiful tune! I love the wind, harp, and string arrangements. Of course, if this were made today, synthesizers would take the place of the live musicians.
@JET997u they are to the point with technology, that they are planning on bringing John Wayne and marilyn Monroe back to the movies. Seems they will not need to pay actors someday. The Human element will only be from a recorded memory. And of course the "BOTTOM LINE" will be great...PROFIT, before art. Our generation protested and preached against materialism. Humans are Consumers and that feeds the bottom line. We need to discern what we should be consuming.
I come from corona queens, back in the 60's this was some of the best music out, & the band! I love & miss it , the kids today have no idea I wish we all could all go back
You know, I like to think of myself as a traditional, "manly" man. I hunt with a bow and arrow, etc...but this song brings mist to my eyes... it's just so beautiful.
From the moment I heard my first EJ song in the summer of 1970 ("60 Years On," on KABC-FM in Los Angeles) up until this very day, there is no EJ song that has moved me or haunted me the way this one has. Elton's early stuff--almost everything from 1970 through late 1973--was just spectral in quality. And "Come Down In Time" remains my favorite song of his of all time. The sheer beauty & emotional wallop it packs is enough to bring a grown man like me to tears. Seriously. Thanks for posting this.
@oliasdoug There are so many good songs from EJ and like you 60 years on is one my favourites. Try First Episode at Hienton which is on a par with others but less well known.
Reminds me of a girl I was crazy about in high school but never could muster the balls to tell her. I'm afraid I was the one that left myself counting the stars.
Found out later that she would have held me. Haven't thought about her much til now.
@lazydaisydays Yes, it's both deeply painful and tragic to realize this truth, this loss of art, emotion, depth and meaning. One has to go back in time, carefully, to capture it with select artists. BTW. there are two bass players on this track and the acoustic lead is done by none the less than Herbbie Flowers along with Dee Murray on electric fret-less bass I believe. Both amazing and gifted humans. If this moves you try this by Joni Mitchel: "COME IN FROM THE COLD"
been reading comments, and just have to say, this channel has the most compassionate following,, that I've seen anywhere,,keep it up ,,it's good for you !,,I like it ,and. it works for me !,,thnx. for sharing..
The arrangement and instrumentation are supurb. This song makes me ache for love everytime I hear it. The imagery of this song has haunted me since I first heard it, when it was new...I LOVE THIS SONG!
Needed to hear this song today...... Been a sad, crazy, frigthening time around my world lately.... But today, the dawn brought not just the sun and birdsong in the heavy damp of a tropical summer morning, it brought hope.
And with hope and faith, just about anything is possible..........
I used to put this album on and lay on my bed and close my eyes and just get lost in this beautiful early Elton John. I wished he had stayed with his roots. His early music was very heartfelt and yet so basically beautiful.
@JackVrooder One wonders as fame & fortune comes...if some and I should say many look to being a star first before a poet or composer. Indeed Sir Elton entertained for many more years, but of hiis catalog of songs do we return to
"there are women ... women and ... some hold you tight --- while some leave you counting stars in the night"
a song filled with imagery ... there oughta be a movie made around this song ... and not the other way around.
There's a lot more people who were feelers in the 70's ... people who felt enough to make songs like these ... people who felt enough to really understand and connect to them ... maybe I'm just getting old but man --- these sounds soooo beautiful to me ... nothing like it.
@JuliansFlightdotcom I so agree. For all the craziness socially and politically, there was also still a feeling of hope and that if we could put a man on the moon, surely we could make this world, a better place for everyone. I do not regret an hour of my gloriously misspent youth, nither the dreams lost or found; not a moment, not a sunset, not a tear of it ........
@gulfgypsy ... I'm with you there GulfGypsy ... Misspent youth meant you had a great time : ) Saw "God Gave Me Strength" on your channel --- one of my faves as well. Bacharach is a national treasure. ciao - Julian
@JuliansFlightdotcom Isn't he? The songs that touch a soul and never leave the memory are those that ring true. That connect one person to another and reaffirm that all the seperates one from another, is time (shameless borrowed from a Seal song ;) )
Elton John & Bernie Taupin created a soundtrack for life, for over what? Maybe 30 years?
I first heard this song in 8th grade-and it sang to my broken heart-or the possibility of a broken heart (hey, we all had 8th grade broken hearts), then kept it on my playlist for the next 40 years-through broken, and mended hearts
Actually it's been 40 years Digging! I was born in 65 and lucky for me my parents were cool and played all this music for me as I grew up - Tumbleweed Connection is among the best from back then along with Sticky Fingers, Abraxas, Nilson Shmilson, and Room To Move. They don't make music like that anymore - at least not entire albums of it - long live the pre-MTV era!!
looking back, we needed these songs as much then as we do now. I remember many times just laying on my bed, singing these beautiful songs, or sitting in my bedroom chair looking out the window and listening for the pure pleasure of hearing such great songs. it's somewhat sad that young people today don't listen to music the same way.
Has anyone heard Elton's Radio City Music Hall concert on DVD ?? This song will give you chills. Fantastic. Get it, you won't be disappointed. Trust me.
Per the comments, early Elton is very good (this being one of the finest), but I think that if you look to Honky Chateau, Don't Shoot Me, Yellow Brick Road and Caribou, Elton really expands his range. Songs like Funeral For a Friend, This Song Has No Title, Blues For Baby and Me, Mona Lisas, Roy Rogers, Ticking ....they are better than the early Elton. I like early Elton, but I think that his best period was after this album. My opinion. Some duds in those albums, but not many......
@rocktenniscat what the fuck you mean in memory? did he die? god i hope it's not one of those things like 1999 when i was in high school and found out john lennon died. I was so upset. But did dee murray die?
@jason13204 - yes, sorry to say, Dee Murray died of cancer. Elton John did some fund raising to help his family out. Very sad...Dee played with EJ for many years....
I was only 10 when this album came out and each time during the afternoon, I'd turn to find a station like chum to hear a chance of elton singing this song...did not know what it meant, but i love the sound of 'harps' in this...is there harps? i'm mesmerized then as i am now....hard to explain....
Great song or done great. Orchestration great and of subtle haunting beauty. Hard to believe how hard Elton has fallen .. really his stuff is kitsch now. But his first few records were fine.
Rock - I agree though I am not familiar with many of his records. Man you know your music like no one else. I Remember -Sixty Years On- was good; didn't like -Take me to the Pilot. Do agree that Madman was Bernie and Elton's last hurrah. St Peters is a close second to this song as my fav Elton. Only record I have is TC. So where to now .. / If it's true I'm in your hands / I may not be a Christian / But I've done all one man can / I understand I'm on the road .. took myself a blue canoe.
So, for example, a song about a murdered, persecuted individual in the relatively recent song 'American triangle' or a track about a fragile relationship as in the song'Tinderbox' is 'KITSCH' is it? Take those nostalgic ear-muffs off and LISTEN!!
Candelise candles in the wind? You are a big John fan. Look, John is or was very talented but sometimes his writers are not so great, imo. What difference does it make if I like his Early stuff? I don't like Tinderbox - see I never heard it before but unlike you I have an open-mind (despite how i might sound) so I gave it a listen and Tinderbox is just OK melodically - the lyrics seem deep but really I'll take your word that it is very meaningful to you and not KITSCH.
Cont. to candelise I guess you are going to tell me the melody is better than this gem? In that case take a flying jump at a moving donut. Just kidding .. be cool.
Actually this song is one of my favourites as well. However, it's a little curious to be accused of not being too open-minded when you have proved ready to condemn what you had not even heard in the first place, good or bad.????
Not necessarily, as I may know 100 times more good songs by other bands than you know. Or I I be having a better time in so many ways.
But it is irrelevant who is having the better time - we are just talking opinions and music but you are on some kind of plane ride in which you feel you must fly higher than me which is fun but don't go too near the sun.
Instead of expanding to other avenues of life and the wider musical universe, which is obviously for the birds, and keeping within the EJ/BT sphere, what I said, I feel is appropriate, end of.......Branch out if you must.
Obvious for the birds? Bernie T is not a very lyricist or sort of affected though lovely on this brilliant pop and cool to ask John to stutter for effect on this magnificent song . Tumbleweed Connection is my only real connection with Elton though his first 3 records were so fine - Madman across .. and first eponymous are fine too.
@11xzxzxz I guess any discussion over Elton and Bernies' songs are null and void with someone who does not like much of their material. I didn't know. Over 30 albums and three appreciated!! Oh well, those pictures you mentioned are very good, of course. What is 'not a very lyricist or sort of affected' mean, by the way? An over-edited reply or what?????
Candelise - Not really null and void .. some artists I think were just great for one song - and this is a perfect song to me. Perhaps you could be a little less concerned with my quantity and more with my "quality" ha. I like that you seem so intense and really care - me too!! Let's forget the lyrics and "affected" for now.. you can find them in dictionaries.
Candelise I really like 2 of your 3 favorite movies on your site that you mention - The Daytrippers and Goodfellas. Hey we agree on something - I feel it so clear in my ear so come down in time and I'll meet you half-way. Let's not fight anymore; no one is to blame. Unless it's me if you say so. Ha.
Can someone explain this song to me? The meaning. It's so beautiful...I was wondering if it was appropriate for a wedding ceremony....strictly non-tradional wedding. Could this song have many meanings? Someone?
Not appropo for weddings - it's about lost love. This is a masterpiece. It could have many meanings. But I just looked to the last 2 lines " There are women and women and some hold you tight - While some leave you counting the stars in the night. Lost love never to be regained as The Four Tops "Only the Lonely" (OK a lot like marriage..ha) . Definitely Elton and Bernie's most hauntingly beautiful song off Tumbleweed Connections (2nd album) an it has a number of good songs.
A simpler time, a summer of friends, riding a horse out the clover fields, dealing with the pains of adolescencw, and wanting to be grown. If only I'd known then what life would hold. I weep for the beaut y of those times and loss of innocence. Simplicity of song washes the complexity from the soul. Masterpiece
I couldn't say it better i feel your words and the memories send chills through me. As I said in my comment life has flown by and the loves of my past live in this song. well said my friend.
@IBOver Your post begs us, join yourself and friends, prods us to find the ways we had, to create the same now. I'd dismissed Sir elton for years...then I found youtube and rediscovered his and Bernies genius. I will remember these songs now, as they are more important than they were back then. thanks for the great Post.
Sting did a great version of this song--Elton played the piano himself under an assumed name--the 2 rooms album had some great covers and some were just so awful
we all have our opinions.i don't disagree with you but you can't leave out the song "Friends",the song "Your "Song" from "Elton John", then your list minus "Captain" Sorry? I understood that Bernie wrote lyrics for 20 songs and Elton chose the best 10,wrote music to them.After the success up to that point,"YellowBrick" was the first album he used all the lyrics that Taupin wrote and used them. IT WAS HIS 1ST DOUBLE ALBUM,no?I can't put Crocidile Rock in the same class as "Friends"or "Your Song"
about 3 years ago...and Im 41 now, I got stood up on a date, and this song went thru my head
DavidJY1970 3 hours ago
There have actually been quite a few singers who have covered this lovely song. One of most notable was Judy Collins' version.
rfox60647 5 days ago
My mate from Louth,Lincolnshire,Bernie Taupin is not always fully acknowledged,love it b.t. Spilsby boy now in Bristol
hawkedl22 5 days ago in playlist Elton John- Tumbleweed Connection
One of EJ's most overlooked songs. Sting's cover is equally brilliant! If someone had any talent and brains and made another cover - it would surely be a modern hit! I think Sia could do this song justice!
scienceisgod1 1 week ago
Beautiful song.
Kalynda58 1 week ago
music to make love by
Seattle, WA USA
TheSlavette 2 weeks ago
@TheSlavette Hey Seattle! Longview, WA here. Have you guys taken your city back from Mother Nature yet? We only saw a few news clips of the conditions up there. At that point, snowmobiles and ski's were the mode of transportation. We got about 10" here. Our only problem was after the snow melt. The land just can't absorb any more water. Neighbors are pumping water out of their back yards. I walk away a bit muddy, but unscathed. Hope all's well. Love the song. Love his "early years" music!
Msdistarr 4 days ago
the best Elton John ever!!!!
yoredness1 4 weeks ago
There are women and women and
some hold you tight while
some leave you counting the
stars in the night.
JivinJane 1 month ago
Probably the best song ever written, I never have forgot this song after all these years. I have been listening to Elton since 1970 and will certainly continue to do so.
MrPow19 1 month ago
such a lovely song....
rootsdawta 1 month ago
Don't get much better than this people. Brilliant!!
bassmanjoe 2 months ago 4
As I will some day drift away from this life, this consciousnes...I wish to hear this song in my head.
SunnyDays951 2 months ago 2
I will inevitably have tears rolling down my cheeks on this one.
SunnyDays951 3 months ago
the plucking of chords is integral to the poetic rhythm. love this.
Leslie33635 3 months ago
This is my all-time favorite song ever..... "like it was today".... I remember hearing this song for the first time. What a falling off was there. EJ's music speaks to me...still.
LolasTubular 3 months ago
I continue to appreciate these songs more and more as I age.
Cbryer101 3 months ago 2
It's 1970 all over again. Walking back to the dorm in the dead of winter. Wistfully longing for that slender beauty to afraid to approach. Lonely and unsure. All snaps back into focus with this superlative collaboration between Elton & Bernie.
teeka335 3 months ago
a girl I once shared life with, put me onto this tune, and when ever I hear it,,I'll always remember her ,,,,,forever,,,,her name is "jo" and she will know I mean it,,,see ya !,,,,,"bandit"
TheWestendbandit 4 months ago
@TheWestendbandit - I love reading comments like this. It's a testament to the enduring power of this music; thanks for sharing.
camerondiaztwin 3 months ago
@camerondiaztwin your welcome !
TheWestendbandit 3 months ago
might ot like all his songs but Elton John and Elvis are my 2 favorite singers
tommynockersable 4 months ago
brilliant, simply brilliant.
brandenburg05 4 months ago
Uno dei massimi vertici dell'ars musicale di Sir Elton.Forse qui davvero si parla di perfezione stilistica, armonia perfetta, melodia mai banale ma sinuosa e affascinante che resta nella mente.E poi, in quegli anni Elton era sincero fino al midollo: erano lontani i coccodrilli...(e anche i dollari a palate)....
Perfidia4ever 4 months ago
Phew. It's 40 years since I heard this. I'm filling-up.
I hate to analyze but, there are moments in this song when there is but a harp and an upright bass playing. Less is more. I can actually completely hear Bernie Taupin's hypnotic lyrics and Elton John's wonderful singing voice. Sublime.
K3KCT 4 months ago
@K3KCT If you can get a copy of Elton doing this at Radio City Music Hall you'll see the harp and french horn featured prominently, so much it will MAKE YOU CRY !!
gaspo2180 4 months ago
God I had forgotten about these song, I remember hearing early Elton John on my brother's FM radio in the early 70s (I just had a little transistor AM radio) as with many artist his early stuff is much batter than the later, this song is poetry, plain and simple.
wiiwouldntliketoplay 5 months ago 2
What an incredible song, especially considering that you never hear it, anywhere.
zenmachinefilms 5 months ago
Perfect wind down song.
taffywindsor1 5 months ago
@northwestbikermart - my feelings too. '57 here - this was one of the first albums I completely loved - still do.
jlb4 5 months ago
born in 55 this song stills lives with me today.
brings tears to my eyes reliving al my memories.
just stunning
NORTHWESTBIKERMART 5 months ago
@NORTHWESTBIKERMART .....gotta agree with ya on that..I'm a 54 y/o man and this song always makes me blubber
cartyekrut 5 months ago
This and Love Song (with Lesley Duncan) are the star tracks for me, then listen to First episode at Hienton and 60 years on from his 1st album. All are on here, all are beautiful and take this bloke of 60 back to my first concerts with EJ, The Rolling Stones, Led Zep, those were the days.
terryneale 6 months ago
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terryneale 6 months ago
This is my favorite Elton song...beautiful
mtjensen3 6 months ago 2
@mtjensen3 Mine as well. It's actually one of my favorite songs of all time. He and Bernie Taupin could be like magic together.
cyberlucy 5 months ago
Also, just for fun...check out Mick Ronson playing guitar on an early version of Madman Across the Water. It's on Youtube. It was not chosen as the released track, but worth a listen. No wonder Bowie said, "I found my Jeff Beck..."
rocktenniscat 6 months ago
sound seems to have defunct on my comp
6562willow 6 months ago
yes, I am only 28 :( To bad I wasn't born in the 60's or 70's
jason13204 6 months ago in playlist Browne-Garfunkel-Stewart-Doobie-Elton
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well,,as always there be a dark,,we got live
6562willow 6 months ago
well,,as always there be a dark,,
6562willow 6 months ago
absolute favourite childhood song,,
6562willow 6 months ago
It's real hard not to get misty over this one......
SunnyDays951 7 months ago
Get Elton's RADIO CITY MUSIC dvd. I promise you CHILLS !!
gaspo2180 7 months ago
This album, this song left me wondering what would they come up with next. 40 years later, I'm still looking forward to what they will do next. Thanks for the decades of giving me new songs to sing.
1forlooker 8 months ago
This song still gives me a lump in my throat. For me, his best album.
jnwmom 8 months ago
Too bad Mr. Elton turned in his brilliant musicianship for "celebrity" like so many others....sigh... :<{
teerexable 9 months ago
Loving music, rock 'n roll, R&B, pop, for 48 years.... but this remains my #1 favorite song ever. Ever. Thanks for seeing me through a horrific childhood and adolescence, EJ and BT. xo
LolasTubular 9 months ago
@LolasTubular Same thing man,i think about E.J. and B.T. everyday without fail,and i'm 45 years old now,and i remember vividly when i first started listening when i was 9 years old in 1974,and again i grew up in an emotionally challenging environment myself,with my mom being severely depressed,and struggling with mental illness.it was hard because i loved my mother,so i know exactly what your saying,i couldn't have said it better myself.
mactheartofwarfare 9 months ago
The best cut on the album. Sting does a nice job on the tribute album singing his version of this, too.
wpollock1 10 months ago
THANKS BERNIE:-)
MrZepplen 10 months ago
YDOESJESUSLOVEHIM?
FRANCECHILD 11 months ago
@FRANCECHILD Why does Our lord and saviour Love any Man. He Our Lord and God Became a man, a child, small enough for his very own creation to cradle him and hold him close to his/her heart. He was that close to us, enough to hear our beating hearts(of course he was always even closer). The answer, Christ was a brother to all men. As the redeemer he loves and seeks the sinner. "a healthy man does not need a physician." Lets see if I'm banned now from commenting on such a loving song"
steele917 11 months ago
Forse il vertice creativo dell'Elton "senza quattrini." Ma come si fa a scrivere una canzone che è un capolavoro per lirismo, interpretazione, suono globale dell'arrangiamento e infine il tocco magico nei versi del Bernie più innamorato e ispirato che ci sia.E dire che da li a poco sbucherà fuori il Coccodrillo che balla il rock and roll...Che tristezza.
Perfidia4ever 11 months ago
I thought I was the only love sick dreamy teenager in the 70's, sounds like I had lots of company, how did we get here so fast?
bluestreakbuck 11 months ago 15
@bluestreakbuck
Time has a funny way of passing when we least realize it......and you weren't alone. Your company is all around.
ktmggg 5 months ago
@bluestreakbuck - Well said.
grxengine 1 day ago
A great song, one of my first albums I ask for at thee age of 13
MrFoxvalley 11 months ago
Beautiful tune! I love the wind, harp, and string arrangements. Of course, if this were made today, synthesizers would take the place of the live musicians.
bradchaz 1 year ago 2
@bradchaz You are so right (re: synthesizers replacing musicians). Is music ending?
JET997u 1 year ago
@JET997u they are to the point with technology, that they are planning on bringing John Wayne and marilyn Monroe back to the movies. Seems they will not need to pay actors someday. The Human element will only be from a recorded memory. And of course the "BOTTOM LINE" will be great...PROFIT, before art. Our generation protested and preached against materialism. Humans are Consumers and that feeds the bottom line. We need to discern what we should be consuming.
steele917 11 months ago
masterpiece,
gregsonpetty 1 year ago
masterpeace
gregsonpetty 1 year ago
I never heard of this album. This song is exquisite! Absolutely beautiful! Thank you for the post!
JanFromCan 1 year ago 2
also in the Friends soundtrack...movie only available on VHS. I paid $40 to relive.
captainvideoralph 1 year ago
A teenager dreaming about love and wondering if this was how it would be
I just turned my head for a moment and a lifetime has passed xoxo
myblueroad 1 year ago
I come from corona queens, back in the 60's this was some of the best music out, & the band! I love & miss it , the kids today have no idea I wish we all could all go back
joannf54 1 year ago
You know, I like to think of myself as a traditional, "manly" man. I hunt with a bow and arrow, etc...but this song brings mist to my eyes... it's just so beautiful.
coochiemudlo02 1 year ago
One of many great songs from back in that era.
tripinginoregon 1 year ago
From the moment I heard my first EJ song in the summer of 1970 ("60 Years On," on KABC-FM in Los Angeles) up until this very day, there is no EJ song that has moved me or haunted me the way this one has. Elton's early stuff--almost everything from 1970 through late 1973--was just spectral in quality. And "Come Down In Time" remains my favorite song of his of all time. The sheer beauty & emotional wallop it packs is enough to bring a grown man like me to tears. Seriously. Thanks for posting this.
oliasdoug 1 year ago 7
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terryneale 6 months ago
@oliasdoug There are so many good songs from EJ and like you 60 years on is one my favourites. Try First Episode at Hienton which is on a par with others but less well known.
terryneale 2 months ago
@terryneale Valerie's a woman.
Capcoor 2 months ago
I’ve once thought Elton and Bernie couldn’t make anything more beautiful than Sweet Painted Ladies. I was wrong.
vctpenny 1 year ago 2
God, this song takes me back! I want to be 16 again.
tripinginoregon 1 year ago 3
@tripinginoregon Me too; I hear ya!
psychodelicide 1 year ago
@psychodelicide
Hey! Glad I am not alone feeling this way. Elton had some great songs back then. Another was "Your Song".
tripinginoregon 1 year ago
@tripinginoregon "Your Song" is another great one!
psychodelicide 1 year ago
Reminds me of a girl I was crazy about in high school but never could muster the balls to tell her. I'm afraid I was the one that left myself counting the stars.
Found out later that she would have held me. Haven't thought about her much til now.
randomscience1 1 year ago 2
What is it about this song that give me the chills each and every time I hear it? They don't make them like this anymore....
lazydaisydays 1 year ago 3
@lazydaisydays Yes, it's both deeply painful and tragic to realize this truth, this loss of art, emotion, depth and meaning. One has to go back in time, carefully, to capture it with select artists. BTW. there are two bass players on this track and the acoustic lead is done by none the less than Herbbie Flowers along with Dee Murray on electric fret-less bass I believe. Both amazing and gifted humans. If this moves you try this by Joni Mitchel: "COME IN FROM THE COLD"
29midnight 5 months ago
great song from a great album all his early stuff was his best
eddundee 1 year ago 8
Takes me to my childhood. Oh these words...
unitedboss 1 year ago 3
been reading comments, and just have to say, this channel has the most compassionate following,, that I've seen anywhere,,keep it up ,,it's good for you !,,I like it ,and. it works for me !,,thnx. for sharing..
TheWestendbandit 1 year ago
Does anybody know if that's a harp at the very beginning of the song? It sounds like it.
psychodelicide 1 year ago
@psychodelicide - yes that is an actual Harp. There is also an Oboe credited.
aes00703 1 year ago
@aes00703 Thanks for the scoop, I appreciate it. :-)
psychodelicide 1 year ago
♥ the strings in this song!!!
psychodelicide 1 year ago
The arrangement and instrumentation are supurb. This song makes me ache for love everytime I hear it. The imagery of this song has haunted me since I first heard it, when it was new...I LOVE THIS SONG!
thadeusable 1 year ago
Beautiful, one of the greatest songs i ever heard hands down...
bassmanjoe 1 year ago
I got goosebumps then ...I get goosebumps now.....
levenshon 1 year ago 2
masterpiece! Brings back those oh so long ago times of my youth! Thanx!
yikescat56 1 year ago
This is the best, most romantic, gentle, heartfelt song Elton and Bernie EVER created...ahhhhhhhhhh...it takes me back to first love....
2Bonita08 1 year ago
masterpiece of all times, the best love song I ever heard, thanks Sir Elton
Perfidia4ever 1 year ago
Simply amazing. My life is better for having heard this.
huskybrownbass 1 year ago 2
The most sensual pop song ever written...........
mattjackleroy 1 year ago
Needed to hear this song today...... Been a sad, crazy, frigthening time around my world lately.... But today, the dawn brought not just the sun and birdsong in the heavy damp of a tropical summer morning, it brought hope.
And with hope and faith, just about anything is possible..........
gulfgypsy 1 year ago 2
@gulfgypsy sometimes this tune puts me back into perspective also !,, it's a great song !
TheWestendbandit 1 year ago
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mizofan 1 year ago
Haunting, especially when you listen to it at night
markdawsonmusic 1 year ago 3
I used to put this album on and lay on my bed and close my eyes and just get lost in this beautiful early Elton John. I wished he had stayed with his roots. His early music was very heartfelt and yet so basically beautiful.
JackVrooder 1 year ago
@JackVrooder One wonders as fame & fortune comes...if some and I should say many look to being a star first before a poet or composer. Indeed Sir Elton entertained for many more years, but of hiis catalog of songs do we return to
steele917 1 year ago
classic elton !!!!!! it dosen,t get any better ......
actdafoo32 1 year ago
Bernie Taupin wrote some beautiful lyrics and Elton turned the melodies...what a team...
thanksforthemusic 1 year ago
one of the best records ever produced.....pulls one back in time. i love the tumbleweed connection, i always will
rednxrule 1 year ago
"there are women ... women and ... some hold you tight --- while some leave you counting stars in the night"
a song filled with imagery ... there oughta be a movie made around this song ... and not the other way around.
There's a lot more people who were feelers in the 70's ... people who felt enough to make songs like these ... people who felt enough to really understand and connect to them ... maybe I'm just getting old but man --- these sounds soooo beautiful to me ... nothing like it.
JuliansFlightdotcom 1 year ago 25
@JuliansFlightdotcom I so agree. For all the craziness socially and politically, there was also still a feeling of hope and that if we could put a man on the moon, surely we could make this world, a better place for everyone. I do not regret an hour of my gloriously misspent youth, nither the dreams lost or found; not a moment, not a sunset, not a tear of it ........
gulfgypsy 1 year ago
@gulfgypsy ... I'm with you there GulfGypsy ... Misspent youth meant you had a great time : ) Saw "God Gave Me Strength" on your channel --- one of my faves as well. Bacharach is a national treasure. ciao - Julian
JuliansFlightdotcom 1 year ago
@JuliansFlightdotcom Isn't he? The songs that touch a soul and never leave the memory are those that ring true. That connect one person to another and reaffirm that all the seperates one from another, is time (shameless borrowed from a Seal song ;) )
Elton John & Bernie Taupin created a soundtrack for life, for over what? Maybe 30 years?
gulfgypsy 1 year ago
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steele917 9 months ago
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steele917 8 months ago
@JuliansFlightdotcom your age doesnt matter. im 19 and just discovered this awesome song
added23 5 months ago
@added23 keep listening to this mans songs and you will find more magic .elton is the most gifted musition ever
tmtmoormr 4 months ago 2
I first heard this song in 8th grade-and it sang to my broken heart-or the possibility of a broken heart (hey, we all had 8th grade broken hearts), then kept it on my playlist for the next 40 years-through broken, and mended hearts
AceDharma 1 year ago 2
Gorgeous
levenshon 1 year ago
Actually it's been 40 years Digging! I was born in 65 and lucky for me my parents were cool and played all this music for me as I grew up - Tumbleweed Connection is among the best from back then along with Sticky Fingers, Abraxas, Nilson Shmilson, and Room To Move. They don't make music like that anymore - at least not entire albums of it - long live the pre-MTV era!!
miniscov2100 1 year ago
looking back, we needed these songs as much then as we do now. I remember many times just laying on my bed, singing these beautiful songs, or sitting in my bedroom chair looking out the window and listening for the pure pleasure of hearing such great songs. it's somewhat sad that young people today don't listen to music the same way.
rebekahELLE 1 year ago
I love this old song! Lots of meaning. Come down in time!
stoogieb4me 1 year ago
Play at My Funeral! ElderTom. PVT. Whitfield GaDSDF
formine56 1 year ago
30 years...has it been that long?
exquisite song; unforgettable album
god, i just love this song.
DiggingMyOwnGrave2 1 year ago
I so agree. I just found this song again after almost 40 years and the beauty and simplicity of how we loved is so refreshing after all these years.
debbiepeluso 1 year ago 2
Love this... one of my favorites.
ana1sninja 1 year ago
Has anyone heard Elton's Radio City Music Hall concert on DVD ?? This song will give you chills. Fantastic. Get it, you won't be disappointed. Trust me.
gaspo218 1 year ago
what a song writer....even "Sting" said I'm jealous I didn't wrote this song... long live :Elton"
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Rlop1961 1 year ago 2
@Rlop1961 EltonJonn has the writing capability of a "canteloupe" .Bernie Taupin is wrote the lyrics.
Elton did write the music , almost more amazing as he just saw the word and made music. Willie Nelson worked this way often times.
Welders and artists are just born. I am neither.
AUS10TEX 1 year ago
Always listened to this after night school on my way to girlfriends flat,Blimey,got married in "74 same girl,she"s now aTory councillor!!
hawkedl22 1 year ago
Used to sing with this song a lot as kid in the 70's I just love Elton!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ltchealth 1 year ago
A sweet sadness! Elder Tom.
formine56 2 years ago
@formine56 I Still live! Those i loved mean more than ever. now!
formine56 1 year ago
Fiat Lux!!! Elder Tom.
formine56 2 years ago
Per the comments, early Elton is very good (this being one of the finest), but I think that if you look to Honky Chateau, Don't Shoot Me, Yellow Brick Road and Caribou, Elton really expands his range. Songs like Funeral For a Friend, This Song Has No Title, Blues For Baby and Me, Mona Lisas, Roy Rogers, Ticking ....they are better than the early Elton. I like early Elton, but I think that his best period was after this album. My opinion. Some duds in those albums, but not many......
wpollock1 2 years ago 3
Raise a glass in memory of Dee Murray today!
rocktenniscat 2 years ago 10
@rocktenniscat done!
rollingcube 11 months ago
@rocktenniscat what the fuck you mean in memory? did he die? god i hope it's not one of those things like 1999 when i was in high school and found out john lennon died. I was so upset. But did dee murray die?
jason13204 6 months ago
@jason13204 - yes, sorry to say, Dee Murray died of cancer. Elton John did some fund raising to help his family out. Very sad...Dee played with EJ for many years....
rocktenniscat 6 months ago
@jason13204 - PS: Surely, you jest about John Lennon.....unless you are....REALLY young!
rocktenniscat 6 months ago
I was only 10 when this album came out and each time during the afternoon, I'd turn to find a station like chum to hear a chance of elton singing this song...did not know what it meant, but i love the sound of 'harps' in this...is there harps? i'm mesmerized then as i am now....hard to explain....
ZenSporty 2 years ago 4
@ZenSporty, understood.
wetweasel56 2 years ago
@ZenSporty so ur Canadien eh?
vasalike 2 years ago
Yes, born and raised!
ZenSporty 2 years ago
the most beautiful elton john song ever. it takes me back to being 19 and in college, listening to it on vinyl at night.
zumadiane 2 years ago 3
I ask to be played at my Funeral. Elder Tom
formine56 2 years ago
This is the BEST Elton Albulm, yeah, I said albulm. lol Bestest Elton music EVER!
inatizzy2 2 years ago 6
Young and bittersweet here, realizing the words 30 years later...
65Jeannie 2 years ago 28
Another musical masterpiece from the true "King of Pop".
billyjoeboomboom 2 years ago
Great song or done great. Orchestration great and of subtle haunting beauty. Hard to believe how hard Elton has fallen .. really his stuff is kitsch now. But his first few records were fine.
11xzxzxz 2 years ago 6
11xzxzxz,
Very difficult to disagree.
Elton had some pretty good music and lyrics in the three albums preceding TC.
"Elton John," Empty Sky," The Captain and The Kid," seemed to bring him to TC.
Then came "Madman," being the title song, and was, in my opinion, the last of the great musical and lyrical accomplishments from John and Taupin.
Peace.
Rock
rockinroller7 2 years ago 2
Rock - I agree though I am not familiar with many of his records. Man you know your music like no one else. I Remember -Sixty Years On- was good; didn't like -Take me to the Pilot. Do agree that Madman was Bernie and Elton's last hurrah. St Peters is a close second to this song as my fav Elton. Only record I have is TC. So where to now .. / If it's true I'm in your hands / I may not be a Christian / But I've done all one man can / I understand I'm on the road .. took myself a blue canoe.
11xzxzxz 2 years ago
So, for example, a song about a murdered, persecuted individual in the relatively recent song 'American triangle' or a track about a fragile relationship as in the song'Tinderbox' is 'KITSCH' is it? Take those nostalgic ear-muffs off and LISTEN!!
candelise 2 years ago
Candelise candles in the wind? You are a big John fan. Look, John is or was very talented but sometimes his writers are not so great, imo. What difference does it make if I like his Early stuff? I don't like Tinderbox - see I never heard it before but unlike you I have an open-mind (despite how i might sound) so I gave it a listen and Tinderbox is just OK melodically - the lyrics seem deep but really I'll take your word that it is very meaningful to you and not KITSCH.
11xzxzxz 2 years ago
Cont. to candelise I guess you are going to tell me the melody is better than this gem? In that case take a flying jump at a moving donut. Just kidding .. be cool.
11xzxzxz 2 years ago
Actually this song is one of my favourites as well. However, it's a little curious to be accused of not being too open-minded when you have proved ready to condemn what you had not even heard in the first place, good or bad.????
candelise 2 years ago
candelise - I did my homework and listened to that other song and read the lyrics. I just didn't like it much.
11xzxzxz 2 years ago
Therefore, those that do love those songs AND love the earlier material are having a better time of it then, aren't they?
candelise 2 years ago
Not necessarily, as I may know 100 times more good songs by other bands than you know. Or I I be having a better time in so many ways.
But it is irrelevant who is having the better time - we are just talking opinions and music but you are on some kind of plane ride in which you feel you must fly higher than me which is fun but don't go too near the sun.
11xzxzxz 2 years ago
Instead of expanding to other avenues of life and the wider musical universe, which is obviously for the birds, and keeping within the EJ/BT sphere, what I said, I feel is appropriate, end of.......Branch out if you must.
candelise 2 years ago 2
Obvious for the birds? Bernie T is not a very lyricist or sort of affected though lovely on this brilliant pop and cool to ask John to stutter for effect on this magnificent song . Tumbleweed Connection is my only real connection with Elton though his first 3 records were so fine - Madman across .. and first eponymous are fine too.
11xzxzxz 2 years ago
@11xzxzxz I guess any discussion over Elton and Bernies' songs are null and void with someone who does not like much of their material. I didn't know. Over 30 albums and three appreciated!! Oh well, those pictures you mentioned are very good, of course. What is 'not a very lyricist or sort of affected' mean, by the way? An over-edited reply or what?????
candelise 2 years ago
Candelise - Not really null and void .. some artists I think were just great for one song - and this is a perfect song to me. Perhaps you could be a little less concerned with my quantity and more with my "quality" ha. I like that you seem so intense and really care - me too!! Let's forget the lyrics and "affected" for now.. you can find them in dictionaries.
11xzxzxz 2 years ago
Candelise I really like 2 of your 3 favorite movies on your site that you mention - The Daytrippers and Goodfellas. Hey we agree on something - I feel it so clear in my ear so come down in time and I'll meet you half-way. Let's not fight anymore; no one is to blame. Unless it's me if you say so. Ha.
11xzxzxz 2 years ago 2
I love Tumbleweed Connection!!! I was a fan of his in my teenage age. Still love the eariler albums.
oldnag58 2 years ago 2
eltons best album sting is horrendus
ThePhillieschamps 2 years ago
Can someone explain this song to me? The meaning. It's so beautiful...I was wondering if it was appropriate for a wedding ceremony....strictly non-tradional wedding. Could this song have many meanings? Someone?
passionateaboutmusic 2 years ago
Not appropo for weddings - it's about lost love. This is a masterpiece. It could have many meanings. But I just looked to the last 2 lines " There are women and women and some hold you tight - While some leave you counting the stars in the night. Lost love never to be regained as The Four Tops "Only the Lonely" (OK a lot like marriage..ha) . Definitely Elton and Bernie's most hauntingly beautiful song off Tumbleweed Connections (2nd album) an it has a number of good songs.
11xzxzxz 2 years ago 2
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mrlg14 2 years ago
A simpler time, a summer of friends, riding a horse out the clover fields, dealing with the pains of adolescencw, and wanting to be grown. If only I'd known then what life would hold. I weep for the beaut y of those times and loss of innocence. Simplicity of song washes the complexity from the soul. Masterpiece
IBOver 2 years ago 48
I couldn't say it better i feel your words and the memories send chills through me. As I said in my comment life has flown by and the loves of my past live in this song. well said my friend.
delta9779 2 years ago 3
really nice words...
EJinthe70s 2 years ago
@IBOver
Running through the Sequoias with my love, young and free, our whole lives ahead of us.
Wistful and wonderful, in eternity we shall all be 15 again, forever.
ic751a55 1 year ago
@IBOver We learn life backwards, but we live it forwards..........
strangemale 1 year ago
@IBOver Your post begs us, join yourself and friends, prods us to find the ways we had, to create the same now. I'd dismissed Sir elton for years...then I found youtube and rediscovered his and Bernies genius. I will remember these songs now, as they are more important than they were back then. thanks for the great Post.
steele917 1 year ago
@IBOver Very touching words and obviously from the heart. I feel totally the same way. Take care now.
lmaololz1 1 year ago
Really amazing song. Evocative and stunning. He was right to leave out the piano....Sting should have done the same. First rate yet again Elton.
arfurlife 2 years ago
Sting did a great version of this song--Elton played the piano himself under an assumed name--the 2 rooms album had some great covers and some were just so awful
3953871 2 years ago
Beautiful.....
passionateaboutmusic 2 years ago
Hi, Can Someone please upload "Come Down In Time" from Lani Hall's Sundown Lady LP from 1972?
It's wonderful!
Thanks!
donaepcs 2 years ago
we all have our opinions.i don't disagree with you but you can't leave out the song "Friends",the song "Your "Song" from "Elton John", then your list minus "Captain" Sorry? I understood that Bernie wrote lyrics for 20 songs and Elton chose the best 10,wrote music to them.After the success up to that point,"YellowBrick" was the first album he used all the lyrics that Taupin wrote and used them. IT WAS HIS 1ST DOUBLE ALBUM,no?I can't put Crocidile Rock in the same class as "Friends"or "Your Song"
overnitesensations73 2 years ago