Cockney Rebel - Understand Lyrics

Steve is the best. Every album is great. Why dont people see it?

they need to hear it not see it !

true@nick stay

Genius
From a time when music was music

If we could just put the words together ~ the world would understand . . . .
~ what this great man really means to us ~
## like the the hill & hibiscus flowers ~

great keyboard solo!!

anyone who who listens to this mans poetry and music are afichinordos of a more deepfull meaningful questional existstonce. always been s ... at spellin.

素晴らしい名曲！

Am 58,and when I want to chill out.this does it for me.the whole album

This synth solo is unreal

Why is this man so overlooked?

A timeless artist of the highest order...Steve Harley,so charming,so original.

One of my favorite albums of all time. Thank you.

Same here, Paul. My dad bought me this album for my birthday, 15 then, and played it on the phone for the first time, this song. Epic, my schtick

Saw Steve just before Christmas in the beautiful St George's Hall in Liverpool. What a fantastic venue. I've followed SH since 1973 saw him many times and it was at this concert I first heard him sing this song, my favourite. it was amazing. SH just goes on and on and long may it contiinue.

Saw Steve in an acoustic trio and they did this song proud. Great night, great crowd who all came to see a great man

So atmospheric. Just love it. Hero Harley!

I had to order import the 70/s what a time to be young happy times

EXCELLENT SONG!!

This song always sends shivers up my spine. If Lennon had composed this, it would be more popular than "Imagine". It is that good

Probably thee best album BUT, Best years 🤔🤔🤔🤔

What a fantastic record this is been a fan since I heard judi teen keep it up Steve

This song is beautiful!

Get goose bumps on the intro every time. Love this song and album.

timeless flight is for me, the best album of Steve Harley and one of my old time favorites.i remember seing Steve and Cockney rebel in cascais in 1979 and was a great concert.one of my favorite musicians ever.

you are so right rui

Fantastic what a beautiful love song wonderful steve

Nice to hear. My greatest influence was John Peel, hence my eclectic music taste. If you ever get a chance to see Steve Harley, you must. I saw him in Birmingham a couple of years ago where he played his first two albums in their entirety, track by track....he's still awesome. 

The biggest influences on my musical taste are my two Uncles, Martin and Terry. My uncle Terry s sadly no longer with us but he gave me so much knowledge and encouraged me to listen to ALL types of music. When he passed, I received a big part of his record collection, this was in it. I can't hear this without thinking of Terry and how he opened the musical eyes of a 10 year old boy (Now 46).  Thank you for posting.

always thought him a one off genius ever since i saw him in 1973 complete with boiler suit eye lash and bowler,in dunstable civic centre .

you got that right Dave!!!!! beautifull music 1LP OneofaKind!!!

one of my favorite albums of all time.i must have listen to this album more than 1000 times...what a great decade for music the 70´s.saw them playing live in 1980 in my country, great show.

SH is enough to make anyone fall in love with music

Sang this to my first girlfriend in 76 ( I was 15 ) she laughed she had all the emotional and intellectual content of a fungus , just want to thank Steve for imparting such wisdom and beautiful songs to my youth , I feel his personality , words and uniqueness impressed itself onto part of my own psyche to which I am eternally grateful....

Same thing happened to me...sang to a girl I was crazy about ..she laughed in my face...crushed....but in retrospect I know she was an amoeba

One of my BEST ever LP's ever. Sorry but I'm really old and this guy kept me off drugs !! Why, coz his music was enough ! Honestly, my mates thought I was on something coz I love the 'Rebel'....What a lot of idiots!,, Is this guy not a genius ???

TRUE...SO TRUE....

steve harley and rebel never got the reqiqnition they deserved

I certainly love them!

Im 51 now,music is my life,since i started using youtube.My tastes are so varied now,Modest mouse,Flaming Lips,Mercury Rev,Pj Harvey,Agnes Obel,My Morning Jacket,Fleet Foxes,Love and many more.Its funny because a lot of the comments on my Fav bands sites,are people been superior because they were into the band first.Now im on home ground,nobody was a steve harley fan before me.He was my first love,and i still remember all the lyrics to every song.Nice to revisit.

Typo(s):1) capital s for Smith. 2)...off the stage...

used to play this on 12 string in central park. Patti smith once threw a quarter in my guitar case. Photograph of that in July 1977 issue of Rock Scene. Patti was wearing a neck brace prescribed by a physician because she fell of the stage the night befour.

What is the right whord!!Help mee..

I've got goosebumps listening to this, have not heard it for years but it is still so beautiful!

Fenomenal solo-ul la sintetizator pentru acele vremuri !

an undderated album.. one of his best...

one of the best albuns ever writen in the history of music, and this music is amazing,i saw steve live, back in 1980 in my country,i still have the ticket,fantastic concert all the musicians where great.

beautiful, this song is about sacking the original members of Cockney Rebel.

Amazing! After all these years!You would understand!To all the band!Amazing for ever!

@interbarp0 Hi, Everything Changes is now uploaded.

salamanda9 . Since you uploaded "Understand", can you please upload "Everything changes" from the same Album? Thanks.

34 years later and still can't hear this song without tears in my eyes. The most beautifull solo of an electric keyboard. They played this song life on the Dutch tv and it was brilliant.

My favorite album of all time I was 19 and this record was always on my stereogram l ol. In 1976. Fook Bowie steve was the man!!!

BOUGHT THIS ALBUM ON CHRISTMAS EVE 76 AND HEARING IT NOW, CAN ALMOST FEEL THE MOMENT. MAGICAL TIMES. YOU UNDERSTAND?

i been looking for this for ages silly me couldnt rember what it was called thanks for up loading

This is one hell of a song! Thanks for uploading it!! :)

grew up with this track...brilliant

I totally agree.... :)