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  • i'm still in love!

  • guy on the left looks like Bob Ross. lol

  • what a beautiful singer/songwriter, it's a shame that follish and simple minded people can't just enjoy legendary great music as CAT Steven sang, and now Yusuf Islam sings. i love his music no matter the name... COA ...

  • 1:30

    

  • i love this track,especially when my man sings it to me x

  • @archie1alison that's a good man you got there. 

  • they played this on Heartbeat when Kate Rowan died, brought a tear to my eye i can tell you

  • Cat Stevens' music is what helped me bring my brother back from the deep, darkness of a coma and return to life. i will be forever grateful.

  • Thank you John Frusciante for bring me here!

  • Lovethis song had really forgotten how GREAT it is!!!!!!!!!!

  • what's the year?

  • Wonderfull!!

  • @Ukimix Right on!!!! AMEN!!! Love it!!!!!

  • Hes loosing all of intentions. What a great way to have

  • i wish i could sing this when i graduate and its going to be my last prsent for the one i loved most and i never could tell her that I LOVE HER :(

  • Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens.... unbelievably GIFTED.... BEST songwriter in the World Today.

  • I love with song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • I first heard this song on my sister's Teaser and the Firecat albumn back in 1971. It's been just about my favourite song ever since then. Beautiful.

  • This so breaks my heart ... for the one I'll never have. I love you so and I always will.

  • I am always thinking of you, but my words just blow away... Pure beauty!

  • This always reminds me of someone I loved dearly, I cry like a baby when I watch this.....Not many songwriters can reach these parts of the heart. Love you too Yusuf.

  • if i had a girlfriend this would be our song...no dout!!!unfortuanally... :( to you AH!

  • the main thing your missing here is that not all Muslims blew up the twin towers. that's like blaming all Japanese for pearl harbor, all Germans for the death camps, or all Indians for Custers last stand, the point is that i found that on all the sites promoting peace and Love there are people trying to cause chaos and grief. but at the sites promoting death and destruction there seems to be a lot of support. this makes no sense.

    jordan32902

  • one of my favourite songs :)

  • To My Husband; with love

  • a man a guitar a song,God bless.

  • im too much cying everytime i hear that song...i really love that song..

  • What a beautiful, gifted man.

  • Best live performance ever.

  • Best live performance - EVER!

  • This is beautiful!! A time machine, it defines my youth and takes me back to my first love. no one will ever match this singer/song writer!

  • Since 1972 I have loved his songs. I have all his records as vinyl.. all..I love his songs allways.

  • Where are you Cat??

  • Love song of the 20th century .But Cat where are you ?

  • It sure looks like he's singing a special someone the sadness seems too real to be just a perfomance.

  • where as I disagree with his choice of worshipping, being a strong minded atheist, I admire his desire to help his fellow man. If Cat was to choose any faith Islam is among the most peaceful. they are not a nation of terrorists. I have only, in the past year, truly begun to enjoy his work but it has given me pespective on humanity. I do not condone to war without just cause. The atrocity that had occured in Iraq and Afghanistan was injust and to the tens of thousands lost I'm very sorry

  • @weirdguy75 I love Cat Stevens and his music, I am not even remotely bothered by the fact that he is now a a muslim, but I do disagree with your comment on Islam they might have been a peace loving religion at one time but now they have an ever increasing number of hate filled followers and it has been happening for a good many years before Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • You are the greatest !!! You represent peace . Ignore the ugly posts and keep singing your music that we should all embrass in this screwed up country.

  • oo good yusuf islam good musician

  • Here is a musical genius at work! I ask is there anyone who can match this maestro's talent?

  • Here is a musical genius at work!

  • Why is it just one gentle man like Cat Stevens was blessed with sooo much talent? He deserves all the praise that came each and every time he created yet another piece of work, always bordering on the genius.

  • a truly beautiful love song

  • My favorite

  • I had forgotten what a beautiful, sensitive song this is. Thanks for writing it and singing it. It expresses all the emotion I have this night.

  • Haven't been able to stop playing this video in the last few days.....

    its such a haunting song.

  • I'd like to dedicate this song to a little 7-year-old girl who just drowned while playing in a lake in my community a few weeks ago. RIP Isabelle. Peace to her family :(

  • Amazing *.*

  • I think it was the tour after this when my mom took me to my first concert ever- which was to see Cat Stevens for my 14th birthday. I recall his keyboard player Jean Roussell singing high parts. He was such a big guy and our seats were pretty bad-- I thought he was a woman at first! But I loved all these songs.

  • Gentle man, gentle soul. Beautiful music that will always have a place in my day.

    I always find that this mans music helps me find my center amidst a crazy world. Thank you Yusuf/Cat for all of the joy.

  • beautiful....

  • Did my best, to do the same.

    

  • beautiful

  • A very Happy Birthday to my beloved Cat!! Blessings and peace always!!

  • absolutely beautiful, Cat Stevens ( Yusuf Islam) is one of our greatest singer/songwriters. I hope and pray that our Lord God will bless him, and hear his soul crying out for those who have hatred in their heart. This man walk away from money, fame to seek out life many roads to the truth, but as a christian i feel he has aways to go. but then again, at least he searches, most don't

  • i cried at 3:55

  • Does anyone else think he's really cute in this vid? Although even I think he's got a lil bit too much beard going on there! lol.

  • Possibly the most beautiful melody and lyrics ever. Can never listen to it without the tears welling in my eyes. The kind of love he is singing about hurts sometimes.

  • Isn't he the mos wonderful man in the world? I LOVE CAT STEVENS !!!

  • @cucurulito check out john frusciante's cover of it, just a couple easy chords but i cant remember what the are off the top of my head. it sounds pretty good

  • To all those I've loved and lost escpeially my children!

  • Please, someone tell me where can I learn this song in an easy way, i just love it but i'm not a great guitar player...though, i promise my best effort is someone helps me :)

  • @cucurulito it goes Em A D G. it's the easiest way : ) it wont let me send it you like but go to ultimate guitar tabs.com & look up the song

  • i feel very sorry for the 11 people who didn't care for this song. you'd have to be dead inside.

  • for P

  • Saw Cat many many moons ago at The Drury Lane Theatre or similar....your music had a pround affect on me Yousef....no one else ever has...................Go Cat !!!!!

  • this song....

  • When I chance to hear this song on the radio, or I place the record needle to "Teaser And The Firecat", instantly my breathing slows and I think of the lovers that I never had. Real yearning, you know? Not many musicians have been able to write lyrics (and guitar to accompany) so intense as to "transfer" those emotions to me. I like Cat Stevens, because of that.

  • thisi is just beautiful

  • This song brings back the beautiful music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

  • how can i tell you when i know i can't have you?

  • Such beautiful and powerful lyrics...................Make me smile and cry at the same time!!!

  • What a wonderful song... thanks for uploading. ;)

  • Cat Stevens is one of the greatest song writers and singers. His work is awesome! ;)

  • this song is just so... deep.

  • this is a theme to a fantastic/terrible time of my life... Beth

  • Love and peace to everyone...

  • To lifeforcenrg -- I know what you mean. I have heard it before, and I was crying by the middle of the first line! Nobody else I've ever heard can pack so much emotion into a song.

    The man is a genius.

  • absolutely beautful...cat stevens is amazing..lyrics, warmth, energy..always makes me smile

  • man.....i have never herd this song before...and it moved me so much i am crying !..never has a song done that to me... i guess it resonates with how my life is at the moment !...beautiful song

  • @lifeforcenrg wow i thought it was just me but i was also been moved to tears by this song and for the first time ever! its just beautiful and so deeply emotional.. Yusuf Islam is a legend and my hero :D

  • @arcticfox89 Same here. It is one of a set of songs that cause me to tear up uncontrollably. Growing up my parents, did this as a duet, and even when they did it, it was the same; magic.

  • As I see so many of these wonderful performances by so many artists I am struck by a single thought - that it is meaningless to compare any of them with any others. To do so misses the point of art entirely. Just enjoy, folks. Each performance on its own merits.

  • As I see so many of these wonderful performances by so many artists I am struck by a single thought - that it is meaningless to compare any of them with any others. To do so misses the point of art entirely. Just enjoy, folks. Each performance on its own merits.

  • Pls, listen the spanish version by compañia ilimitada... Como decirte cuanto te amo...

    In Cat's voice it would sound amazing in spanish

  • Such bittersweet memories - I met my future husband in 1972 and he dedicated this song to me. He made me feel so very special. After 28 years of marriage, I lost him. No reader he did not die, he found another. Beautiful, beautiful, lovely, sad but poignant song.

  • Ah! such bittersweet memories. It was 1972 and I met my future husband and he dedicated this song to me. I was made to feel the most special girl. After 28 years of marriage I lost him. No reader he did not die, he found another. Has anyone got a time machine? - Beautiful, beautuful song

  • Truly beautiful! - Ah! bittersweet memories of that innocent time in 1972 when my future husband made me the most special girl ever, when he dedicated this song to me. 28 years later, I lost him. No reader, he did not die just left me for another. Has anyone got a time machine? :-)

  • ...... and to think I was the only one that fell in love with this song when my future husband told me that this song will always remind him of me. Thanks Yusaf for making me like the most special person ever!! :-) Choking back tears here, as I lost my husband 28 years later (no he did not die, left me for someone else) Ah! bittersweet memories of those so oh innocent days of 1972. Anyone got a time machine?

  • I like that song writer!!

  • @travel20 cat stevens wrote his own songs, including this..

  • I like that song writer!!

  • Even as a tought metalguy this song touches me emotionally. It's something about his voice and emotions he puts into the music. As cat stevens was one of the artists i grew up with he is still one of my favorite non metal singers.

  • @NattHrafn im a 15 year old metal guy as in maiden, sabbath, priest, scorpions etc but im open minded and i love cat stevens with a passion.

  • by far the greatest love song I have EVER heard. And its meaning doesnt have to be just about a girl or a boy, or even a relationship, but anyone you miss with all your dearest heart.

    "i cant think of right words to say..."

  • Exceptionally superlative talent from an ordinary man with a beautiful gift ...

  • Being a young kid I was astounded by the interpretative strenght of his voice though I never had the chance to see him perform his show. The songs sounded perfect and I could listen to them for keeps in vinylo. Today, thanks to youtube I have the pleasure of watching and listenning this masterpiece and I am still surprised by the power of this artist. Naturaly himself he can mesmerize the toughest person with his talent.

  • One of my favorite cat songs !!

  • I HEAR YOU....I SWEAR I HEAR YOYU.

  • I Started to listen to Cat Stevens music About 40 years ago and never stopped. I am a musician (Piano & Guitar 38 years) and I have always and will always have an enormous love and respect for him and his music. By the way I'm a metal head - but I'll always stop to listen if Cat is playin

  • Best song from 'Teaser And The Firecat" album imo. Real class, in every sense of the word. He still stands up today, a giant among singer-songwriters really. He writes and performs with ease where others stuggle with it.

  • This song still makes me cry, even after 30 or so years since he first sang it. It's a truly beautiful song.

  • The God is in Cat stevens

  • This man changed music for me today.

  • love uuuuuuuuu brother yusuf may allah always be with uuuuuuu

  • This is my song to Sherrie.

  • Cat Stevens must have written this song about my feelings toward my sweeheart, Sherrie. I love her so much.

  • Cat is truly one of the most naturally talented singer/songwriters I've ever heard. It's hard for me not to imagine all the amazing material he would have put out the 30+ years he was gone. I know that doesn't matter because he lived his live according to his plan. I'm just glad he chose to re-enter the music world and I don't care what the reason was. He's a treasure.

  • I completely agree!

  • One can take all my records from me, but please leave me with this one.

  • Best song ever

  • I lost my first love and this song brings me to tears also

  • i cry at this also....but for different reasons.....

  • MrJtgee I am so sorry to hear that. People will tell you that that isnt time to get to know your child but they are wrong. I wish you and the rest of your family all the best.

  • The great love song of the 20th century ,but where are you Cat.

  • Pure beautiful song well sang by Cat the man.

  • Long, long , long before he turned into Yucef, he was Cat Stevens (when he wrote" and sang these songs. Either way, I love this man forever...

  • I play this everytime I think of my daughter Olivia who was taken from us far too early. She was only with us for 86 days 17 hrs and 42 minutes when she passed, but she left a lasting impact. When i hear this song i always cry, but I always feel closer to her as well.

  • She's with you, always will, watching your step and taking care of you. ^-^

  • So sorry to hear of your sad loss. Have you seen Billy Joels youtube video "Goodnight My Angel" and Stephen Curtis Chapman's "With Hope" - both reassuring songs of little angels now in Heaven. As a Christian, I believe Olivia's just waiting for you in God's presence. Best wishes

  • @mrjtgee I'm so sorry for your loss, this song also reminds me of someone I loved very much and lost......it's refreshing to see that someone else relates to his music and not his looks, the man can put into words what I feel but can't express

  • such pure emotion, cant fail to touch the heart of anyone with a soul

  • Happy new year.....love Cat's music....no Lady Gaga

  • Pure magic as ever...Thanks Cat/Yusuf for all the moments and inspiration...

  • Even after so many years Cat Stevens is unique. Wonderful... o beautiful gift to our ears and hearts. Just ... maravilhoso!

  • I love this song...and Cat Stevens!!!

  • Brilliant!

  • pure love

  • To my beloved,RIP.

  • A wonderful song, I,m always remember my

    youth when I,m listening this song maybe one

    of the most beautiful in the pop history . . .

    Niceto.

  • So original, so perfect, so live, so twenty something.

  • Yusuf Islam , i really can not stop listen to your songs , like every moment

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  • One of the most beautiful love songs ever recorded IMO. I love this song and Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam is such a FOX!

  • His face just melts my heart.

    he is so perfect, looks like an

    angel. Such a honey!

  • Yes....I so agree. I've felt that way since 1969.

  • I agree with you!

  • he is an angel :)

  • he is so beautiful, such a soft and humble soul,

    god bless him always

  • I so agree.  Perfect analogy.

  • nobody sings like this any more....

    so beautiful!

  • What a legend!

  • Could never get enough of his beautiful soul.

    What an amazing man!

  • my mum loves cat s

  • Still makes me cry, even though i have heard it about 10000 times. He has feelings deep enough to swim in.......wow such a soft and humble soul.

    Just love him

  • They dont write and sing them like that anymore...do they?

  • a very nice person

  • beautiful !

  • I love Cat Stevens beautiful rich expressive voice. If you have ever been deeply in love, this song says just what its like when you havent told them, cant be with them and you cant stop thinking about them. Its wonderful.

  • Shivers, everytime.

  • all of his songs give me the chills all over my body.

  • I'm always amazed that Cat''s live performances are every bit as wonderful, maybe more, than his studio work. What a voice for every generation.

  • this is exactly how i felt when i was 18 and was madly in love .

  • This beautiful song was used in a fantastic Dutch film I saw many years ago, it was about a young man dying of cancer in hospital. It was incredibly moving and I would love to see it again.

  • The lovely memories of Biba's Kenny Market, The Marque,Berick St. Those wet shiny streets. Chelsea Bridge at night, the pie stall.

    Old friends long departed.

    I need to hear this so at times.

    What life has brought, what life has become.

  • You really got me there. This song hits where it counts. When I first learned to play it I broke down in tears. And I wasn't even in love with anyone. Just alone and missing everyone I'd left behind.

  • I am speechless every time I hear this song as if I am hearing for the first time..awesome..

  • A beautiful song from a man with a beautiful soul.

  • He was so awesome In concert. Fantastic !! Not to mention how HOT he was..Damn.

  • Beauty comes in many forms, but I feel the first form must have been sound. Beautiful tones and words. This song brings tears to my eyes. I love it.

  • Islam,christian,catholic,athei­st or whatever,just the greatest love song!

  • Thank you for sharing this masterpiece!

  • Yes I agree. It is a moving, beautiful masteriece that describes the aching longing of love so profoundly.

  • dAYUM....i'M SO into the subltle words of Cat...Islam or not....Cat, you rock....singer/songwriter rock...you understand...I love you and your music...all of it...Islam or wtf ever....peace out

  • I agree MyzDefy. Who cares if he is Yusef. He will always be Cat Stevens to me..He is Brilliant. I had the pleasure of seeing him in Concert. One of the best Concerts I have ever seen.

  • Esta canción siempre me hará pensar en mi padre; fue él quien me descubrió a cat Stevens cuando aún era yo una niña...nunca gastaré completamente mis lágrimas con esta canción.... how can i tell you????

  • 3:37 part sounds so peaceful

  • It sends shivers down my spine and makes the hairs on my neck stand up. A BRILLIANT piece of work, Cat.

  • Beautiful description. Probably the cats most moving and heartfelt love song.

  • Lovely...from the 1971 programme. Such a beautiful song. The false starts making it even better.

  • wonderful..all i can say!. such a beautiful song.

  • Such statements nowadays are even sadder, because it shows such a lack of knowledge and misunderstanding about the man and his life.

  • This song inspired me to learn guitar. Three years later, I am still playing and have started performing. Thank you Mr. Islam for changing my life.

  • you cannot say anything about this man,he changed his life

  • he is a legend..

  • love the words

  • thank you

  • entonces es casi casi perfecto....(porque para mi es demasiado genial)

  • i love him so much, but he's clearly a perfectionist

  • Obsessive instrument tuning is perhaps a sign of perfectionism, but in this context I think he would be wrong not to do so, as improper tuning would completely ruin the song for resale purposes - who wants to buy a live recording of an out-of-tune song?

  • hey, far be it from me to ever criticize yusuf. just thought it was kinda cute. was this for a t.v. show or a live recording?

  • So hard to pic a fave , but this is up there

  • i love this song. it is touchy.