Tim Buckley - I Woke Up Lyrics

ONE OF THE BEST UNDER RATED MUSICIANS EVER...GENIOUS,IMMENSELY GIFTED FROM A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL)...Hauntingly Beautiful

It's a shame there are no good quality live albums from this period in his career. He was making his best music in 1970!

There is a live album of 1968 performances due out this month

Holy WOW this is marvellous ¬ i still have all the vinyl … two of starsailor but seeing Tim and these guys performing live is brilliant… what a voice!

I can’t express enough thanks for this upload. I love Tim, and I love you.

Quality music, Tim had such great soulful vocals!

Lee Underwood is simply amazing.

The God of voice...

Wondering if anyone knows exactly Where this performance happened? City, venue... and/or the exact day or month? I'm a Tim Buckley fanatic, I just want to know everything. Tried Googling but can't find this info.

He's not high . He's concentrating on his tone Quality and the tricky intervals that he's singing .

he was the original freak folker and the BEST!

Tim Buckley always had a very "Expressive" voice...probably more than any other singer of his era. I perceived that he must be hearing these tunes in his head, as no on else ever could...and he sang them beautifully. I'll admit: "Starsailor" was just a bit too "Out There" for me, but I always appreciated a man who wanted to take a Chance in his career. He never was cut from "commercial" cloth.

It's a rap session

Could anyone double-check this transcription of the lyrics of this live version?

I woke up, open at you
Would still be there
When the song, the song of the town
Was calling you far
From my dream
Far from where I was born
To yield, secretly

For you, now darling
All the tides will change
For you, now darling
All the time will change
Your wings and mine
The world is yours

Sometimes I love you because
You nailed the change
Here in the talk, the talk of the town
I was singing your name with mine

I was born, born to know
Your ways, secretly
And ride the tides
The tides, the time
And change this world
A little while, with you
For you, and me

I woke up, open at you
Would still be there
When the song, the song of the town
Was calling you far
From my dream
Far from where I was born
To give, secretly

For you, now darling
All the times would change
Your ways are whirling
And the tides and time will change
For you, your peace

Pure soul. Thanks, this is one of the most beautiful things on YouTube,

who does a fat line of something not realizing it's heroin? And it musta been a very fat line. It's rather stupid. This music sucks too. I do not care about this a hole. His music SUCKS.

If he had just done a fat line of heroin, it would have been audibly noticeable in his voice!
Just curious, did you listen to the whole thing to come to your opinion of Tim, and his music?

I do a version of the River by Tim Buckley, https://soundcloud.com/liam-drew-2/the-river Check that out. Great to see him in an interview. Delicate and complicated soul and his music also express it,

Damn, This is so good. Take my money. What a talent Tim is. What great chemistry between all the band members.

damn i want that green shirt!

Damn, that dude was working the hell out of that Telecaster. Bravo

Grand compositeur et grand interprète...

bravo! bravo!

I had a dream in which he tells Tim about songs his son Jeff, enjoyed it that he told them about Hallelujah, Grace. Then I woke up and saw that I was in his house. I would no longer wake up, I would like to stay there.

+Joanna Skrzypek Go to the River.

@***** And what if I did?? Why are you always trying to start shit huh?? Got a fucking death wish hero??

I had a dream where I met Tim, it was in a very quiet bar in an empty street during a bright day and he said to me he was busy doing Gospel music now. It had a nice feeling to it but he was a little surprised I was there, almost as if he shouldn't have really talked to me but he did. Strange, I am not a religious person. I also met Steve Marriott (Small Faces) in a dream after seeing a Small Faces tribute band, again in a dreamy quiet bar. When I spoke to him he tried a magic trick on me to try to make me think he was not there. I snapped out of the hypnotic spell and began speaking to him, at which point he chatted to me. Again, he was still producing music in the Afterlife but I cannot recall the specifics. Two musical geniuses. I hope tonight I can get to meet Jimmy or Frank. .-) Zzzzzzz

why is starsailor impossible to buy?

https://www.amazon.ca/gp/offer-listing/B00C4B1ZJ8/ref=sr_1_1_twi_lp__1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1467686839&sr=8-1&keywords=starsailor

Go back to China . . .oh sorry dude, there is already too much garbage over there.

bilisnegra thankyou , thats very helpful :)

great clip. It really shows he empathy between Tim and Lee Underwood (lead guitar on all of Tim's albums except the last couple of funk ones).

I can change this world in a little while....tq

I can certainly see where Jeff Buckley got his penchant for haunting major-minor chord changes and and incredible vocals.  Great stuff, this.  

Ain’t that the truth!

Jeff barely knew him according to the bios I read…

dis sum' good shit

Beautiful!

he's completely stoned.

What makes you say that?

the date

And who cares? If you can make music like this when you're stoned, bless you.

Oldteacosy Teacosy i think most bands in the 70s took something before a gig. It was normal, that was the zeitgeist!

all artists experiment. thats not his best but he has the true artists courage to just try.

Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean that's it's anything short of incredible.

Let's just say this isn't your best analysis.  :)

This is a masterpiece.

its shite.

You must be tone deaf. Sad!

Don't worry. A few years down the road he'd do something more to your taste...maybe something like Wanda Lu.

and putin at the guitar

Is that George Bush on bass?

yes, he is. before 9/11

you had to go there, now all I see is dumpy George jamin in his striped pants.

Looks more like Vlad Putin!

And Robert De Niro on
trumpet X)

No but he's wearing george bush senior's trousers

Is that Motorhead Sherwood from the Mothers, on trumpet?

apollomemories73 Yep... Sure is!

I wondered too if that wasn't someone from the Mothers but I was thinking Bunk Gardner.

PJ Anderson it is in fact Bunk

Don't ever tell my to stop talking about Jeff Buckley. Ever.

Dude, I used to drink waaaaaay too much.

You mean tim ?

Jeff Buckley is this man's son.

A Tree Dude I feel ya... Trust me. I can't remember half the comments I leave.

It was probably sailing stars.

This is intense and beautiful and oh so very heartfelt and genius and all that...but I don't want to go there. Boys Boys Boys by Sabrina is more my style.

What INCREDIBLE voice... thanx 4 vid friend.

really .........not greetings was his album and surrender his legacy

dat band chemistry

Wow how cool

the fact that this is live just makes this an even greater testimony to the musical brilliance of Tim Buckley

Starsailor is his masterpiece and his true legacy.

even the guitar cable is cool in this video.

A relevant and vital counterpoint. Well played.

Very rare footage of Buzz Gardner on trumpet.

this performance is simply delicious, hourray!!

I'm a musician AND played with jeff. Please don't make comments on his behalf. Hopefully, since they were never together as father and son even when they were both alive, they are making the most beautiful music together now. Peace

Starsailor was just too way out there, in my opinion.....where was his Miiiiiind?????

love tim buckley but not this

who's we? Any idiot who can't "embrace them both" should just stop listening to them both to begin with. Just listen to them both it's not fucking rocket science. If you are having a hard time "embracing them both" you might just consider getting a life and not listening to either one of them.

Musicians always die under cloudy circumstances.

tim at his vocal peak

Uktrayf Unfortunately, he probably died BEFORE ever reaching his vocal peak.

@Jordan Delorme he peaked at 22

um jeff actually took heroin, he admitted in an interview, but how is that relevant to them as musicians?

theres another guy called Tim Buckley who makes a really bad web comic, totally unrelated to this guy

He was amazing; a fantastic musician and singer so was his son.

It's a 12-string. You're seeing two strings as one.

Does he have unusually heavy strings on his guitar?

He did use heavy gauges indeed

My poetry teacher turned me on to Tim. Thanks go out to both dudes.

So I wonder how it all worked out for him: did she/they wake up too?

@andrew19vato ahhh u mean his wife having misscarriages right?

@CeleryMan3 miscarriages? what do u mean??

@CeleryMan3 his webcomic? what is that??

much better than the album version in my opinion

And a truly unique album.

One of the truly great voices.

apparently Tim hated TV performances and was routinely rude or noncommunicative to the hosts... this might be one of the last tv gigs he got... cool that he got to play some Starsailor on tv.

@Ogumomaru In his earlier albums Tim had his lyrics written by a friend, but he "wrote" the music himself.
I don't know if Tim had proper vocal training..

@bosszeroboss I'm the biggest Jeff Buckley fan you might find in my continent, but I can assure you Tim had better abilities in singing than Jeff. Jeff is one of the best in the world but Tim is above him in range.

@MMesh89 That's because Jeff didn't take proper singing exercises.
In his bio it says he was devoted to be a guitar man, but eventually he sang the covers at Sin-É revealing his talented voice.
Dunno if Tim took proper singing classes or exercises but Jeff just sang like he thought would be correct.
Also, Tim had a songwriter.

9 are deaf

@subsamadhi It's pretty obvious Tim had the wider range (he could go much lower than Jeff, and in the bootlegs he hits insanely high notes, LIVE). Also, more important, Jeff's high notes, especially live, sound a little squeezed and low notes raucous, while Tim's are very full and open, like he could hit them easier, he sings them with a more open throat. They're both great singers, hard to pick a favorite (even though as a songwriter Tim was way better), but Tim was better technically.

this is grate!

Why does the album starsailor have to cost so much fucking money

WHAT A REMARKABLE DEPTH OF FEELING AND EMOTION ENTWINED IN A VOICE OF BRILLIANT SUNLIGHT AND TRUTH

Already when he was 19 and performed live in London (as on other clips) he had this haunting voice. It is what I was smitten by in the late eighties when I heard him for the first time in Surrender.

I grew up in the Netherlands and do not recall him as being known there, even though I listened to all popular music from the late sixties onwards.

This never ceases to surprise me. Although I am grateful that I was not hooked on him when he was alive... It's bad enough now. ;)

a very very strange song...

@YouLikeBosch All you people talking about age on here don't get it at all. Most musicians start very young and then keep going if they don't kill themselves or get killed by something else. Mick Jagger is still alive because of a lot of dumb luck. Jim Morrison died in a bathtub. Tim Buckley never was in to drugs, but then OD's anyway. Age has NOTHING to do with any of that. It's all about choices and chance really.

@YouLikeBosch Julius Caesar didn't conquer anything until he was over 40. Then again, John Lennon said life begins at forty in an interview and was killed within a month (but for him I'd argue that wasn't the case). Depends on yourself/destiny whether life's over or not, not some litmus test of other's accomplishments.

Can you believe he's only like 23 in this video? I'm friggin' 24. Life's over.

This is the third day in a row I get this one into that playlist I listen to in through the small hours...

Tom is so much into it in this performance, the composition is so haunting, and the band plays so subtle, so perfect. LORD WHAT MORE COULD YOU EVER ASK???

One of the greatest vocalist of all time... my opinion.

I'm not feeling the kooky music, but I guess it's a jazz thing, to go against the grain. Seems like two different songs playing at the same time.

Man, what a waste to put that music next to that amazing voice....

Tim's voice was way deeper than Jeff's, must be because they had different hair to each other.

@subsamadhi Well only very big similarity is it seems like pretty much everyone of their songs has a haunting feeling to it, as beautiful as it may be, and even if it isn't their song. It's just something in their voice, like when Jeff sings Hallelujah, and Tim sings Dolphins, but really that is about the only similarity, well and the huge range, but the voice is not really that similar sounding either.

Lee Underwood was such a brilliant guitar player, so underrated too. Tim Buckley's albums without him were nowhere near as good. The sound of Lee's guitar and Tim'svoice just wrap around each other so perfectly and Lee should get far more credit for those classic albums, to me they are the work of a duo rather than solo pieces

@MrBlueSolitude certo, sono d'accordissimo con te eh!! appunto per questo dicevo che non sopporto quando ne parlano facendo un diretto confronto... semplicemente perchè questo non ha motivo di esistere, son due mondi diversi, ma allo stesso tempo degni di essere ricordati..

@MrBlueSolitude Ad ogni modo mi pare strano però che nemmeno su ebay si trovi qualcosa, magari ci sono collezionisti da qualche parte...

@MrBlueSolitude diciamo che malignamente si potrebbe affermare che Tim è clamorosamente sottovalutato quanto Jeff sopravvalutato (direbbero in molti....). Ma io non sono maligna :-) e Jeff lo amo visceralmente, così come da un po' di tempo sto imparando ad amare la musica di Tim. E' solo una considerazione che sento fare a molti... e un po' me ne dispiace. Anzi, dico la verità, mi fa proprio male sentirne parlare così, ma tant'è....

@MrBlueSolitude forse da qualche importaz Jappo si trova??

Jeff had a much wider range than his father, but the dad is still pretty good.

Check out this moron

Tim was Tim before his son was momma's little man...

His singing reminds me of John Fruscinate's heroin period

Springsteen got nothing on this

Starsailor was one of the outstanding albums of the seventies, and it is without doubt Tim Buckley`s masterpiece.

@RobMD29 Their voices were not very similar at all in terms of capability. Jeff actually had a much wider range than his father. Oh yeah, if you look at my oriiginal statement, what I said was that people who are constantly drawing parallels to the two performers don't get their music. Calling me out for a "statement" that I didn't make is purely ignorant.