My son in law died Sunday, June 30th, 2013 in a drowning accident. His name was Adam. This song was always special to me. Now it has a much deeper significance. I consider Jackson Browne one of the best songwriters ever. R.I.P. Adam. I hope you find peace.
My Lady died on April 8, 2013, far too soon, from cancer. The world is a lesser place without her. But a song for her is in my heart. I wish I had the talent to share it with the world.
My dear Jackson, Adam Saylor’s destination was India but you were destined to be the greatest songwriter and singer / musician./ poet . Thank you for your music!
"Still it seems he stopped his singing in the middle of his song" ...... This could have been the only lyric Jackson ever wrote in his life, and it would have placed him among the Greats.
Uff! My god…I must be a thousand years old. I walked the streets of LA when this song first played, and Jackson himself was still young and …lived nearby. I guess we made it, Jackson! But I wouldn’t say…for sure.
A good friend, in a time when I needed one, played this song for me. Thank you, Matthew. Soooo many years ago, but that moment of bonding between the two of us resonates through the decades since.
One of the most powerful comments I've ever read. Your words evoke every bit of emotion the song listening to does. As long as there's been a night and day there's been a a measure of happy/sad... good/bad, up and down, and so on... They are incapable of being when one is without the other. We must try to embrace and accept both emotions. with trust in ones self to find the balance between the 2.
Reminds me so much of a friend that I spent my youth with, hitchhiking and riding freight trains...we were some of those lost boys...like the one's in the movie "My Own Private Idaho"...it was set in Portland, and that was the city that we settled in for awhile. So painful to think about now, although I learned a lot from those lessons...living on the streets...a lost boy...
Song For Adam made me cry the first time I heard it and it can still move me to tears 41 years later. I can't think of one contemporary songwriter that can move me the way Jackson Browne does.
Has always been one of my favorite Jackson songs....there are so many....will always love this man and his poetry, which he sings with his song.....as only he can.
I have loved this song since it first came out, I would play it over and over but I never really knew why I liked it so much. Now I am much older it means so much more to me as I can relate it to friends I have lost over the years, but I can also relate to it myself as I often wonder about the place my candle has lead me to and the person I have become, I wonder where my candle will lead me to from here?
Great tune, great artist. One of my dear friends of over 40 years recently passed away. He was a big fan of J.Brown and through him I became one. Great song writer. Listening to the song with a heavy heart. Reminds me of my friend.
agree.....listening to it again decades later, i realized adam is me.....i guess i'll get there, but i wouldn't say for sure.....and no, i didn't jump, but i didn't fall either..... probably should have bought more candles, tho........ :)
Such an insighful song. Inspiring, sad, lament, reflecting life ...how short it can be just like a candle's light burning. I always loved this song, it's meaning now is deeper. I lost my mom and mother in law in the same year...."I'm holding out my only candle though it's so little light to find my way....
Jackson has been accused of writing sad songs. One of the greatest writers and singers of that generation, he tells the story the way it is. This song ranks with For a Dancer as perhaps one of Jackson's best. And maybe one of the best songs ever written. Thanks Jigson. (Yes I know that is a typo but it is our family's nickname for this great performer and humanitarian.) Get it?
David Geffin apron hearing this song know he needed to sign Jackson Brown. Despite others who didn’t think he had what it took to become a rock star, Geffin ignored their opinions. I’m glad he did. I liked this song the first time I heard it.
Been playing this a lot recently as a boy in my school just killed himself. He was the younger brother of a girl I used to be friends with; I didn’t know him too well, occasionally we spoke - he was funny - but I wouldn’t say we were close friends. While I am of course saddened by his death, as anyone is when someone as young as 14 dies, I wouldn’t say i’m grieving - not to the extent that his family is at least; I haven’t cried or anything because in my day to day life, things are indifferent. However, his sudden suicide has had me thinking quite a bit these past few days. I knew he was troubled, but I never knew he was that dejected, and although he was kicked out of school a lot he was extremely smart - I do wonder what he could’ve been if he had tried, he had potential. Im just rambling here in the youtube comment section, just comprehending his death, and this Jackson Browne song is speaking to me.
Gregg Allman covered this on his last album before his death. The saying was this song hit him hard because it reminded him of his late brother Duane - and in one verse, he couldn't finish singing and broke down in tears (although you don't hear it on the recording). Powerful.
great song. one of his best slows ones. been listening to it every since it came out, years and years ago. love jackson all his lyrics are so meaningful to me anyway.
Absolute wonder in melody and poetry. A poetry that brings a clear, intense message that can be translated to spanish, for example, with the same effect. Few can get that.
Saw Him play this song at the main point in Bryn Mawr PA. Very well composed song. Ran right home and learned it on guitar. Still play it.. Sweet tune!
I first heard this song on his album, "Late for the Sky" (1974). My memory may be a little fuzzy, but this sounds slightly different from how I recall that version. And while this runs 5m24s, Wikipedia tells me that the Late for the Sky version goes 6m18s. Before the lyrics start here, there's a misspelling of "friend." There are a few discrepancies between this soundtrack, and the overdubbed lyrics in this video (the two marked with - - - * are corrected in the Description): 1st verse, last line: "but I'm thinking that he fell" 1st chorus, 6th line: "But I feel just like a candle in a way" 2nd chorus, 6th line: "Til I fear before I end, I'll fade away" - - - * 3rd chorus, lines 6-8: "Yes, I feel just like a candle in a way" "I hope I get there, "but I never pray" - - - * My "baby" sister once remarked that Jackson Browne wrote basically two kinds of songs - totally frivolous ("Take It Easy," "Running on Empty"), and totally deep (this one, "Fountain of Sorrow," "Before the Deluge," etc.) This is one of my favorite songs of all time, for how deeply it touches me. Since it was born. (I'm within a year of Jackson's age. Curiously, so are Steve Miller and Arlo Guthrie.) Fred
Unaware of this. To my knowledge Browne's Late For The Sky album has the songs: Late For The Sky; Fountain Of Sorrow; Farther On; The Late Show; The Road And The Sky; For A Dancer; Walking Slow; and, Before The Deluge. Song For Adam is not on the album Late For The Sky. Where I am familiar with it is on the album Saturate Before Using. It could easily be on one or another greatest album but it is not on Late For The Sky.
@@tanglewoodband1955 You're right; I stand (actually sit ;-) corrected. It was on his 1972 debut, self-titled album, _Jackson Browne,_ where it runs 5m22s. I was confusing it with another song of his from that era, _Before the Deluge,_ which *is* on "Late for the Sky," and *does* last 6m18s. Fred
Its one of my favorite songs by him i saw him in Miami 3 times the crowd always wanted him 2 sing it all 3 concerts he was with just David Lyley & later he had a full band in the last 2 concerts he was fantastic every time sorry about your cousin. How well did Jackson know your cousin?
Hot Damn ! wink wink~Kathleen aka Having been exposed to all that madness going on during Vietnam. I can't help but to think that all war is so useless. We should all be able to get along together. Another dreamer who just won't give up thinking about the "why" factor.
this story, as if it needed more, has an even sadder aspect. Adam's father made his way to a JB concert, suppose hoping he would play this. He did, Adam's father stood up, and yelled, "this is about my son". And it is. Look it up, won't exactly make you feel good about mankind, but then, many more good people to offer a hand, than the louse who probably caused what happened to Adam. I checked the story form two angles, it is true.
Great song, great singer, great story. Not many contemp artists can craft this depth and poignancy into a lyric. Thanks for posting lb2fast2.. Btw I spotted a couple of minor errors in your lyric text. It's important that they are exactly as he sings it, so proof carefully - more than once. If a JB line doesn't make sense, you know something must be wrong..
@ginad17 First verse (from lyrics in text) - "the story's told that Adam jumped, but I've been thinking that he fell" All the best my friend - Thank you for the visit.
One of my favorite Jackson Browne songs, Thank you for posting this. But I have a couple of questions about the lyrics you've posted. When I've listened to the song, I always thought he sang "I feel just like a candle in a way" rather than I feel just like a candle in the way". And I always heard him sing "That I fear before I end, I'll fade away", not "That I fear before I am a fade away." I have no idea what "a candle in the way" or "I am a fade away" mean. Are those the actual lyrics?
@nseiboth A great loss indeed. And this song has helped many through such similar difficult times, myself included. All the best my friend. All the very best. and "Thank you! for your post." Much appreciated.
I know whereof you speak. My oldest son has been among the ranks of the missing since Easter of 96. He was trying to help defend a neighbor during a gangland home invasion. They found his truck at the bottom of a lake a few months later. Nothing more. I sometimes think I might have raised him wrong. Perhaps one should never go to the defense of lady, or a stranger, or a friend. Then again; Perhaps one should. Godspeed my friend. My Condolences.
My best childhood commited suicide. It had a ben a few years since I talked to Michael and next thing I herd about him was that he took his own life. This song always makes me think of him.
My son in law died Sunday, June 30th, 2013 in a drowning accident. His name was Adam. This song was always special to me. Now it has a much deeper significance. I consider Jackson Browne one of the best songwriters ever. R.I.P. Adam. I hope you find peace.
My Lady died on April 8, 2013, far too soon, from cancer. The world is a lesser place without her. But a song for her is in my heart. I wish I had the talent to share it with the world.
My dear Jackson, Adam Saylor’s destination was India but you were destined to be the greatest songwriter and singer / musician./ poet . Thank you for your music!
Brings back memories ,so present , the loss of letting go, the candle is down and the Sun is up ,even in this colorful rain.
Not just a song for anyone who has lost someone, but for anyone who has been lost themselves.
"Still it seems he stopped his singing in the middle of his song" ...... This could have been the only lyric Jackson ever wrote in his life, and it would have placed him among the Greats.
Jackson Browne's Song for Adam tugs at my heart and brings tears to my eyes, always.
me too, for friends lost, but fortunately at much older an age than Adam's
Jackson Browne: when Poetry and Music fall in love each other!
Uff! My god…I must be a thousand years old. I walked the streets of LA when this song first played, and Jackson himself was still young and …lived nearby. I guess we made it, Jackson! But I wouldn’t say…for sure.
The most haunting song ever. The deepest darkest fear of anyone alive.
A good friend, in a time when I needed one, played this song for me. Thank you, Matthew. Soooo many years ago, but that moment of bonding between the two of us resonates through the decades since.
One of the most powerful comments I've ever read. Your words evoke every bit of emotion the song listening to does. As long as there's been a night and day there's been a a measure of happy/sad... good/bad, up and down, and so on... They are incapable of being when one is without the other. We must try to embrace and accept both emotions. with trust in ones self to find the balance between the 2.
Reminds me so much of a friend that I spent my youth with, hitchhiking and riding freight trains...we were some of those lost boys...like the one's in the movie "My Own Private Idaho"...it was set in Portland, and that was the city that we settled in for awhile. So painful to think about now, although I learned a lot from those lessons...living on the streets...a lost boy...
Song For Adam made me cry the first time I heard it and it can still move me to tears 41 years later. I can't think of one contemporary songwriter that can move me the way Jackson Browne does.
Hadn't listened to this in decades, it is more meaningful now following the death of my son who definitely stopped singing in the middle of his song.
Gregg Allman recorded a version of this on his final album that is unreal. What a powerful song !
His songs are truly inspiring thank u sir
Um does anybody else know that Jackson has written some of the most beautiful songs ever? He has a grasp of it. Thank goodness.
Has always been one of my favorite Jackson songs....there are so many....will always love this man and his poetry, which he sings with his song.....as only he can.
A lyrical genius and a really good guy too
Such a beautiful song.
wonderful touching song for all of those we lost
I have loved this song since it first came out, I would play it over and over but I never really knew why I liked it so much. Now I am much older it means so much more to me as I can relate it to friends I have lost over the years, but I can also relate to it myself as I often wonder about the place my candle has lead me to and the person I have become, I wonder where my candle will lead me to from here?
Great tune, great artist. One of my dear friends of over 40 years recently passed away. He was a big fan of J.Brown and through him I became one. Great song writer. Listening to the song with a heavy heart. Reminds me of my friend.
agree.....listening to it again decades later, i realized adam is me.....i guess i'll get there, but i wouldn't say for sure.....and no, i didn't jump, but i didn't fall either.....
probably should have bought more candles, tho........ :)
This song speaks to me on so many levels, I have always liked it since first hearing it in the 70"s.
Beautiful song...I have to be brief. Words a re too short to express the feeling in my heart.
Amazing Masterpiece, amen to that!
Such an insighful song. Inspiring, sad, lament, reflecting life ...how short it can be just like a candle's light burning. I always loved this song, it's meaning now is deeper. I lost my mom and mother in law in the same year...."I'm holding out my only candle though it's so little light to find my way....
love this song so happy i am going to see Jackson Browne in Montreal this April just got the ticket
Pure poetry.The heart of life
Thanks for your re turn
Jackson has been accused of writing sad songs. One of the greatest writers and singers of that generation, he tells the story the way it is. This song ranks with For a Dancer as perhaps one of Jackson's best. And maybe one of the best songs ever written. Thanks Jigson. (Yes I know that is a typo but it is our family's nickname for this great performer and humanitarian.) Get it?
One of my favorite albums ever.
David Geffin apron hearing this song know he needed to sign Jackson Brown. Despite others who didn’t think he had what it took to become a rock star, Geffin ignored their opinions. I’m glad he did.
I liked this song the first time I heard it.
his very best song.......ever
Been playing this a lot recently as a boy in my school just killed himself.
He was the younger brother of a girl I used to be friends with; I didn’t know him too well, occasionally we spoke - he was funny - but I wouldn’t say we were close friends.
While I am of course saddened by his death, as anyone is when someone as young as 14 dies, I wouldn’t say i’m grieving - not to the extent that his family is at least; I haven’t cried or anything because in my day to day life, things are indifferent. However, his sudden suicide has had me thinking quite a bit these past few days. I knew he was troubled, but I never knew he was that dejected, and although he was kicked out of school a lot he was extremely smart - I do wonder what he could’ve been if he had tried, he had potential.
Im just rambling here in the youtube comment section, just comprehending his death, and this Jackson Browne song is speaking to me.
Gregg Allman covered this on his last album before his death. The saying was this song hit him hard because it reminded him of his late brother Duane - and in one verse, he couldn't finish singing and broke down in tears (although you don't hear it on the recording). Powerful.
I've loved this song since it first came out when I was in college.
A gift
This is another great, deeply profound Jackson Browne song! This is a truly great album! Peace, BobbyK
great song. one of his best slows ones. been listening to it every since it came out, years and years ago. love jackson all his lyrics are so meaningful to me anyway.
A girl I didn't know very well but nonetheless knew, took her own life a few days ago. I thought of this song.
ricordi di un periodo bellissimo della mia vita
I keep coming back to his older music looking for that weeping, singing violin.
R.I.P. Jose my friend... i have felt you visit during this song... thank you.... see you someday....maybe?
Absolute wonder in melody and poetry. A poetry that brings a clear, intense message that can be translated to spanish, for example, with the same effect. Few can get that.
So beautiful I can't speak.
Saw Him play this song at the main point in Bryn Mawr PA. Very well composed song. Ran right home and learned it on guitar. Still play it.. Sweet tune!
the main point in bryn mawr......kinda like a time long long ago, in a galaxy far far way.........
maybe it is this one??? th-cam.com/video/UUnIDTEwxWo/w-d-xo.html
Beautiful song.
Great performance.
All about this song...Great..♥♥♥
Watched Jackson Browne on a show called Laurel Canyon showed all the artists back in the day
I first heard this song on his album, "Late for the Sky" (1974). My memory may be a little fuzzy, but this sounds slightly different from how I recall that version.
And while this runs 5m24s, Wikipedia tells me that the Late for the Sky version goes 6m18s.
Before the lyrics start here, there's a misspelling of "friend."
There are a few discrepancies between this soundtrack, and the overdubbed lyrics in this video (the two marked with - - - * are corrected in the Description):
1st verse, last line: "but I'm thinking that he fell"
1st chorus, 6th line: "But I feel just like a candle in a way"
2nd chorus, 6th line: "Til I fear before I end, I'll fade away" - - - *
3rd chorus, lines 6-8: "Yes, I feel just like a candle in a way"
"I hope I get there,
"but I never pray" - - - *
My "baby" sister once remarked that Jackson Browne wrote basically two kinds of songs - totally frivolous ("Take It Easy," "Running on Empty"), and totally deep (this one, "Fountain of Sorrow," "Before the Deluge," etc.)
This is one of my favorite songs of all time, for how deeply it touches me. Since it was born. (I'm within a year of Jackson's age. Curiously, so are Steve Miller and Arlo Guthrie.)
Fred
Unaware of this. To my knowledge Browne's Late For The Sky album has the songs: Late For The Sky; Fountain Of Sorrow; Farther On; The Late Show; The Road And The Sky; For A Dancer; Walking Slow; and, Before The Deluge. Song For Adam is not on the album Late For The Sky. Where I am familiar with it is on the album Saturate Before Using. It could easily be on one or another greatest album but it is not on Late For The Sky.
@@tanglewoodband1955 You're right; I stand (actually sit ;-) corrected.
It was on his 1972 debut, self-titled album, _Jackson Browne,_ where it runs 5m22s.
I was confusing it with another song of his from that era, _Before the Deluge,_ which *is* on "Late for the Sky," and *does* last 6m18s.
Fred
Wow, I haven't heard this song in many, many years. What a masterpiece. Thanks for the post.
There is a meditative quality to your play lists, makes me think and feel. It’s a mad mad world. Peace.
Good point. Excellent point. yes indeed...... Thank You! for the visit and the post. All the best my friend. All the very best.
So deep in emotion.
THAT I FEAR BEFORE I ... END ... ILL FADE AWAY
"Now the story's told that Adam jumped / but I'm thinking that he fell..."
very nice my friend, and happy to see you around us again
I think you just did.
All the best my friend.
My Condolences....
One of the saddest songs I know
YES FINALLY I FOUND IT!!!!!
This is amazing .
Its one of my favorite songs by him i saw him in Miami 3 times the crowd always wanted him 2 sing it all 3 concerts he was with just David Lyley & later he had a full band in the last 2 concerts he was fantastic every time sorry about your cousin. How well did Jackson know your cousin?
Hot Damn ! wink wink~Kathleen aka
Having been exposed to all that madness going on during Vietnam. I can't help but to think that all war is so useless. We should all be able to get along together. Another dreamer who just won't give up thinking about the "why" factor.
this story, as if it needed more, has an even sadder aspect. Adam's father made his way to a JB concert, suppose hoping he would play this. He did, Adam's father stood up, and yelled, "this is about my son". And it is. Look it up, won't exactly make you feel good about mankind, but then, many more good people to offer a hand, than the louse who probably caused what happened to Adam. I checked the story form two angles, it is true.
María del Mar Bonet made in Catalonian language a great cover of this song.
Thanks to ib2fast2 for uploading this video and for the lyrics.
lyrics are actually:"... I fear before I end I'll fade away"
Yes. I noticed the same thing. I makes a big difference , in my opinion!
Great song, great singer, great story. Not many contemp artists can craft this depth and poignancy into a lyric. Thanks for posting lb2fast2.. Btw I spotted a couple of minor errors in your lyric text. It's important that they are exactly as he sings it, so proof carefully - more than once. If a JB line doesn't make sense, you know something must be wrong..
Sweet Dreams Dano, Travel Long, Travel Far...
Hope my neighbor likes this one
@ginad17 First verse (from lyrics in text) - "the story's told that Adam jumped,
but I've been thinking that he fell"
All the best my friend - Thank you for the visit.
One of my favorite Jackson Browne songs, Thank you for posting this. But I have a couple of questions about the lyrics you've posted. When I've listened to the song, I always thought he sang "I feel just like a candle in a way" rather than I feel just like a candle in the way". And I always heard him sing "That I fear before I end, I'll fade away", not "That I fear before I am a fade away." I have no idea what "a candle in the way" or "I am a fade away" mean. Are those the actual lyrics?
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@nseiboth A great loss indeed. And this song has helped many through such similar difficult times, myself included. All the best my friend. All the very best.
and
"Thank you! for your post."
Much appreciated.
Fantastic dedication. Many thanks for uploading. Enjoy the rest of the weekend. Hugs..Jan and Susan ♥
I know whereof you speak. My oldest son has been among the ranks of the missing since Easter of 96. He was trying to help defend a neighbor during a gangland home invasion. They found his truck at the bottom of a lake a few months later. Nothing more. I sometimes think I might have raised him wrong. Perhaps one should never go to the defense of lady, or a stranger, or a friend. Then again; Perhaps one should. Godspeed my friend. My Condolences.
@ib2fast2 my deepest condolences to you. I'm sure you raised your son very well.
If I had succeeded this is the song my friends would have played for me. Glad my car was safer than my old one
:) What could possibly be better?
All the best my friend.
Thank you.
i played this in a salvation army house in Melbourne 1993 and made good friends
My best childhood commited suicide. It had a ben a few years since I talked to Michael and next thing I herd about him was that he took his own life. This song always makes me think of him.
Should be "That before I end, I'll fade away" Thanks
This song should be in guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 for Adam Warlock
But I'm thinking he fell!
I hear echoes of Townes Van Zandt
Alan Jackson songs
God bless you JACKSON Brown or whatever your real name is. Curse the CIA
🌹😇♥️
@nseiboth HOW did he die? i rode my bicycle 2500mi across india alone and i sang this song to pass the miles many a time
@nseiboth
Thanks for the facts. Are you thinking Adam jumped or fell? Peace.
@nseiboth How did he die?
@nseiboth Wow.