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A real live lover, could have been a book.
I could have been a signpost, could have been a clock
As simple as a kettle, steady as a rock.
I could be
Here and now
I would be, I should be
But how?
I could have been
One of these things first
I could have been
One of these things first.
I could have been your pillar, could have been your door
I could have stayed beside you, could have stayed for more.
Could have been your statue, could have been your friend,
A whole long lifetime could have been the end.
I could be yours so true
I would be, I should be through and through
I could have been
One of these things first
I could have been
One of these things first.
I could have been a whistle, could have been a flute
A real live giver, could have been a boot.
I could have been a signpost, could have been a clock
As simple as a kettle, steady as a rock.
I could be even here
I would be, I should be so near
I could have been
One of these things first
I could have been
One of these things first.
I rated it 10. But I'm also open to the notion that not everyone shares my taste in music.
Hmmmmm....maybe they thought 1 meant #1 as in the best. Doubtful, but not everyone is as astute as we are! Take care.
Can’t hear this without thinking of the scene in the movie Garden State.
HI! I will have to find that movie. Thanks
Nick Drake - how did I never know about you until RP? Your music is sublime, yet disturbed, somewhere between happy and sad without being either. I think your early death adds a weight to your music that wouldn't be there otherwise, and I'm sorry to say, this sadness does make your music better. Because who really wants 100% happy and only happy music all the time? I'm sorry your death ended your physical days on earth - and I for one and I'm sure many more of us RPsters can hear your music when we see the simple things in life. Birds chirping, flying in the clouds, floating, then breaking apart, like trees losing their leaves, beautiful decay, harmony in nature not needing anything we (as in humankind) can give it, just taking moments from here and there and enjoying the little bits of amazement all about us. Here's to your music surviving time.
Long Live RP!
Beautiful. Thank you. This is a fabulous, beautiful song and most likely the first time I have heard it. So glad I did.
Nick Drake - how did I never know about you until RP? Your music is sublime, yet disturbed, somewhere between happy and sad without being either. I think your early death adds a weight to your music that wouldn't be there otherwise, and I'm sorry to say, this sadness does make your music better. Because who really wants 100% happy and only happy music all the time? I'm sorry your death ended your physical days on earth - and I for one and I'm sure many more of us RPsters can hear your music when we see the simple things in life. Birds chirping, flying in the clouds, floating, then breaking apart, like trees losing their leaves, beautiful decay, harmony in nature not needing anything we (as in humankind) can give it, just taking moments from here and there and enjoying the little bits of amazement all about us. Here's to your music surviving time.
Long Live RP!
Beautiful.
A total tragedy..
The interplay between the piano and the guitar is exquisite.
And the bass…
I rated it 10. But I'm also open to the notion that not everyone shares my taste in music.
Nick Drake - how did I never know about you until RP? Your music is sublime, yet disturbed, somewhere between happy and sad without being either. I think your early death adds a weight to your music that wouldn't be there otherwise, and I'm sorry to say, this sadness does make your music better. Because who really wants 100% happy and only happy music all the time? I'm sorry your death ended your physical days on earth - and I for one and I'm sure many more of us RPsters can hear your music when we see the simple things in life. Birds chirping, flying in the clouds, floating, then breaking apart, like trees losing their leaves, beautiful decay, harmony in nature not needing anything we (as in humankind) can give it, just taking moments from here and there and enjoying the little bits of amazement all about us. Here's to your music surviving time.
Long Live RP!
Beautiful tribute lizk. ND is a true musical genius with us now through his artistry and his luminously bordered shadows thank goodness!
Now I understand the theory of stars(in the sky). They are long since dead and yet appear, ever so brightly! Somewhere out there in the Milky Way there is a star named "Nick" !
c.
Nick Drake: could’ve been 😕
Was.
You just made a tear fall down my cheek.
Just came across this comment and am touched by how poignant this simple message is and I completely relate to the sentiment. I continue to be confounded by my personal ignorance of this talented individual while he was active and alive. I now treasure his legacy but that is a tiny consolation to the torment he must have personally endured and I wonder if this song represents some self-therapy. Truly our loss at what he might have created during a longer career.
could have been one of these things first
Now I understand the theory of stars(in the sky). They are long since dead and yet appear, ever so brightly! Somewhere out there in the Milky Way there is a star named "Nick" !
You just made a tear fall down my cheek.
Nick Drake - how did I never know about you until RP? Your music is sublime, yet disturbed, somewhere between happy and sad without being either. I think your early death adds a weight to your music that wouldn't be there otherwise, and I'm sorry to say, this sadness does make your music better. Because who really wants 100% happy and only happy music all the time? I'm sorry your death ended your physical days on earth - and I for one and I'm sure many more of us RPsters can hear your music when we see the simple things in life. Birds chirping, flying in the clouds, floating, then breaking apart, like trees losing their leaves, beautiful decay, harmony in nature not needing anything we (as in humankind) can give it, just taking moments from here and there and enjoying the little bits of amazement all about us. Here's to your music surviving time.
Long Live RP!
Thank you for such a heartfelt response
I wish I was a hacker so I could give this a 20 rating.
Nick Drake - how did I never know about you until RP? Your music is sublime, yet disturbed, somewhere between happy and sad without being either. I think your early death adds a weight to your music that wouldn't be there otherwise, and I'm sorry to say, this sadness does make your music better. Because who really wants 100% happy and only happy music all the time? I'm sorry your death ended your physical days on earth - and I for one and I'm sure many more of us RPsters can hear your music when we see the simple things in life. Birds chirping, flying in the clouds, floating, then breaking apart, like trees losing their leaves, beautiful decay, harmony in nature not needing anything we (as in humankind) can give it, just taking moments from here and there and enjoying the little bits of amazement all about us. Here's to your music surviving time.
Long Live RP!
Wow. What a truly outstanding comment.
Call it morbid curiosity, but I would like to meet anyone who rated this a '1'. It would have to be in a public place and I would wear sunglasses.
Consider this part of frequency rating histogram as statistical noise.
this one?
Yes. :-) Marvelous album, from "Into my arms" to "Far from me". Full circle.
Paul Harris. Shades of Nicky Hopkins.
As my mum would say "Dinnare fash yersell Lerxst, ye like whit ye like".
Plus I like him enough for both of us.
"I've always done things on a very instinctive basis, I think brains have gotten in the way of a lot of good things."
- Keith Richards
Wish I could afford that box set today. I've seen it for as much as $1000.
this one?
For now.
I was noticing that too, then I saw your comment.
That may not be a good idea, given their unfortunate ends.
But yeah, I agree with you, and I'd add Jeff Buckley to the list. Beautiful and tragic.
c.
I would be
I should be
Sorry haresfur....I'm gonna mess with that ratio of yours as I just bumped my 9 to a 10. :-)
I'm amazed how seemingly simple this song is and yet it conjures up a lot of complicated emotions. And much cheaper to listen to this song for 4:46 than spend time on a shrink's couch, eh? PEACE
Nick Drake - how did I never know about you until RP? Your music is sublime, yet disturbed, somewhere between happy and sad without being either. I think your early death adds a weight to your music that wouldn't be there otherwise, and I'm sorry to say, this sadness does make your music better. Because who really wants 100% happy and only happy music all the time? I'm sorry your death ended your physical days on earth - and I for one and I'm sure many more of us RPsters can hear your music when we see the simple things in life. Birds chirping, flying in the clouds, floating, then breaking apart, like trees losing their leaves, beautiful decay, harmony in nature not needing anything we (as in humankind) can give it, just taking moments from here and there and enjoying the little bits of amazement all about us. Here's to your music surviving time.
Long Live RP!
I too was late to Nick Drake. Years ago I found a boxed set of ND on eBay and it was a good decision. I often put the whole set on shuffle play.
Nick Drake - how did I never know about you until RP? Your music is sublime, yet disturbed, somewhere between happy and sad without being either. I think your early death adds a weight to your music that wouldn't be there otherwise, and I'm sorry to say, this sadness does make your music better. Because who really wants 100% happy and only happy music all the time? I'm sorry your death ended your physical days on earth - and I for one and I'm sure many more of us RPsters can hear your music when we see the simple things in life. Birds chirping, flying in the clouds, floating, then breaking apart, like trees losing their leaves, beautiful decay, harmony in nature not needing anything we (as in humankind) can give it, just taking moments from here and there and enjoying the little bits of amazement all about us. Here's to your music surviving time.
Long Live RP!
Wow :o) thank you and 2nd Long Live RP!
Nick Drake - how did I never know about you until RP? Your music is sublime, yet disturbed, somewhere between happy and sad without being either. I think your early death adds a weight to your music that wouldn't be there otherwise, and I'm sorry to say, this sadness does make your music better. Because who really wants 100% happy and only happy music all the time? I'm sorry your death ended your physical days on earth - and I for one and I'm sure many more of us RPsters can hear your music when we see the simple things in life. Birds chirping, flying in the clouds, floating, then breaking apart, like trees losing their leaves, beautiful decay, harmony in nature not needing anything we (as in humankind) can give it, just taking moments from here and there and enjoying the little bits of amazement all about us. Here's to your music surviving time.
Long Live RP!
Very Nicely Said!
Nick Drake - how did I never know about you until RP? Your music is sublime, yet disturbed, somewhere between happy and sad without being either. I think your early death adds a weight to your music that wouldn't be there otherwise, and I'm sorry to say, this sadness does make your music better. Because who really wants 100% happy and only happy music all the time? I'm sorry your death ended your physical days on earth - and I for one and I'm sure many more of us RPsters can hear your music when we see the simple things in life. Birds chirping, flying in the clouds, floating, then breaking apart, like trees losing their leaves, beautiful decay, harmony in nature not needing anything we (as in humankind) can give it, just taking moments from here and there and enjoying the little bits of amazement all about us. Here's to your music surviving time.
Long Live RP!
As my mum would say "Dinnare fash yersell Lerxst, ye like whit ye like".
Plus I like him enough for both of us.
Strangely he's like any contemporary. artist.
How on earth he'd escape for good the ol times.
wabx_air_ace wrote:Interesting post. From left field, but interesting, nonetheless.
Interesting fact.
Then again... at least I finally got exposed to ND. So, maybe ... thanks VW?
Don't feel too bad about that; the first exposure for the majority of his present-day fans (in the U.S. at least) was that ad. He didn't get a lot of airplay when he was alive - and he died about forty years ago.
Amen to that!
The true definition of melancholy..
While Nick was obviously a genius I don’t think we should under estimate the contribution made to Joe Boyd who seemed to have taken the role as the house producer for Island Records folk stable in the late 60s. Two genius working together don’t always create a work of genius but in this case they most certainly did. What a legacy this pair have left us!
Have u ever heard Belle and Sebastian's song called The State I Am In?They are both spectacular songs that have lot in common...
Nick Drake's songs are greatness.
I missed him too. But then, where COULD you hear him play? Certainly never ever on any radio station in my shit for brains town.
In my friend Randal's basement, on his crappy record player, proving that love of music can transcend technological limitations.
I be here... love this song... hope you are having a marvelous time right this minute...
Romeo and Juliet
Act 2, Scene 2:
JULIET:
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.
Whisper that in my ear please...........
Then again... at least I finally got exposed to ND. So, maybe ... thanks VW?
You could have been exposed to Nick Drake before VW, or you could have been exposed after, one of these things first -
Here is a documentary that you might enjoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrmR_F5XgwQ
Then again... at least I finally got exposed to ND. So, maybe ... thanks VW?
Wherefore art thou?
I be here... love this song... hope you are having a marvelous time right this minute...
Romeo and Juliet
Act 2, Scene 2:
JULIET:
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name,
And for that name which is no part of thee
Take all myself.
Just came across this comment and am touched by how poignant this simple message is and I completely relate to the sentiment. I continue to be confounded by my personal ignorance of this talented individual while he was active and alive. I now treasure his legacy but that is a tiny consolation to the torment he must have personally endured and I wonder if this song represents some self-therapy. Truly our loss at what he might have created during a longer career.
I am only learning about him today. Thank you for your words.