Come Down In Time - Sting
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- Опубликовано: 2 фев 2009
- From the album "Two Rooms: Celebrating The Songs Of Elton John & Bernie Taupin"
In the quiet silent seconds I turned off the light switch
And I came down to meet you in the half light the moon left
While a cluster of night jars sang some songs out of tune
A mantle of bright light shone down from a room
Come down in time I still hear her say
So clear in my ear like it was today
Come down in time was the message she gave
Come down in time and I'll meet you half way
Well I don't know if I should have heard her as yet
But a true love like hers is a hard love to get
And I've walked most all the way and I ain't heard her call
And I'm getting to thinking if she's coming at all
There are women and women and some hold you tight
While some leave you counting the stars in the night
Lyrics: www.eltonography.com 
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Bernie Taupin was only a teenager when he wrote these incredible lyrics. A true master, even then.
Best version ever, no doubt about it
Absolutely nailed it. And the master is at the helm at piano. Sir Elton himself playing with Sting.
two words = goose bumps
Kinda embarrassing to say but I'm a guy and I must admit, when I hear or rather feel Sting sing this song - I kinda blush and fluster or something lol. That's how beautiful it is.
Masterpiece of a masterpiece
Beyond beautiful.
Always a Sting fan, but this is far and above great !!! Just keys, bass, and Stings unmatchable voice.
One of the most beautyfull melodies I've ever heard, with many changing chords...
Elton John is a great composer !
This is
a pearl in my musical universe. Beautiful performance, amazing compositor.
Only Sting could do this song. That is outside of Elton John. Fantastic take on this classic by Elton John.
From the very start the piano created the imagery when you are seeing a woman in your mind's eye and the man that is so deep in love with her. Sting follows the lilting chords and tells the story so perfectly written. The captivation of being in love to yearn to have your soul lifted.
She says come to me while we are still in love....
I lost the title of this album in the jumbled junctions of my mind and felt like never again would I feel the grateful tears that stings emotive expression envoked in me. I lived this both ways.
Thank you, nice
I just can't get enough of this performance. I never thought it was possible to sing this song better. Sting nailed it.
I agree
Elton was impressed as hell too.
@@michaelshaw9211 Your are right ! Most of Elton's songs are pretty hard to sing !!!
Absolutely 💖
Sting and elton are greatfriends
Props to both and tg for england!!🕊️🕊️💎🕊️💎🕊️👁️🌟👁️🌟👁️🕊️👁️🕊️👁️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️👁️
Simply beautiful cover. Velvet maestro's thembre. Excellent. Like two great planets near to each other
As good as it gets.
As an child, I loved Elton. Saw this and fell in love with Sting too.
Definitely the best version of this beautiful song
Judy Collins also did a great version.
I wish that time never passed.
Stings cover here is what made me a fan of his way back in the day. I was a huge EJ fan and this was just beautiful!
When I hear this version, there's not a dry eye in my head.
Never really got this song until I heard this version
Il pianoforte è un vero capolavoro!!!
Pure poetry
The genius of Elton John with the captivating voice of Sting
Sting just does this so well.
Absolutely beautiful.
Beautiful piano playing by Elton here!
I have been in love with the Sting version of this song for a long time!
awesomeness..... I'm so happy I just found it
for the mood, it really can't get any better than this
Bernie Taupin should be a knight of the realm, no doubt that he his the greatest living lyricist and maybe the best ever
I have a hard time believing that 3 people didn't like this. Sting did a great job and the piano player man was fantastic.
Of course, the piano player man in question is, in fact, ELTON JOHN HIMSELF. Only, he asked that for this album, he be billed under the name "Nancy Treadlight"...
I find that it is better than the original. It's like all the artists on this album made every song as if it were their own :-)
The songs fit the artist perfectly. I tried to convey that to some guys once. Good to see like minded souls. The comments all are perfect.
Forse la migliore performance di Sting, puro lirismo, insieme alle supende parole di Elton John. Poesia, magia e malinconia
What a song, lyrics, Stings sexy voice and the piano, I could hear this song forever !!!
EVERYONE NEEDED THIS SONG BACK IN 1970
Sting elevated this song... I think even Elton would acknowledge that
+Doug Sullivan Agree. I knew this from Tumbleweed Connection, but never really got it until I heard this version. I think Elton would agree, he' plays keyboards on this track. Also think the double base part brings it to a whole new level.
+Doug Sullivan Absolutely. When you listen to Sting sing it, it's as if his voice rolls over the lyrics of the song as water rolls over sand. Part of it is his voice in this song too. It certainly adds to the depth of the song. Awesome!
+Doug Sullivan True. Elton has said on more than one occasion that he is not the best singer around.
There is no question though that when he has good lyrics to inspire him he is one of the best songwriters of all time.
Lily Thomson I think Elton's voice is a matter of taste. Some people love it, some don't. I seem to be in a minority that loves his older, rich and slightly raspy current voice best. A great songwriter for sure, but I think his greatest achievement is as a pianist. Seriously, I know that film composer Hans Zimmer and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, both worked with Elton, were deeply impressed with his playing, calling him "dangerously brilliant" and "genuinely one of the best pianists of this era." He has so much feeling in his playing and is one of the best improvisers outside of the jazz greats. And I've heard him play literally every type of piano music; classical, jazz, pop, old-fashioned rock, blues, and gospel.
"Live in Australia" was damn near perfect - I could have done without "Take me to the Pilot" as it just didn't mesh with the rest of the album, but... truly an amazing effort. I love to hop in the car and turn it up loud... just freakin amazing!!!!
There are songs you can't imagine going better. Here, Sting did it.
+Gustavo Al NO WAY !!!!!!!
He most definitely took it out to the stratosphere. His sultry take on it wraps the lyrics like a hand in a glove. SUBLIME😊
Astoundingly beautiful.
A masterpiece by Sting. He could write the yellow pages and it would win a grammy
I cry EVERY TIME. So beautiful.
I want to echo what some others have said. Sting really hit it out of the park with his rendition of Elton John's song (and Bennie Taupin's exquisite lyrics.) Sir Elton, you are brilliant; but Sting really got you here. Same thing with Metallica's version of "Turn the Page"...great Bob Seeger song that another band improved upon.
Brian Schiller It's haunting and beautiful
Lani Hall also does it great justice. I’m a huge Sting fan ... but he could bow to Lani on this one. Though the pianist is exquisite
It's Elton on the piano, so some credit also goes to Elton John. But yes, what a cover!
This entire album is really good. Clapton, Beach Boys, Sting, and Bruce Hornsby are particularly terrific.
I keep returning. This song as sung by Sting does it for me.
I wish some creative person would do a video to it.
One spent a lifetime with me and the other let me counting the stars in the night. Why was it not enough to spend my life with this wonderful lady? I keep thinking of Stephanie though it is pointless to do so. If the truth be known, I would say that I enjoyed every minute that I spent with her. Life is so complicated.
Such meaning. Unmeasurable !!
Best voice for this song
Beautiful cover.
Used to have this CD and now cannot find a digital copy online....Grrrrr. Terrific version of this song. Probably the best song on this collection, besides Joe Cocker's "Sorry"
I agree that Sting did a fantastic version of this song!!
Happy New Year 2021! This song is dedicated to everyone who lost a loved one. "I'm calling out your name tonight" by Richie Levoi ruclips.net/video/JSbGGiSe3S8/видео.html
Sting And the perfection
Heartbreaking
A beautiful rendition.
Sunday morning, cup of coffee with the one you love type of song.
I believe Sir Elton John is a very skilled composer, and very underrated.
+ThePrenian Well he has the fame, but for the wrong reasons. His best songs people don't know of.
+Floyd Collins Yes indeed. Underrated in that respect
Not sure I would say he is under rated, but the music he and Taupin did early on was masterful (new stuff... Not so much). Hands down the "Live in Australia" is amazing (listen to it loud and on a good system) - other than "Take me to the Pilot" the album is near perfection - just don't think that song flows well with the rest
+ThePrenian underrated - hate auto correct sometimes
+Doug Sullivan great review...now I shall seek it out
Absolutely love this
esta musica é perfeita, voz, piano, arranjos.
Ok good in a kind of smoke filled jazz club kind of way. But it does not have the serious majesty of the strings and woodwinds. Nor the pained innocence. Elton nailed it. Sting reinterpreted it. Gotta love the original. More magical. Less bluesy.
memorizing and soothing sound anytime...
this album rocks! I lost it a long time ago, thanks for the post :)
Sting is the man!!
Happy New Year 2021! This song is dedicated to everyone who lost a loved one. "I'm calling out your name tonight" by Richie Levoi ruclips.net/video/JSbGGiSe3S8/видео.html
Piano is so gorgeous 🎹
Great video! Happy New Year 2021! This song is dedicated to everyone who lost a loved one. "I'm calling out your name tonight" by Richie Levoi ruclips.net/video/JSbGGiSe3S8/видео.html
Perfect! So simple. Who could do this now a days?
Love his rendition! Brilliant jazzy song w/superb lyrics!
Wow I've never heard this wow
I love this cover done by Sting !!!! Beautiful… I think Elton is playing the piano on this track…. 🔥👊🏼💙
i love it
great piano by Nancy Treadlight aka: Elton.
Happy New Year 2021! This song is dedicated to everyone who lost a loved one. "I'm calling out your name tonight" by Richie Levoi ruclips.net/video/JSbGGiSe3S8/видео.html
Моя душа радуется когда я слушаю эту музыку.
He still wrote plenty of great songs twenty years ago, this one obviously included. That makes him a real artist as far as I can tell. And any fame he has right now is *present* fame.
This is a great rendition my favorite off the album was Madman Across The Water by Bruce Hornsby
Totally agree!
THANK YOU So Much!! I love this song and especially THIS version! :)
Your welcome
Gorgeous. Hard to improve on Sir Elton, but Sting did it.
+L Fraser Sting vocals, yes! Elton keyboard!
elton's version is the better
OMG been searching for this forever. didn't know the title or anything. decided to whistle it to Google song search and here i am..lol
It's actually Elton John on piano!!!!!
Happy New Year 2021! This song is dedicated to everyone who lost a loved one. "I'm calling out your name tonight" by Richie Levoi ruclips.net/video/JSbGGiSe3S8/видео.html
Wonderful lyrics by Bernie Taupin, The Sting's version is better than Elton's version
"Выставка достижений" знаменитого, и весьма плодотворного тандема Элтона Джона и Берни Топина, с трибьют-альбома 1991г. записанного в честь двадцатилетия их творческого союза. Среди звезд первой величины записавших свои версии композиций сэра Элтона Джона были Эрик Клэптон, Стинг, Тина Тернер, Роджер Долтри, Джордж Майкл и др.
Perfect !
A subtle jazz feel in the chorus. But the original production has more contrast, more light and dark.
Elton is playing the piano on this using the name NANCY TREADLIGHT!!!
Play this at my funeral, OK?
Happy New Year 2021! This song is dedicated to everyone who lost a loved one. "I'm calling out your name tonight" by Richie Levoi ruclips.net/video/JSbGGiSe3S8/видео.html
@bushna2007 The singer waits for his lover. She's a new love, perhaps not consummated. He reflects on her mysterious attraction as he waits in the moonlight, he can see the light in her room. She told him to "come down in time" (or come down after a bit). Should he drop his current lover for this one? Finally she doesn't show leaving him to count the stars in the night
I would love to hear a Sting version of "My Father's Gun"
I have to laugh at the line "a cluster of night jars sang some songs out of tune." For years I thought the line was "Custer and I just sang some songs out of tune."
I have the cassette tape of this.
Going to get into trouble . Bernie & Elton wrote some of the best music around, their was a Soundtrack to a film released in 72 where they wrote the Soundtrack, exceptionally beautiful music "Your song" and this classic with beautiful words and music by both Bernie & Elton John. Stings cover was incredible as was Lani Hall's (Herb Alperts wife). But Elton lost the plot in my opinion in the mid to late 70's with his lifestyle. This is some of his very best.
It's great but the original is crazy!!
i think Nancy Treadlight has a great career ahead of her. Does she do rocket Man?
@bushna2007 it's pretty easy to figure out.... a woman tells a man to meet up with her at some designated time and he goes and wonders if he's going to get stood up because she's not there.
Yeah...Sting sings it great...but do all of you realize Elton is playing the piano? He's setting the tempo and emotion....even though the credit for the pianist on the album is Nancy Treadlight. Elton is king.
@wpollock1 , i even think Elton would like this version better, i never heard "have i told you lately" until Rod Stewart sang it , i bet Van Morrison is glad he did
alguien sabe como se llama el tema con el que empieza este dvd es el tema que canta elton en la introduccion
@BeelaTeismar never knew he had a drug problem,,seems he was the cleanest there was,,
where can i find the piano sheet for this version?
I LO VE elton, but I think Sting really improved this song. Taupin's lyrics are really used to full effect here.
Who's on the piano there, please?
YDOESJESUSLOVESTING?
Sting does do a better job than Elton, but remember, he had 20+ years to think of how to sing this since he already knew the melody. Elton was cranking out melodies of songs in 20 minutes, then doing a quick run through with the band and recording. I think that counts for something.
Great version, but piano is too prominent in the mix for my taste.
Beautiful, but I prefer Eltons. Sting's is sleepy and a bit one dimensional. The Elton original was one of the most hauntingly beautiful and heartbreaking love songs ever.
Sorry Sting, Elton John is still the balladeer on this tune, smoky voice, naw