Better late than never, mate! Any fan of the Magic Captain's is a friend of mine! I was lucky enough to discover him at the tender age of 17, back in '72... when I saw him live, for the first time, at Bickershaw Festival... Britain's answer to 'Woodstock'! What a fab weekend... in spite of the fact that it also rivalled Woodstock for the rain and the mud... in fact, I think Bickershaw had Woodstock beat hands down for the rain and the mud! But the Magic Capatain's set was so magical it set me up as a life-long fan! (Often to the dismay of my mates! LOL!) All the best mate, from Down Unda! Have a nice day! 😁
In the 3rd yr. of my search for the girl I KNEW was my soulmate, but fate separated us. Am 65 & married once, but have never really loved another as I have Leslie. I LIVE this song every day. Only The Great One, Captain Beef-heart could say it so profoundly bittersweet. In this tune it's the singer AND the song! Thanks for the upload boss
Definitely one of the best songs on Clear Spot. Brilliant in showing just how diverse this man could be. Compare this to anything on Trout Mask Replica. This dude could do everything and do it well. One of the greatest artists in the history of music, no doubt about it.
"Ashtray Heart" live on SNL was AMAZING.Can't imagine how intense it was to see on TV in 1980. John Belushi is the reason Capt BH and Fear were on SNL in 80 + 81.
I'm in the 3rd yr of my searching for the girl I KNEW was my Soulmate when I was just 19-but fate sepetated us. I'm 65 now,married once & several years long relationships. But I've never loved any woman as I did & still do Leslie. I LIVE this song every day and only Don could tell it so profoundly and sing it so beautifully bitter sweet. In this tune it's the singer and the song! Thanks for the upload guy.
I'll let a train be my feet If it's too far to walk to you If a train don't go there I'll get a jet or a bus Because I'm going to find you You're going to see me shadow soon around you And my head is my only house unless it rains I walk the meadow plains Water deserts are my eyes until I find you I won't sleep until I find you I won't eat until I find you My heart won't beat until I wrap my arms around you My arms are just two things in the way Until I can wrap them around you You can make my sad song happy Make a bad world good I can feel you out there moving You're mine, I know I'll find you And my head is my only house until I've found you I hate to have other people hear me sing this song If this reaches you before I do Follow it to "I love you" That's where I'll find you And my head is my only house until I find you
Thank you from an italian who understands just a lottle english. Van Vliet, hope you met Frank anywhere in the universe an have some fun near the stars.
The Tubes, another great S.F. band, released this beautiful ballad on one of their recordings. Don was obviously a complex character capable of tremendously varied compositions. This is among his most tender & romantic.
This about says it all for me. A masterpiece. The best love song- ever. Tender beyond belief. The man had a magnet for a heart, compelling and drawing everyone in to just...feel love.
If you LOVE the Captain, you love his soul....I get a little emotional with "My Head...Some of his compromised records...I pay no mind..He was a fuckin artist....not a businesman....I wannna cry when i hear this fuckin song
I'm in the 3rd yr. of my search for the girl I KNEW was my soul-mate, but fate separated us. Am 65 & married once, but have never really loved another as I have Leslie. I LIVE this song every day. Only The Great One, Captain Beef-heart could say it so profoundly bittersweet. In this tune it's the singer AND the song! Thanks for the upload man.
Nobody could stop time and make us listen like he did. Profound lyrics again and again. His wide range of emotions and lyrical delivery drew us in like a magnet. His assembly of musicians played as directed by his exquisite ear. I feel blessed for having drunk in his music.
I played this at my husband's funeral been looking for the track for a lpng time my soul mate doed xmas eve 91 I've had one relationship since cos I fall for the mind not the looks and though I didn't realise the other man was so like my Paul even though one was black and my husband white they also were physically alike RIP my crazy diamond
I with ya-the best lyrical moment of any song I've heard...For me, it's halfway due to the context-he ends the previous verse with the line "my heart won't beat until I wrap my arms around you," then there's the instrumental part build-up to the third verse, and he comes back with same concept about "arms." Genius And it's halfway due to the fact that it is just an amazing line that would be beautifully poetic in any context.
Thank you for making available.This music has helped me a lot when I was young, and sometimes close to edge of the abyss. That was a good 25 years,-but the magic is still working, I'm always very grateful, to both survival helpers the captain and the Big-Nose Frank.
_"I listen to different tracks depending on the mood I'm in"_ What a weird approach to music appreciation: I consume musical entertainment products based upon a complex system of Taxonomical Classification, astrological portents & omens, and my girlfriend's tolerance / menstrual cycle, in that order (the last being a minor factor, given the imaginary nature of my girlfriend)
straight up...my favorite love song of all time. music Whenever it's my time to leave, I want this song to send my energy off to wherever it goes. Lyrics full of tender love and music that is eternally beautiful.
One of the few "normal" songs Don did, and this one is even great and wonderful to listen to. I have enjoyed it for almost 50 years now. Thank you! Safe as milk 😎
@babsinjrzy I'm only 19 myself, my friend turned me onto Safe As Milk years ago and I never looked back. I wish I was so fortunate to grow up in an era where the modern music was half as great as anything spawned by Don or Frank. Thanks for the comment. =]
Incredible voice ... though I'm kinda glad he IS underrated - if the Captain's commercial aspirations had been fulfilled (i.e. "Unconditionally Guaranteed") I think it would have cheapened his great legacy.
@Revanlation Thank you fellow music lover for uploading this album!! I've got it but wanted to share it with younger music lovers who never heard him or of him. I was blessed to have been in my early 20's when this hit. Him and Zappa ♥♥♥ ♫ ♥
My idea of heaven is listening to this sitting on a deck chair in Greece a spliff in one hand and a cocktail in the other watching the sun go down over the horizon.Bliss.
I found it difficult to listen to the captain in 72 when I was 16 but I now get it. this is great bluesy jazzy music and I will definenatly listen to his other less commercial stuff!
Got this album when it first came out. Love all the songs on it. This one describes how captivating and all consuming the memory of a brief encounter with a compelling woman can be and how the thirst to see her again trumps everything else.
Cecil Treadwell Me too....reminds me of a wonderful relationship with a wonderful man. He'd quote the lyrics in love letters to me. I treasure the memories.
Have you heard the Everything But the Girl version on this track? It's a beautiful review of this beautiful song... So intense and sincere as this original version... Search for it.
52 years on this planet and I've only just discovered this gem. Shame on me
There's a lot of music out there. But I get what you are saying.
Better late than never, mate! Any fan of the Magic Captain's is a friend of mine! I was lucky enough to discover him at the tender age of 17, back in '72... when I saw him live, for the first time, at Bickershaw Festival... Britain's answer to 'Woodstock'! What a fab weekend... in spite of the fact that it also rivalled Woodstock for the rain and the mud... in fact, I think Bickershaw had Woodstock beat hands down for the rain and the mud! But the Magic Capatain's set was so magical it set me up as a life-long fan! (Often to the dismay of my mates! LOL!)
All the best mate, from Down Unda! Have a nice day! 😁
No one will ever match the man.
I hope, one day, I'll meet a person who loves this song as i do
Here I am. I absolutely love this song. Nearly as much as I love the captain ❤❤❤❤❤❤
That would be me... Good luck finding someone else.
@@cliffspencer9989 Great pfp👍
Now now no squabbling i win lol ❤❤❤❤
Well , what AM I, chopped peyote ???
In the 3rd yr. of my search for the girl I KNEW was my soulmate, but fate separated us. Am 65 & married once, but have never really loved another as I have Leslie. I LIVE this song every day. Only The Great One, Captain Beef-heart could say it so profoundly bittersweet. In this tune it's the singer AND the song!
Thanks for the upload boss
Definitely one of the best songs on Clear Spot. Brilliant in showing just how diverse this man could be. Compare this to anything on Trout Mask Replica. This dude could do everything and do it well. One of the greatest artists in the history of music, no doubt about it.
It' s so clear, so sad happyness..., it takes me to a water-like world.
agree one of the best on this album.
Mmmm this is a tasty burger.
Damn.
Preach, Mr. Doom
Captain Beefhart greatly loved and missed.
The most beautiful love song ever written heard it in 78 still stands the test of time the captain deserved a better rank
all the greatest artists are most appreciated long after they leave us
"Ashtray Heart" live on SNL was AMAZING.Can't imagine how intense it was to see on TV in 1980.
John Belushi is the reason Capt BH and Fear were on SNL in 80 + 81.
Still had 78 rpm records in 72? ha
What a TASTY song. He knew when to let it go and when to rein it in. Miss you Cap!
Have always loved this - we love each other like this. Love Don because of this.... my arms are just two things in the way....
Quite possibly the best love song ever written and sang.
My arms are just two things in the way, ti'll I can wrap them around you
Brick bats is beautiful as well.
🎯🎯🎯
This is why I LOVE You Tube! I can find sweet ditty's like this that were never played even on FM radio. Beautiful. Georgous
Even when it comes to love songs, Beefheart and the band beat everyone else out
Full of emotions that only a genius like this can express.not for everyone but few people who do. it goes deep into the soul!
I'm in the 3rd yr of my searching for the girl I KNEW was my Soulmate when I was just 19-but fate sepetated us. I'm 65 now,married once & several years long relationships. But I've never loved any woman as I did & still do Leslie.
I LIVE this song every day and only Don could tell it so profoundly and sing it so beautifully bitter sweet. In this tune it's the singer and the song!
Thanks for the upload guy.
Pure love
Shit...
Any luck, Gene?
Blimey!
Well, shit. Best wishes, my man
I'll let a train be my feet
If it's too far to walk to you
If a train don't go there I'll get a jet or a bus
Because I'm going to find you
You're going to see me shadow soon around you
And my head is my only house unless it rains
I walk the meadow plains
Water deserts are my eyes until I find you
I won't sleep until I find you
I won't eat until I find you
My heart won't beat until
I wrap my arms around you
My arms are just two things in the way
Until I can wrap them around you
You can make my sad song happy
Make a bad world good
I can feel you out there moving
You're mine, I know I'll find you
And my head is my only house until I've found you
I hate to have other people hear me sing this song
If this reaches you before I do
Follow it to "I love you"
That's where I'll find you
And my head is my only house until I find you
Thank you from an italian who understands just a lottle english.
Van Vliet, hope you met Frank anywhere in the universe an have some fun near the stars.
Thank you.
@@thelantern9075 maybe we miss the last of this kind of musicicians who were able to create beauty, emocion.
love beefheart. more than life itself. but the lyrics on this song are freaking terrible.
@@richb3326 you need to go back to your steady diet of shit (Journey Bon Jovi and Kiss)
The Tubes, another great S.F. band, released this beautiful ballad on one of their recordings. Don was obviously a complex character capable of tremendously varied compositions. This is among his most tender & romantic.
Bill Spooner and The Tubes definitely did this song justice!!❤️
the day that love came to stay ❤
One of the best albums of the 70s. Best when alone in the dark at 3 am start to finish. Fantastic musicians, Fantastic production. NMB
This about says it all for me. A masterpiece. The best love song- ever. Tender beyond belief. The man had a magnet for a heart, compelling and drawing everyone in to just...feel love.
Tender yet firm. Passionate yet paced. Beautiful.
If you LOVE the Captain, you love his soul....I get a little emotional with "My Head...Some of his compromised records...I pay no mind..He was a fuckin artist....not a businesman....I wannna cry when i hear this fuckin song
I'm in the 3rd yr. of my search for the girl I KNEW was my soul-mate, but fate separated us. Am 65 & married once, but have never really loved another as I have Leslie. I LIVE this song every day. Only The Great One, Captain Beef-heart could say it so profoundly bittersweet. In this tune it's the singer AND the song!
Thanks for the upload man.
Nobody could stop time and make us listen like he did.
Profound lyrics again and again.
His wide range of emotions and lyrical delivery drew us in like a magnet.
His assembly of musicians played as directed by his exquisite ear. I feel blessed for having drunk in his music.
Your comment is poetic as this song.
I played this at my husband's funeral been looking for the track for a lpng time my soul mate doed xmas eve 91 I've had one relationship since cos I fall for the mind not the looks and though I didn't realise the other man was so like my Paul even though one was black and my husband white they also were physically alike RIP my crazy diamond
Marie Smith where u been all my life
Patrick Mahoney, Yes.
The best song title of all times, this one in my opinion.
My favorite lyrics... My arms are just two things in the way til I can wrap them around you.
I thought that when I first heard it .
Definitely
Same.
I with ya-the best lyrical moment of any song I've heard...For me, it's halfway due to the context-he ends the previous verse with the line "my heart won't beat until I wrap my arms around you," then there's the instrumental part build-up to the third verse, and he comes back with same concept about "arms." Genius
And it's halfway due to the fact that it is just an amazing line that would be beautifully poetic in any context.
what an amazing album
This so clearly reminds me of a love affair i had.Thankyou Gerry P for turning me on to the Captain. Thanks for the memories.
Thanks Captain my Captain....I'll never forget you my friend..
A beautiful love song in all it's glory audio resonance!
my arms are just two things in the way till i can wrap them around you, instant tears line
Thank you for making available.This music has helped me a lot when I was young, and sometimes close to edge of the abyss. That was a good 25 years,-but the magic is still working, I'm always very grateful, to both survival helpers the captain and the Big-Nose Frank.
Can’t believe I heard this song for the first time today! At 70 yo. On Theodora Richard’s show on Sirius XM.
Even though I prefer the Captain's weirder stuff... this song is undeniably beautiful. Just awesome.
_"I listen to different tracks depending on the mood I'm in"_
What a weird approach to music appreciation: I consume musical entertainment products based upon a complex system of Taxonomical Classification, astrological portents & omens, and my girlfriend's tolerance / menstrual cycle, in that order (the last being a minor factor, given the imaginary nature of my girlfriend)
@@soundgardener4940 nice LARP
@@soundgardener4940 The average Scaruffi fan
@@soundgardener4940
Interesting about your giirfriend....especially that it is part of her nature to imagination!
Goodness and interesting mostly
makes me cry , touches me and make me miss my friends from those days.
My favourite song of all time. If I get to heaven I want this guitar riff playing forever.
straight up...my favorite love song of all time. music Whenever it's my time to leave, I want this song to send my energy off to wherever it goes. Lyrics full of tender love and music that is eternally beautiful.
This song is beyond beautiful friend.
I love this man and this song....he is unique......!
Always loved this and “Too much time”
One of the few "normal" songs Don did, and this one is even great and wonderful to listen to. I have enjoyed it for almost 50 years now. Thank you! Safe as milk 😎
Absolutely beautiful, god bless you Captain x
Just an underrated soul. Authentic blues voice and unique vision.
This song was always special to me because I lived it. Very special and true.
Sweet soulfulness twists and turns. So beautiful.
Takes me back to my beloved of 10 + years ago - still loving you Ben ...
nice ♥
Beefheart.Legendary.
One of many beautiful numbers by the genius Don van Vleit
One of his best songs! Timeless music
A more perfect ballad can't be found.
@babsinjrzy I'm only 19 myself, my friend turned me onto Safe As Milk years ago and I never looked back. I wish I was so fortunate to grow up in an era where the modern music was half as great as anything spawned by Don or Frank. Thanks for the comment. =]
I like the tonal changes in beefhearts voice from track to track. very underated I feel.
Incredible voice ... though I'm kinda glad he IS underrated - if the Captain's commercial aspirations had been fulfilled (i.e. "Unconditionally Guaranteed") I think it would have cheapened his great legacy.
the mystery and magic everything he created was strange this album proved he could write anything !x
UNDERATED.....he's only regarded as one of the greatest rock and rollers ever.....TMR has won best album ever countless times.....
Just hell and paradise...
Hermosa canción, no me canso de escucharla!
Gracias Capitán ❤
Great album and track by the Captain
@Revanlation Thank you fellow music lover for uploading this album!! I've got it but wanted to share it with younger music lovers who never heard him or of him. I was blessed to have been in my early 20's when this hit. Him and Zappa ♥♥♥ ♫ ♥
Totally love this song. Still listening to this in 2020.💗
Beautiful
My idea of heaven is listening to this sitting on a deck chair in Greece a spliff in one hand and a cocktail in the other watching the sun go down over the horizon.Bliss.
I can’t argue with that sir 👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️❤️
Come and join me,if you like.I would also like too play Tropical Hot Dog Night.Therest is up to you ❤😊❤
@@terri-b7492 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍👍
Wish I could play this to someone.
A GENIUS!
I found it difficult to listen to the captain in 72 when I was 16 but I now get it. this is great bluesy jazzy music and I will definenatly listen to his other less commercial stuff!
I sing this song in my head ,all the time !!
Master at work.
Love this sparse bass line on this....exquisitely blissful!
I never thought that nearly forty years later I would be back only to find theses songs more poignant than ever!
I had almost forgotton how great this album is, thanks for taking the time putting it up
Just divine
That old meat man music... ya can't beat it son.
An unrecognized genius, for the most part.
One of my favorite albums
this was my world....my head was my only house unless it rained,
Lovin' this.
Classic ballad from a classic album! Still nothing like him out there, and to me that is fine, true artist and not one to imitate...
Got this album when it first came out. Love all the songs on it. This one describes how captivating and all consuming the memory of a brief encounter with a compelling woman can be and how the thirst to see her again trumps everything else.
Cecil Treadwell Me too....reminds me of a wonderful relationship with a wonderful man. He'd quote the lyrics in love letters to me. I treasure the memories.
This song is perfect.
Beautiful ballad by Don
Solid heart longing heart. Essential.
Awesome lyrics….Timeless
I love this Song.
"There's a Fire in the sky!"
Gerald Parford....thanks for the memories !
Great sounds don't make like that anymore,sound great in another 50 years
The Captain could say it like no one else.
He was the most creative man ever .
Its like Robert Smith 1.0 (Unique love songs!)
Smooth passion, dedication. Very, very nice.
So bloody gorgeous
Beautiful lyrics.
Have you heard the Everything But the Girl version on this track? It's a beautiful review of this beautiful song... So intense and sincere as this original version... Search for it.
love ebtg take on this
This a beautiful song, but I would like to hear an instrumental of it. The music is sooo pretty.Not even long enough
You might like the version by "The Tubes". Slower, sweeter.
what a great song!
Thank you my captain!
Was late in December..sky turned to snow ...all around the day went slow....
Time passages.
Captain hits so many levels. Love it
Beefheart could have been a commercial hit. Thanks Don, for not choosing to do so.
Sometimes you just got to hug yourself like a teenage artichoke , if that's not probable, theres always this song. Love and love
Tears from deep in my soul
Sublime.
The Tubes covered this smash hit platinum selling song.
It's amazing.
Just loop this Beast and enjoy your Transformation :-)
This is how you do a ballad!!!
Beef taking it down
+Frankincensed Why you are in every video I watch?
damn it does it get any more beautiful?
DANG!! WHAT SONG!!!!
The Tubes did a great cover of this smash hit song.
Great peace i like the Tubes version to
The tubes!!