Tim Buckley - Once I Was (Live'68)

Too bad the song is out of sync with the video. It ruins it for me.

@SEEVIEGEENIE Same here!!! i was watching that movie in class today and i thought this song was awesome, so i wrote down a line from it and found it. Great song.

All these years, stuck in the back of my mind was this beautiful song along with those sad and painful eyes of our "brothers" suffering in Nam.

Thanks Barbaralinn for sharing! I never met him, but his music affects me deeply also... goes right to my Soul.

Tim is a most BRILLIANT singersongwriter/musician!
One of the greatest!

Yes, that was incredible wasn't it. I already knew the song well but its appearance in that film was the most poignant moment in a film of unbearable poignancy throughout.

it really sucks when so much greatness and potential goes down the tubes..before
it comes to its rightful peak. O love is perhaps the greatest emotion to experience and yet can bring you so much
sadness in your lifetime. It does not'seem'
right yet it happens much too often...

"it really sucks when so much greatness and potential goes down the tubes..before
it comes to its rightful peak"

Yes, but it would be difficult to argue against Tim Buckley reaching a "rightful peak" on each and every record he made. He peaked continuously!

It is so sad that he passed away so young. His music is so hauntingly beautiful.