I used to listen to this song while i was in Vietnam 69-70 combat medic with a CRIP team., I did not get to be in a base camp very much so every time i would play this song over and over and now when I here it i am right back in Nam.
I think it’s the Airplane’s sweetest song. I’m imagining you, tired and heartsick from giving medical aid to shot-up comrades, and you finding comfort in this gentle song.
i was a teenage runaway in SF in 1966 and got to hear all this stuff live. This is one of my favorite songs of the period and still listen to it and dream .
That was an amazing time in SF. I was at SF State from ‘65-‘69, living in the Sunset District. Quite a ride. Now I’m a 75 yo grandma in Orange County, still feeling like that 18 yo when I hear Jefferson Airplane and Big Brother and the Holding Company!
Yes, I'll tell you that you're not the only one. I'll tell you a true tale about my love for a woman separated from me by circumstances that almost spelled a fate that might have ended in sad tragedy. 'Comin' Back to Me' has haunted me ever since I first fell in love, when 'Surrealistic Pillow' was on the charts. In 1968, I found myself alone & stoned, staring out the window where no curtains hung, in Augusta Georgia. I'd formed an illegal commune of Army medics, off-post amid fates unknown; a private rental we occupied as dissidents who'd been drafted against our will, consigned to the vagaries of unjust disruptions of Viet Nam war nonsense. We knew that our futures were threatening all our personal plans, including my then-dissolved plan to marry my sweetheart. I played this song & wept. Well , it ended better than my emotions feared. I did marry my sweetheart, and went to Germany with her. The rest of the story is fraught with other surprises, good & bad, but we are all subjected to surprises; that's life! Yet, as with you, this song has deep meaning that's aged like fine wine with nicely-flavored nuances! Please know that your deep emotional attachment to 'Comin' Back to Me' is no lonely experience.
My mom died today. She told me to play her this song. RIP LaDean Robinson. You’ve left behind too many broken hearts, and I’ll miss you as long as I can breathe. I’ll always wish my kids would have met you, I’ll always wish you’d been at my wedding, I’ll always need you. I know you’re in a better place, and your suffering has ended. Rest well, mom. I love you.
I am so so sorry for your loss. Very heartbreaking what you wrote. I definitely know she's in a better place. this world misleads one's eyes to believe Loved Ones no longer are. but they do exist. they're with us when we're unaware of them. You will, indeed, see your Mom one day. May it, however, be a long time from now. ♡ 🙏🏽♥️
Everyone has lived this song. Everyone can relate to this masterpiece. Everyone has lost someone they loved dearly and dreamed they have come back. Thank you Marty. RIP..
Yes, we all bungled it at least once. And cried into our beer ever after. But no one ever rhapsodized it in song so beautifully as did Marty. Rest in peace, old chap. And keep the light on for us. We’ll be along presently.
Majority of my generation doesn’t even know who Jefferson Airplane is. Heck, most of my class hasn’t even heard the name Chevy Chase before. But all I need to feel joy is knowing that at least one other person in the world stays with this kind of music. I hope I can one day meet someone who likes 60s-80s music in real life. Nothing else really screams love and peace as much as this song.
Well we probably won't meet, but I love the 60s and 70s. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. I have seen the Airplane play about 10 times, along with all the bay area groups with the British of that time. I was blessed. I saw Hendrix play. He was a sight to behold. It was a a time to be young and free. This song about lost love, and the emptiness in your heart ❤️ kinda says alot. It is one of my favorites by the Jefferson Airplane. This, Today, Somebody To Love, Tumblin, by Jefferson Starship. Of course, alot more. They were my favorite bay area group. Dave in Sierra Vista AZ
Dear God I fell in love with this song today. I was born in the seventies and went over this band. Found this song accidently and my body went stiff listening to it, it captured me. How absofuckinlutely beautiful this song is.
I played this song so many times-it was my closing song of the night when I did solo gigs. I felt that Marty had written my heart’s secrets somehow… I think this song affected many of us that way.
I'm in a state of amazement such depth beauty nothing in the last 55 yrs even comes close to this piece of musical perfection just incredible thank to Jerry marty grace you've blessed us all 🙂🙂🙂🙂
"I always say, that you won't go away, but I know it always has been ~ It always has been..." 69 years ago, I remember hearing this song during the 1st turn of the Psychedelic era ~ It had just begun & I was just a simple boy in the 8th grade... somehow I knew that I'd just crossed over into another time & place. I was only 14 years young & my brothers where off in Vietnam, as I only had this beautiful song to reference to, as to where I was in life. I remember this moment as if it was yesterday... Wow, I'm just 69 yrs young... I can still live that very moment through this beautiful tune today... Magical...❤😅😊
Enlightened, yet profound in its sadness and deeply affecting, this song to me has always suggested what I imagined to be the real emotional heart of the 'summer of love' in 1967. It says much in a handful of lines about a time, a place and a feeling that was authentic, uninhibited and truly felt, but seemingly could not last, for many reasons. To me, this may be the greatest 'delicate' song ever written; its slightness and fragility really do capture a fleeting moment in time. This is some kind of masterpiece - 'the shadow in the mist could have been anyone' tears me up. Thank you Jefferson Airplane - rest in peace Marty Balin; the depth of your humanity and understanding won't be forgotten while this song lives.
Wait. It’s 2020. How the hell did that happen? Listening to that song, I was back in 1969. I will have to listen to it again, my time machine. Coming back to me.
Yeah. Definitely an amazing track. Quiet and timeless. It exhales nostalgia like incense in the air. I remember sitting in my buddy's living room one evening in college, after hanging out in the woods all day. We were all spent and tired, and we were listening to this tune on vinyl, not saying anything, just sort of staring at nothing, at peace. That was a long time ago, but that moment is etched in time, forever. As I listen to it right now, I'm brought back to that peaceful moment, sitting with my old friends in that apartment, after hiking through the humid woods, among rays of sun penetrating the canopy like stalactites from the sky. It's great how songs like this can collapse time and bring us right back to those moments, right back to the odors in the air, and the feel of the floor against our bare feet.
Beautiful description of a lovely day spent with dear friends... Defining moments that are forever etched into one's soul, so glad you were able to recall it. (and even if you hadn't been able to, it still would have been a building block of who you are and what you have become!) :)
This is one of their best songs. It is sad, to remember your past loves, and know you will never be together any more. This song kinda rips your heart out. It is done so well, and the words show meaning and emotions that never really go away, they are buried by more recent events. Every once in a while, your inner emotions come bubbling to the top, and you want to rememberyour past love better, and play this song. Wow.. In time, your feelings and emotions all come to the surface, and you handle it the best way you can. Also, I lived in the San Francisco Bay area when I was a teen, and saw them play this. So this song really dose a number on me. Dave In Sierra Vista AZ
I'm 52 years old and this is the first time I have heard this song. I was listening to some other Jefferson Airplane music when this song just came up in my feed. What a peaceful and relaxing, yet very moving song! It resonates so well with me, both in terms of the lyrics and the music.
" CALIFORNIA DREAMING" WAS TAKEN AWAY FOREVER & A DAY: GREED, OPULENCE, AVARICE(HUMAN ENDEAVORS + "NATURE: RECENT RAVAGING FIRES, PREVIOUS DROUGHTS, SOON TO COME " THE BIG ONE:(WWWHAT A DEAL I HAVE FOR U THEN,,REMAINING REAL ESTATE ON THE SURVIVING NEW SHORELINE FOR SALE." BETTER GET IT WHILE U CAN"(JANIS JOPLIN MEGA HIT). WONDER WHAT THE SPLICE OFF ((FLOATING WHERE)) NEW ISLAND OF CALIFORNIA LAND IS GOING TO COST??
@@estherhazydreamsbatiktiedy4834 I grew up surfing in SoCal but loved tripping in NoCal. In '69 a friend rented an apartment in a Victorian near Steiner and Fulton. I spent a month crashing on a couch and exploring Frisco. Then some friends and I camped for a month in Point Reyes Park -- right on Drakes Bay beach. Next camping on the Russian River -- a friend lived in Monte Rio. Finally a month long hike on the Muir trail from a friend's house in Mammoth to Yosemite. By 1970 I was on the run from the draft board -- hiding in Boulder CO.
@@rexmonarch2 Great memories. thank you for sharing, the first time I was in San Francisco, I was 5 years old, my Mother dressed us very carefully layers of clothes, and I had to try to figure out how to not lose my stuff, on the way home, as it was always rainy in the mornings , then sunny in the afternoon. She was the greatest and she took me all over the city exploring, the best days, we had. I had 2 older brothers, who explored San francisco in the 60s, but Mom was really protective, as I was her only girl, which I am, glad she was, But I did get to go visit my older brothers, in the summers,and we always had so much fun, Hayward, and San Francisco!
This song brings me back to 1968, when I was 18 and filled with love and longing along with the wonder that was the late sixties. I love the way I feel when I hear it. It's magical.
When performing this live with Jefferson Starship, singer Marty Balin almost always introduced the song with a reference to the Surrealistic Pillow sessions, mentioning Jerry Garcia as having played the guitar parts on the original studio version. Grace Slick plays the recorder on this. LyRicS The summer had inhaled and held its breath too long The winter looked the same, as if it never had gone And through an open window where no curtain hung I saw you I saw you Comin' back to me One begins to read between the pages of a book The shape of sleepy music, and suddenly you're hooked Through the rain upon the trees, the kisses on the run I saw you I saw you Comin' back to me You came to stay and live my way Scatter my love like leaves in the wind You always say you won't go away But I know what it always has been It always has been A transparent dream beneath an occasional sigh Most of the time I just let it go by Now I wish it hadn't begun I saw you, yes, I saw you Comin' back to me Strolling the hills overlooking the shore I realized I've been there before The shadow in the mist could have been anyone I saw you I saw you Comin' back to me Small things like reasons are put in a jar Whatever happened to wishes wished upon a star? Was it just something that I made up for fun? I saw you, I saw you comin' back to me...
This song,,, It was early winter 69. I was 18 and seeing a girl who was attending Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis. Doing a long distance relationship. That winter was so long, we were in deep love.... When spring came I drifted, doing drugs and going to rock festivals. Until the draft notice... I never saw or heard from her again
look her up on facebook, send her this song. :) Then tell us more of the story. How long did you serve in Vietnam? if you write a book, I will read it.
I started my interest in music at a very young age. Age 12 first album purchase Grand Orange records Cambridge Square Mass. I bought Neil Young's self titled solo album. Id had Dave Clark Five Glad All Over and A Cream Wheels of Fire My sister had given me. Garrard system also a gift. Soon I started listening to a neighbors albums collection Surrealistic Pillow....this song always stuck...still does. Each adolescent breakup I had played it. Cried. Miss that era soo much. Rip Marty, Paul and Spencer...
i was 19 in college. In love with Kay, lost her through my own immaturity. this song brings her back to me as if it was yesterday. Through the shadow in mist....I see her. Still.
15 years old... As I lay in my bed staring into space listening to my album Jefferson Airplane - Flight Log... Imagining I was older at that time and only wishing I was 15 again. 35 years old... As I lay in my bed staring into space listening to my album Jefferson Airplane - Flight Log... Imagining I was 15 again and I was just imagining I was older...
This song was on the movie Flashback with Dennis Hopper and Kiefer Sutherland from 1989 it's a awesome kind of hippie movie that is so awesome that I wish they made more movies like that one
Like a little secret, the background music hums nostalgia and sets the scene for the awesome voice piercing our hearts. Thanks and today, 1/30/23 Happy Heavenly Birthday Marty Balín. You are remembered❤
"Coming Back To Me" is 1 of the most haunting of their songs,to almost anyone who was ever in love.The photo of the 6 of them,in a circle & looking down at the camera,is probably 1 of the most iconic copied photos ever.Lost allll my JA,JS,& Hot Tuna albums in a fire decades ago but have found their wonderful music in sooo many other places.Fly Jefferson Airplane.
This song is VERY real in my own life. Has been, and ever will be. Marty's voice is the Angelic answer. Comin back to me. He's definitely Up Top. . . .this was one of his greatest beauties. Immortalized indeed, Loving Marty. 💕
Rock In Peace Marty....hope you and Paul are doing gigs together....ty you for the good vibes down the years, till we meet again one day in better lands :)
a true gem that got scattered like leaves in the wind throughout time and what others consider to be real music today. Marty sings with heartfelt vibration and completely captures what it is like to have a moment next to the Northern California coast in June to reflect.
At 72 I find myself dreaming of the woman I loved 50 years ago. Since then married twice, children, and other relationships, but I only ever loved once. My heart to you Jane Ingwell, wherever you are.
This is a song I sing for my wife because I saw her "through an open window where no curtain hung". The guitar part is pretty easy but I can't duplicate the amazing flute part.
Esta música, lindíssima, traz-me à memória os meus entes mais queridos que já não estão comigo. Gostaria de os ver e dizer-lhes os quanto os amei e para sempre os amarei. Tenho tantas saudades vossas. RIP 😢
While this song has the earmarks of being a 60's song. And I remember first hearing it back then. It also has aged so well. Balin could write moody tunes that touched something inside. Love this tune.
Deep words, and sentiments. Amazing, this song is very moving, and yes, must have a connection with millions. Wonder who it's written about originally?
I can feel the profoundly powerful nostalgic melancholic sadness, missing someone, thinking in pictures,looking at the cardboard cutout plastic world that is bathed in a dreary sunlight, and you loved this person, and it was all your fault,
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I used to listen to this song while i was in Vietnam 69-70 combat medic with a CRIP team., I did not get to be in a base camp very much so every time i would play this song over and over and now when I here it i am right back in Nam.
I think it’s the Airplane’s sweetest song. I’m imagining you, tired and heartsick from giving medical aid to shot-up comrades, and you finding comfort in this gentle song.
ok
Peace be with you ✌️ 🙏❤️
Thank you 🙌
Was a grunt there, '68, really appreciated you guys, wounded twice but made it home. Thanks for what you did for us.
i was a teenage runaway in SF in 1966 and got to hear all this stuff live. This is one of my favorite songs of the period and still listen to it and dream .
That was an amazing time in SF. I was at SF State from ‘65-‘69, living in the Sunset District. Quite a ride. Now I’m a 75 yo grandma in Orange County, still feeling like that 18 yo when I hear Jefferson Airplane and Big Brother and the Holding Company!
@@jakuho4984 listened to this album alot when I was 15. Ill be 70 in a couple of weeks. Life is too short tho it didn't always feel that way
Me to. This song has been in my head most of my life. I'm in my 70's. Hard to belive
You old hippie, you. @@jakuho4984
I was runaway in Berkeley in 66...Laying down on the troop tracks...woohoo🤟🤟
Tell me I am not the only one that has a deep emotional attachment to this song. The "you" could be me, or someone else.
Yes, I'll tell you that you're not the only one. I'll tell you a true tale about my love for a woman separated from me by circumstances that almost spelled a fate that might have ended in sad tragedy. 'Comin' Back to Me' has haunted me ever since I first fell in love, when 'Surrealistic Pillow' was on the charts.
In 1968, I found myself alone & stoned, staring out the window where no curtains hung, in Augusta Georgia. I'd formed an illegal commune of Army medics, off-post amid fates unknown; a private rental we occupied as dissidents who'd been drafted against our will, consigned to the vagaries of unjust disruptions of Viet Nam war nonsense. We knew that our futures were threatening all our personal plans, including my then-dissolved plan to marry my sweetheart. I played this song & wept.
Well , it ended better than my emotions feared. I did marry my sweetheart, and went to Germany with her. The rest of the story is fraught with other surprises, good & bad, but we are all subjected to surprises; that's life! Yet, as with you, this song has deep meaning that's aged like fine wine with nicely-flavored nuances!
Please know that your deep emotional attachment to 'Comin' Back to Me' is no lonely experience.
That is amazing, I never expected a response like that, what a story, thank you .... a million.
mark y You are most welcomed!
a couple times at least
j a nails rock music and no one like them; RIP Kantner!
My mom died today. She told me to play her this song. RIP LaDean Robinson. You’ve left behind too many broken hearts, and I’ll miss you as long as I can breathe. I’ll always wish my kids would have met you, I’ll always wish you’d been at my wedding, I’ll always need you. I know you’re in a better place, and your suffering has ended. Rest well, mom. I love you.
Sorry for your loss. May she rest in peace.
💔💔💔💔💔
Ladean Robinson I am so sorry for the loss of your Mom; your Mom is with Jesus
😔❤
I am so so sorry for your loss.
Very heartbreaking what you wrote.
I definitely know she's in a better place. this world misleads one's eyes to believe Loved Ones no longer are. but they do exist. they're with us when we're unaware of them.
You will, indeed, see your Mom one day.
May it, however, be a long time from now. ♡
🙏🏽♥️
Marty Balin was a phenomenal writer and artist. Missing him in 2023.
...and in 2024...
Marty wrote the most beautiful emotional songs and some that left lyrics out to be played on radio...Miracles. Those 2 verses.
One of the most beautiful songs ever written. Just magical.
Agreed - simply gorgeous, one of my favorite tracks ever
Everyone has lived this song. Everyone can relate to this masterpiece. Everyone has lost someone they loved dearly and dreamed they have come back. Thank you Marty. RIP..
Yes, we all bungled it at least once. And cried into our beer ever after. But no one ever rhapsodized it in song so beautifully as did Marty.
Rest in peace, old chap. And keep the light on for us. We’ll be along presently.
M
@@gleaful1202
So true beautiful song 🎵
😔🙏
Majority of my generation doesn’t even know who Jefferson Airplane is. Heck, most of my class hasn’t even heard the name Chevy Chase before. But all I need to feel joy is knowing that at least one other person in the world stays with this kind of music. I hope I can one day meet someone who likes 60s-80s music in real life. Nothing else really screams love and peace as much as this song.
Dude yes
This shit has always been my shit, I feel like an old soul
I love 60s-80s music ❤️ Which country are you from?
@@k.c7655 sry for late reply, United States of America, and you?
It’s the best, I don’t think I can completely move on to other genres even if I tried
Well we probably won't meet, but I love the 60s and 70s. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area. I have seen the Airplane play about 10 times, along with all the bay area groups with the British of that time. I was blessed. I saw Hendrix play. He was a sight to behold. It was a a time to be young and free. This song about lost love, and the emptiness in your heart ❤️ kinda says alot. It is one of my favorites by the Jefferson Airplane. This, Today, Somebody To Love, Tumblin, by Jefferson Starship. Of course, alot more. They were my favorite bay area group. Dave in Sierra Vista AZ
Dear God I fell in love with this song today. I was born in the seventies and went over this band. Found this song accidently and my body went stiff listening to it, it captured me. How absofuckinlutely beautiful this song is.
We were fortunate to be raised in an era that produced so much great music. It was truly a renaissance period.
that it was......amazing time.....
capeheartriz : How nice that we were there to enjoy it. I hope the new year brings you much happiness and good health.
thanks buddy...you too
So effen true.
The balladeers
Grace's recorder on top of Marty's song and voice....what a gift to the world.
This song still grips my heart...54 years later.
First time I hear this song…makes me wish my late husband could come back to me….I miss him so much. Love you forever Chuck…
It's a beautiful song ,
And the woman I love in my youth. It's hard to listen to this beautiful song without her memory returning. Never got over it, not to be maudlin.
I’m so sorry for your loss. May his memory be a blessing.
@@afn6224 Thank you…very kind to respond 🙏
Airplane's most beautiful song; the soft guitar, Marty Balin' singing his poem so passionately... uplifting or what?
I played this song so many times-it was my closing song of the night when I did solo gigs. I felt that Marty had written my heart’s secrets somehow… I think this song affected many of us that way.
Marty's masterpiece will be played even in 100 years
Its already more than fifty years
You are so right...
I'm in a state of amazement such depth beauty nothing in the last 55 yrs even comes close to this piece of musical perfection just incredible thank to Jerry marty grace you've blessed us all 🙂🙂🙂🙂
You forgot Jack.
@@markhunter8554 and Jorma
"I always say, that you won't go away, but I know it always has been ~ It always has been..." 69 years ago, I remember hearing this song during the 1st turn of the Psychedelic era ~ It had just begun & I was just a simple boy in the 8th grade... somehow I knew that I'd just crossed over into another time & place. I was only 14 years young & my brothers where off in Vietnam, as I only had this beautiful song to reference to, as to where I was in life. I remember this moment as if it was yesterday... Wow, I'm just 69 yrs young... I can still live that very moment through this beautiful tune today... Magical...❤😅😊
one of the greatest songs of all time. A true work of art and poetry.
Enlightened, yet profound in its sadness and deeply affecting, this song to me has always suggested what I imagined to be the real emotional heart of the 'summer of love' in 1967. It says much in a handful of lines about a time, a place and a feeling that was authentic, uninhibited and truly felt, but seemingly could not last, for many reasons. To me, this may be the greatest 'delicate' song ever written; its slightness and fragility really do capture a fleeting moment in time. This is some kind of masterpiece - 'the shadow in the mist could have been anyone' tears me up. Thank you Jefferson Airplane - rest in peace Marty Balin; the depth of your humanity and understanding won't be forgotten while this song lives.
Put eloquently
Yes.
Wow!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
My absolute favorite. Some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written.
+bklynsam ...mine too.
Wait. It’s 2020. How the hell did that happen? Listening to that song, I was back in 1969. I will have to listen to it again, my time machine. Coming back to me.
go back often
Yeah. Definitely an amazing track. Quiet and timeless. It exhales nostalgia like incense in the air. I remember sitting in my buddy's living room one evening in college, after hanging out in the woods all day. We were all spent and tired, and we were listening to this tune on vinyl, not saying anything, just sort of staring at nothing, at peace. That was a long time ago, but that moment is etched in time, forever. As I listen to it right now, I'm brought back to that peaceful moment, sitting with my old friends in that apartment, after hiking through the humid woods, among rays of sun penetrating the canopy like stalactites from the sky. It's great how songs like this can collapse time and bring us right back to those moments, right back to the odors in the air, and the feel of the floor against our bare feet.
Beautiful description of a lovely day spent with dear friends... Defining moments that are forever etched into one's soul, so glad you were able to recall it. (and even if you hadn't been able to, it still would have been a building block of who you are and what you have become!) :)
Yeah....that's just done me... Off to the woods now with me dogs:)
How can something be so beautiful and flawless and bring tears and smiles in my opinion a masterpiece that'll never have an equal😢😢🙂🙂🙂
This is one of their best songs. It is sad, to remember your past loves, and know you will never be together any more. This song kinda rips your heart out. It is done so well, and the words show meaning and emotions that never really go away, they are buried by more recent events. Every once in a while, your inner emotions come bubbling to the top, and you want to rememberyour past love better, and play this song. Wow.. In time, your feelings and emotions all come to the surface, and you handle it the best way you can. Also, I lived in the San Francisco Bay area when I was a teen, and saw them play this. So this song really dose a number on me. Dave In Sierra Vista AZ
I'm 52 years old and this is the first time I have heard this song. I was listening to some other Jefferson Airplane music when this song just came up in my feed. What a peaceful and relaxing, yet very moving song! It resonates so well with me, both in terms of the lyrics and the music.
Oh my God, I love this and have listened to it so many times.
Love Marty Ballin’s voice.
I know he’s no longer with us which makes me feel rough.
Late sixties and early seventies. BEST music hands down. Nuff said.
Those days in Nothern Cal in the late autumn -- the golden grasses and the oak trees with spectral fog appearing here and there...
...or in Golden Gate Park, passing the dube and maybe a brown bag w/tasty koolaid, and there was magic in the air to feel, hear, and see.
Yes and the beach days and nights, Northern California nothing like that especially when the MOON IS FULL! lovely
" CALIFORNIA DREAMING" WAS TAKEN AWAY FOREVER & A DAY: GREED, OPULENCE, AVARICE(HUMAN ENDEAVORS + "NATURE: RECENT RAVAGING FIRES, PREVIOUS DROUGHTS, SOON TO COME " THE BIG ONE:(WWWHAT A DEAL I HAVE FOR U THEN,,REMAINING REAL ESTATE ON THE SURVIVING NEW SHORELINE FOR SALE." BETTER GET IT WHILE U CAN"(JANIS JOPLIN MEGA HIT). WONDER WHAT THE SPLICE OFF ((FLOATING WHERE)) NEW ISLAND OF CALIFORNIA LAND IS GOING TO COST??
@@estherhazydreamsbatiktiedy4834 I grew up surfing in SoCal but loved tripping in NoCal. In '69 a friend rented an apartment in a Victorian near Steiner and Fulton. I spent a month crashing on a couch and exploring Frisco. Then some friends and I camped for a month in Point Reyes Park -- right on Drakes Bay beach. Next camping on the Russian River -- a friend lived in Monte Rio. Finally a month long hike on the Muir trail from a friend's house in Mammoth to Yosemite. By 1970 I was on the run from the draft board -- hiding in Boulder CO.
@@rexmonarch2 Great memories. thank you for sharing, the first time I was in San Francisco, I was 5 years old, my Mother dressed us very carefully layers of clothes, and I had to try to figure out how to not lose my stuff, on the way home, as it was always rainy in the mornings , then sunny in the afternoon. She was the greatest and she took me all over the city exploring, the best days, we had. I had 2 older brothers, who explored San francisco in the 60s, but Mom was really protective, as I was her only girl, which I am, glad she was, But I did get to go visit my older brothers, in the summers,and we always had so much fun, Hayward, and San Francisco!
This song brings me back to 1968, when I was 18 and filled with love and longing along with the wonder that was the late sixties. I love the way I feel when I hear it. It's magical.
When performing this live with Jefferson Starship, singer Marty Balin almost always introduced the song with a reference to the Surrealistic Pillow sessions, mentioning Jerry Garcia as having played the guitar parts on the original studio version.
Grace Slick plays the recorder on this.
LyRicS
The summer had inhaled and held its breath too long
The winter looked the same, as if it never had gone
And through an open window where no curtain hung
I saw you
I saw you
Comin' back to me
One begins to read between the pages of a book
The shape of sleepy music, and suddenly you're hooked
Through the rain upon the trees, the kisses on the run
I saw you
I saw you
Comin' back to me
You came to stay and live my way
Scatter my love like leaves in the wind
You always say you won't go away
But I know what it always has been
It always has been
A transparent dream beneath an occasional sigh
Most of the time I just let it go by
Now I wish it hadn't begun
I saw you, yes, I saw you
Comin' back to me
Strolling the hills overlooking the shore
I realized I've been there before
The shadow in the mist could have been anyone
I saw you
I saw you
Comin' back to me
Small things like reasons are put in a jar
Whatever happened to wishes wished upon a star?
Was it just something that I made up for fun?
I saw you, I saw you comin' back to me...
This song,,, It was early winter 69. I was 18 and seeing a girl who was attending Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis. Doing a long distance relationship. That winter was so long, we were in deep love.... When spring came I drifted, doing drugs and going to rock festivals. Until the draft notice... I never saw or heard from her again
look her up on facebook, send her this song. :) Then tell us more of the story. How long did you serve in Vietnam? if you write a book, I will read it.
+persona non grata he lived the life of millions of other dudes during that time. It ain't that interesting
your a idiot Jionni
I started my interest in music at a very young age. Age 12 first album purchase Grand Orange records Cambridge Square Mass. I bought Neil Young's self titled solo album. Id had Dave Clark Five Glad All Over and A Cream Wheels of Fire My sister had given me. Garrard system also a gift. Soon I started listening to a neighbors albums collection Surrealistic Pillow....this song always stuck...still does. Each adolescent breakup I had played it. Cried.
Miss that era soo
much. Rip Marty, Paul and Spencer...
That's sad, did you ever find her? after you wrote this?
Rest in peace, Marty.
Well miss you. You co-founder you you inspiration you today
🌌
I've been a fan of their's since 1967 and this is my favorite song of theirs.Takes me back to Frisco and the Pacific ocean and fog.
Just know I'll always be looking over my shoulder and reaching out my hand to you Shelton, that will never change. You are my friend.
i was 19 in college. In love with Kay, lost her through my own immaturity. this song brings her back to me as if it was yesterday. Through the shadow in mist....I see her. Still.
Stefan 929 First loves never really die...
Kathy...
Woodstock. 54 years ago. Am I that old?! Still a little bit hippy.
너무나 오랫만에 이 음악을 들었습니다. 거의 40년만에 들은 것 같습니다. 오늘 딸과함께 작은 까페에 갔었습니다. 들려오는 음악의 한 소절이 이 음악을 생각나게 했습니다. 집가는 지하철에서 이 음악을 번복하여 듣고 있습니다.
아 너무나 마음이 벅차오네요.
I love this band, above ALL bands, so soulful! Rest in Peace Paul Kantner!
We still love the same song . Thanks Jefferson Airplane ❤🌹
Yea!¡!!!!;
15 years old... As I lay in my bed staring into space listening to my album Jefferson Airplane - Flight Log... Imagining I was older at that time and only wishing I was 15 again. 35 years old... As I lay in my bed staring into space listening to my album Jefferson Airplane - Flight Log... Imagining I was 15 again and I was just imagining I was older...
318Sunshine have you seen the stars tonight??
Mick Bal Always ;)
Ah, how many times I lived this song over and over.......I wonder where they all went?
I wonder too
I'm STILL HERE waiting!
💜🙏😂✌💜
This song was on the movie Flashback with Dennis Hopper and Kiefer Sutherland from 1989 it's a awesome kind of hippie movie that is so awesome that I wish they made more movies like that one
This one takes me back a long way.
Marty's music will live a long, long time.
Wish I could have gone to Woodstock in 1969. I know it would have been beautiful.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL THE GREAT MEMORIES , GRACE SLICK , AND THE REST OF THE GREAT BAND JEFFERSON AIRPLANE , MR. ERIC M COOK.
Like a little secret, the background music hums nostalgia and sets the scene for the awesome voice piercing our hearts.
Thanks and today, 1/30/23
Happy Heavenly Birthday Marty Balín. You are remembered❤
This is such a hantingly Trippy Beautiful song so Beautiful let's bring this type of music back we need this music it's just beautiful!!!
This song is so beautiful.
RIP Marty .. and Thank you !
Hauntingly beautiful!
The best of my generation....
"Coming Back To Me" is 1 of the most haunting of their songs,to almost anyone who was ever in love.The photo of the 6 of them,in a circle & looking down at the camera,is probably 1 of the most iconic copied photos ever.Lost allll my JA,JS,& Hot Tuna albums in a fire decades ago but have found their wonderful music in sooo many other places.Fly Jefferson Airplane.
Still mesmerizing.
This song is VERY real in my own life.
Has been, and ever will be.
Marty's voice is the Angelic answer.
Comin back to me.
He's definitely Up Top.
. . .this was one of his greatest beauties.
Immortalized indeed, Loving Marty. 💕
one of my favorite, Rip Marty
Who cares? This song brings me back to 1967 and my first love affair; lasted barely a year but I will never forget her and the Adrenalin rush.
Great song and beautiful photo montage
Not to mention the flood of great memories it brings back
I was @ Woodstock. A million lifetimes ago. So different so much more hopeful
Been a fan of this band since 60s and still am, absolute class from the legendery JA. RIP marty, and and Paul, & 4:59 Spencer. ❤
Loved this song since I heard at 10 years old. Now I'm a little older and love it even more.
I was 11 when I first heard it and still get all sappy over it... Beautiful songs like this are timeless gems.
Perhaps the most mature rock song recorded in 1967.
Rock In Peace Marty....hope you and Paul are doing gigs together....ty you for the good vibes down the years, till we meet again one day in better lands :)
We will forever remember Marty and this song
Sad and poetic, very sensitive for a high energy physdelical band.
O sentimento que eu tenho quando ouço essa música é muito bom
one of the saddest and the most beautiful song ever
THE BEST SONG OF ALL TIME ALONG WITH WOODEN SHIPS
Brilliant song.
Oh my. Hauntingly beautiful.
a true gem that got scattered like leaves in the wind throughout time and what others consider to be real music today. Marty sings with heartfelt vibration and completely captures what it is like to have a moment next to the Northern California coast in June to reflect.
This is the song of my life
A great song
So sad. Now Marty and Paul are gone. This song is for me what that summer here was all about. It makes me sad. So sad.
Marty Balin was Airplane's balladeer.
This and Today take me to a specific place and time when I was young.
At 72 I find myself dreaming of the woman I loved 50 years ago. Since then married twice, children, and other relationships, but I only ever loved once. My heart to you Jane Ingwell, wherever you are.
Look at what wrote at Dave in Sierra Vista AZ. It much the same as you. Dave in Sierra Vista AZ
Weird, I live in the desert in AZ now. Moved here a couple years ago. Lonely. but beautiful.b @@davidewing5605
I did the same. I wish I did not waste all that time
Amazing song! So sad, but very romantic.
This is a song I sing for my wife because I saw her "through an open window where no curtain hung". The guitar part is pretty easy but I can't duplicate the amazing flute part.
Such a beautiful spirit-filled song :)
I chose to believe she did come back to him, it wasn't a dream.
Love it...Living in San Franco-co back then all I can say Is that she gave it so sweetly.....wish she was commin back to me
COME on PEOPLE, YOU
KNOW WHERE YOU ARE
lets get back TOGETHER
I SEE YOU!💜🎶💜🎶💜
COMING BACK TO ME...
Ahhh I hear this and I admittedly miss you my long lost love.......
Esta música, lindíssima, traz-me à memória os meus entes mais queridos que já não estão comigo. Gostaria de os ver e dizer-lhes os quanto os amei e para sempre os amarei. Tenho tantas saudades vossas. RIP 😢
The MUSIC OF 67 Saved my Mothers SANITY !!! 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍IT HELPED HER A GREAT DEAL IN HOSPITAL 😁😁😁😁☺g
Majestic Airplane
While this song has the earmarks of being a 60's song. And I remember first hearing it back then. It also has aged so well. Balin could write moody tunes that touched something inside. Love this tune.
0:01 love the album photo and the song too ofcourse
I'm thinking of you Bill....you must love this song🎵🎶
As evocative, moving and overlooked as the Rolling Stones' As Tears Go By
What a wonderful song...
R.I.P. Paul.
What a sad beautiful song.
Perhaps the most beautiful ballad to come out of the 60s-70s
Deep words, and sentiments. Amazing, this song is very moving, and yes, must have a connection with millions.
Wonder who it's written about originally?
this song is from my first TRIP to San Francisco Haight Golden gate park coming down from an acid trip and all that went with that☮😎✌🗝
I can feel the profoundly powerful nostalgic melancholic sadness, missing someone, thinking in pictures,looking at the cardboard cutout plastic world that is bathed in a dreary sunlight, and you loved this person, and it was all your fault,
Thank you, Marty
Michael McLoughlin
There are so many people Ive seen come back to me,
Where they all go I guess we always wonder.
This song catches the feeling.