Buckley, Tim - Once I Was Lyrics

Warum ist der an Drogen gestorben?

Short Lived

Killer. "Once I was a soldier..." I break down crying every time I hear this. Can hardly breathe. Coming Home. Will you ever remember me? Then he OD'd. And we do.Yes, we remember you Tim Buckley. "I fought on foreign sands for you." We do.

Thank goodness there is such beauty in some music and lyric. This. Song this artist is a treasure I listen to year after year.

When we were young

I'm reading Galadrielle Allman's book, "Please Be With Me: A Song For My Father, Duane Allman," and I just read where early after meeting Donna - his wife and Galadrielle's mother, he played and sang this song to her. I had to come listen to it because it's just been far too long since I went back to this place in my heart and in my memories. <3

I can't help but tear up...Viet Nam Vet.

Tim is my north. I will listen this man until my last day.

Tim is my true north

Often heard his name..now I know why...makes all others seem trivial..nice guitar too.

Beautiful... reminds me of something so bad ... can't think of it ... I hate when that happens!!

I heard this on Gregg Allmans final studio record Southern Blood ....this version is the same but so different from Greggs .....the are both great !

Love this song over 45 years, what a beautiful voice, never forget him....

Music is amazing. How can someone who died in 1975, many years before I was born can make feel so many emotions today. Impressive.

That is so true brother

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IS THIS LOSS?

Its better to tie than to burn with passion ...dear.....you are mine and mine only....but if you wish to leave let be...

Never heard of Tim Buckley until this year and totally got a little freaked out with the first line of this song. When I was a little girl I wanted to be a singer/songwriter and one of my songs started out the exact same way but it was "Once I knew a soldier" instead. Idk thought I'd share 👐.

https://youtu.be/vMTEtDBHGY4 My first introduction to Tim Buckley ..

Once I was a soldier who came home and lived the rest of my life feeling this song.

@Jack Wilson jack Wilson did Eric put you up to this. He's a cheeky bastard. Very original tell him that he was a coward and that's why he ran when there was fighting that other men had done. He will understand and tell him I still think he's a good for nothing yank. Cheers all the best to you.

@Jack Wilson No harm meant jack. I do have an eccentric friend who thinks it's funny to take the piss time and time again. My apologies Jack if your ever in Dingwall Scotland come buy and we will have a whiskey. I once knew a jack 59 years ago good chap real gentleman. All the best Jack cheers.

As an Italian American I was happy to just find out Tim was half Italian. Actually , he does kind of look like Felix Cavaliere in this photo.

Gregg n Don owns this...Southern Blood.

He's still here, he hasn't left dammit!

Great song

😎😄😏lovely!

Dear America: Letters Home Vietnam brought me here....love this song

This is a beauty. Dam God all the fucking wars!!!!!!!

When you haven't heard this song for a while, it hits you right in the chest and the soul. He was 20 when this came out. Compare this with what people that age, and much older - Sheeran, Bieber, Cyrus, et al - are coming out with right now. When did it all become so shallow?

I fell in love with this man when I was 1r years old. I wept when he passed. I listen to him now and feel the same intense stirring in my heart. I am 67 now and feel my heart of 16.

I love this song

I heard this song for the first time in the movie Coming Home with Jon Voight. In the film, John played a quadriplegic and this song played as he talked to a room full of young men who were bound for Vietnam. The song haunted me for years but I didn't know who it was and didn't know how to find out back then in the 70s. Such an exquisite song. Bless Tim and Jeff.

Questa è la canzone che preferisco sentire la voce di Tim Buckley mi porta una pace interiore

one of the best songs ever made
Sometimes I wonder, just for a while, will you ever remember me?

one of the best..Never forget Tim Buckley.. This song came out in 1967.
When ever I feel like walking into the sea, I listen to this instead.

27 people disliked this?! Clearly they have no soul...
Gets me every time.
one of the best songs ever made

this words.

27 people disliked this?! Clearly they have no soul...
And soon there'll be another
To tell you I was just a lie

Not until Florence and the Machine has there been another poet songwriter with a voice like Tim's. It took many years.

Underrated performer. A very haunting but beautiful song.

Triste storia di questo grande cantautore americano morto a 27 anni in circostanze misteriose stessa sorte è toccata al figlio Jeff Buckley morto anche lui a 27 anni per un annegamento

Beautiful poetry of a song

when music had heart

Sounds like galaxy 500

It was appropriate, considering this was at the time of Vietnam.

He was such a tragic figure & so was his son, but both of them left us with beautiful music that came from their heart & soul.

Do you know he appeared on an episode of "The Monkees "?

I wish this song was longer. This is too beautiful.

I will always remember you Tim Buckley - and your son Jeff Buckley too-

❤❤❤

what a legend

Ti m Buckley, thank you forever, with love beyond this mortal coil, Max Albertss. Love forever, universal and unconditional'

Just beautiful , blessed be.

I always get chills when listening to this song, always... truly a powerful song

Good voice
Pity about the West coast blurb which was so prevalent with these so called soul searchers who were so out of it most of the year

Here in 2019 thinking about the past?

Get the chills every time... Thanks Timity

I was 16 when I first heard this song and i’ve never forgotten it. His voice is like church

woahh that's so wild. i'm sixteen and i just listened to this song for the first time like you c:

@Alyzia Me too. I'm so happy to be able to listen to these masterpieces. Hope you'll have a nice life

@Marlon Brando church

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than his son

My god the genius of rhe 60s is awesome

essential

RIP Tim. What a great one you were.

"Varying In and about the promises
The cat had her eyes on nothing else
And I had my eyes on her
And again, today I laid down my defenses
And drove Into my Imagination"
Just to listen to this, feels like bliss. Can't even Imagine what It'd have felt to be In that time.

wtf was he like 20 when he wrote this song or what? dafuq?

I miss my grand dads.

Once I was....

"Coming Home" brought me here. I knew about his son Jeff. I had no idea who Jeff's father was Tim.

I never knew about this song until I saw that movie on Star Channel back in the day. I liked it so much, I made sure I recorded it on my little cassette player the next time it came on TV.

A timeless piece of emotional and artistic perfection. Utterly gorgeous and brilliant.

Still listening in 2018 ❤ what an amazing, talented, gifted artist. Breaks my heart he's not here...

I will always remember you Mr. Buckley. Your words are now my words to a beautiful man I loved, and didn't even know the depth until I lost him. Forever? Who knows. Charles David Penkova I love you baby, I wish that God is holding you like a mother holds her baby boy.

It's almost like he is predicting white genocide.

I find all this very poetic, especially the line "..search behind your eyes for you"

I became aware of this great song as it wraps up the movie 'Coming Home' in one of the more heartbreaking scenes you'll ever want to see.

hit the repeat button, jobs a good un

Incredible talent! Mind blowing!

完璧
名曲の中の名曲

RIP John McCain 😪

GET A GRIP YOU IDIOT, SEE THE TRUTH ABOUT MACCAIN TRAITOR ON THIS YOU TUBE CHANNEL.
ITS AN INSULT TO EVEN PUT HIS NAME ON THIS POST

a song like fills the void of the past & floods into the present...& stays with you after listening...following you all day like an apparition that you do not care to let pass by...

He has a way to sing, his intensity is so unique.
R.i.p. our friend and thanks for the gifts of your songs.

It hurts now too

My heart goes back in time of my service to this country

Popular music today has no soul. Not like this.

A beautiful man who , like many beautiful artists, checked out to early.

"to tell you I was just a lie......" man, what great lyrics!

This a song that reminds me of one person only. He played over and over again in our dorm room on an old record player that my parent"s gave to me. He flunked out and was later killed in Vietnam.

you can hear his soul :)

I can hear Eddie vedder in here

SO tender

Thanks for posting this. A lot of the comments are about the first time we discovered this song. Mine is a bit different. I first learned of this song as a poem. My much older brother took a class from Herman Hogan at Guelph University in which he used compilations created by the professor, called "Poetry of Relevance." He left those at our parents' house when he went back the next year and I found them. I now have a nearly 50 year appreciation of Tim Buckley, Phil Ochs, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and many others, as a result. When I first heard the song in "Coming Home" it was even better than I expected. What a talent.

Pure poetry! The older I get, the more this song makes sense to me. One of my favorite songs

Timelessness in song & voice. 🙏

One of the most beautiful songs ever. ❤

It’s Impossible not to fall in love with this song, yet it breaks my heart every time

Once I was a soldier!

Advanced in 67 and now

Takes me so far away every time. Such a strong song.

This song remembers me of when I was in traveling alone in Portugal three years ago. I was searching for myself and the meaning of life, both Buckley's helped me in this spiritual enlightenment. I decided there and then that I couldn't be the person I was, I still think this some days... Even tough i might have reached 22 years old. I still feel trapped in a numb purgatory where only music can make me feel, where people seem so banal that I only find strength in myself. "Stay strong, just listen to Buckley. Everything will be okay."

I love this song..And Tim Buckley..From the soundtrack of one of my all time favorites,' Coming Home '.

i don’t want to die young.