Cat Stevens - Sun C/79 Lyrics

Carley Simon!

all the happy trees are green because of bob ross

I've never known exactly what it has, but this song exudes IT. I believe Cat Stevens dominates my personal RocknRollgirl Hall of Fame.

nie wyswietla sie klip!!!

This album is so beautifully engineered! Guitars and bass and vocals, and the drums are so "alive."

ach te gitary (od 1:48 i 3:05!)!!! no i oczywiscie zachwycajacy głos CT!!!<3

The sound of life

This should be on the best of Cat

the lyrics are awesome

Que bela musica. Formou a minha adolescência. Rendo homenagens àquele que foi meu idolo nessa época

Just love this song brilliant could listen to it over and over again

Amazing sound!!!!!!

<3 <3 <3

great thing ! :-)

"I'm still havin' a good time" -- and then the music falls. Chilling.

Generally speaking, popular music in the 1960s and 1970s was (and remains) a high-water mark that has yet to be matched. I have no idea how young people put up with today's lousy music. Forgettable "melodies" (if you call them that) and mostly ghastly lyrics. It's not all bad, of course, but the good stuff really is an exception. Overall, the mediocrity is mind-numbing.

Actually, the popular music heard on today's radios does not rise to the level of mediocrity.

CS has SO many great songs, but unfortunately, they only play the same 2-3 mega hits. I highly recommend getting all his complete albums and you will find hidden treasures, I did. Thanks for posting! I had forgotten about this one.

My mother raised me on Cat Stevens, Laura Nyro, Judee Sill, James Taylor, and Carole King. Such incredible music. I really love Cat's Foreigner Suite. 18 minutes of Cat Stevens at his best !

You don't hear that kind of magic, mystical acoustic guitar anymore these days, plus those cool chords. I hate to say it, but you can hear the buzz in the music of that old seventies stuff.

I think of it as "Songs of Innocence and Experience".. Other people I've spoken to get uneasy when I explain that the "O very young" singer sang about getting a drug-addicted groupie pregnant...Whether they married, it's not sure.

+alissa mower clough Yes, what is the story behind this song? Did Stevens father a child with this woman?

This was the era of the "character songs," where the singer adopts a character and tells a short story. I love how the true nature of the character unfolds layer by layer. Like a Randy Newman song, the character is unconscious of how he's revealing himself to be totally self-absorbed, even loathsome. The seamy story he tells is more appropriate for buddies in a bar after too many drinks than to tell children how they came to be. He can only talk about one night of cheap sex with a junkie, then claims "thousands of hours" that he's looked in her eyes, but is still unable to say what color they were. In the end, almost as an afterthought, he blithely tells his sons that the truth was they were an accident of his having a good time. Then he adds insult to injury by admitting he's still just having a good time -- which would explain why it sounds as if he wasn't on hand for the boy's growing up and talks to them as if they're buddies in a bar, not his sons.. He never learned how to relate to them as his sons. They're strangers. That's the crashing ending of what starts out sounding like a passionate love affair -- a one night stand with a junkie he met after playing a gig, looking for a good time.

The truth unfolds slowly, as was the case with all the best character songs.

Takes me back to 1974 when I was 17. Thanks for posting.
Please listen to " Something to hide the writers".
Thanks.

What a gifted artist who turned his back  on all the beautiful/postive/timeless  music he composed to turn to Islam. His best album Buddah and the Chocolate Box.  Thanks for posting!

one of the best! And pipe Hammond, super

my favourite song from that album

I agree with you, Russ. This is about my fav from the album, too.

Mine too.

Me, too.

He had the muse in this… listen after 2:47 wow

0:08, 1:05, 1:44, 1:55, 3:50, etc, etc.  We are watching a master at his craft.  With a body of work that could stack up against the Beatles or Frank Sinatra.  He isn't perfect.  Butl, most girls think he is.  

@Chris Shaskin We both appreciate his talent. When he was 'oh, very young, look what he left us this time...' 

The lines that give this song a lot of character for me: "she was a junkie then" and "I was a pop star then."

HE WAS "OK" . THE IMPORTANT THING IS HE WANTS YOU DEAD AND WOULD DECAPITATE YOU IN A SECOND. IF YOU REMEMBER "WINK" RIGHT AFTER FOR THE SAKE OF SCIENCE

@Duff Gordon That is such an ignorant comment. Lose the hate buddy!

This was a true story. She was a "junkie" then. Anyone know if she got clean? The rumor that it was Jeanna Fine is false. Jeanna was a junkie too, yes, but her age doesn't match up to this girl's. Jeanna was a nanny for Todd Rundgren, btw, too.

He was like Elton back then; they could each make any lyric work in the early '70s.

For a while there they were neck and neck...and then it was like Cat just said, "Go ahead Elton, you take it...it's just not that important to me..."

i love it,recently i grabt it outof my vinyl collection and played along with it on my guitar.
and suddenly it was summer in the 70ties and i was so in love...one of the best songs of
katze,,cat,,stevens,and you are right,nobody knows it. a forgotten pearl....

Me to i love it. It's so unknown.

This is a great tune. It's one of my favorites of Cat Stevens.