Jacob, Let me start by saying that your music is absolutely incredible. I wanted to tell you that one of your songs in particular has had an incredible effect on me. I recently lost my beautiful wife of 25 years after a long illness. I was by myself, just wanting to listen to something soothing, and your music came to mind. I started a playlist on RU-vid, and the 2nd song was one I had never heard before. "In The Real Early Morning". As the beautiful sound filled my ears, the lyrics progressed. It was as if you had written this just for that moment in time for me. I was overwhelmed with emotions. I have listened to it at least once a day since then. I cry every time, but I know that my life with my wife was worth everything we went through together. I just thought you should know what amazing power you have, to create such deep emotional feelings in people. It is an amazing gift you have, and give to the world. I am so glad I discovered you, and this song in particular. It gives me peace, comfort, and memories of the love of my life. Thank you so very much
John Miller My mind is with you. I also cry everytime I hear the song. To read stories, emotions and feelings of others while listening to this song is so nice. The power of this song that bring's people together. Cry together. Its, as you said, a gift and Im so thankful to know this song and to know Jacobs songs in general. He is one of the best musicians that have ever lived to me. Have a good day with that song in your ear and memories in your mind and heart.
I have sung this as a lullaby to my daughter ever since she was around 9 months old. She turns six next month. Thank you, Jacob - you have impacted people in ways you may never know.
...... ..... yes. He follows the structure of the human condition more than the historical structures of music. It’s refreshing. It’s truer. It’s honest. And it undoes me.
In the real early morning With the sun slowly rising I was walking out slowly Wandering free When out in the distance Over the valley I saw an old friend Waiting for me Waiting for me She was a young girl She was an old soul As fair as the ocean Timeless and free She was my mother She was my daughter She was my lover She was everything An old friend could be I said, "It's been such a long time Since we have spoken There's so much to say to you I want you to know I wish you could tell me All that you've seen here But we haven't got long now For soon, you'll be fading And soon, I must go" [Bridge: Instrumental] I know the way home She said "You are a soldier You are a father You are a wise man You are a friend You were my first love I won't forget you I'm walking beside you I was here when you started I'll be here till the end" And now it's the evening There's a moon slowly rising (ooh, ooh) There isn't much more that I wanted to know, wanted to know And I am alone now She isn't beside me no more But I feel no sorrow I'd come tomorrow I'll be on my way home I'll be on my way home
Very few comments on youtube open my tear ducts, but paired with this music, I am definitely touched to that point. I feel you, Goose...thank you for opening up to us all :)
Dan Reynolds thanks for share bro. I lost my wife but she is still alive I am trying my best to be the best father I can. Be the best you can, live your life, doesn’t matter what happens!
I lost my mother last Dezember. During the last 5 years I've always had time to go visit her, but I never did it. I was always too busy chasing after my professional success. After such a long time without seeing her, I finally saw her, but inside a coffin. At that moment, I wished I had just one more hug, one more word, one more caress. Oh, so many things that were not said, and now all the stories I've had with her are inside of me and with no one who can give the sense that only she could. That is where this song comes in. It fills an unexplained void. It comforts me. I would like to have said one more thing to her... Mom, it's been such a long time, there's so much to say to you, I'll come tomorrow, I'll be on my way home, I'll be on my way home.
Paulo Boff thank you good sir. The healing of music, my friend, the healing of music. I am blessed with many fortunes, luckily, and one of which is my mother. While I cannot understand your pain, I appreciate it. And thank you Jacob. Thank you Paulo for sharing this.
I thought RU-vid was buffering at that first stop 😂 It's really something new to hear a person using that silence in a song. Everything this guy does is new and innovative, but silence in a song is just so underrated, and this song proves it.
for so long i figured this was an arrangement of some classic song, the lyrics and melody just have that quality to them, i never realized this was an original song, it's definitely deserving of more notoriety.
This boy is an ancient ancient soul,who on some level remembers past lives & the order of the universe.He has been sent to us now,this earth angel, for many reasons,not least to inject some light & calm in these troubled dark times on this, what should be,beautiful planet.🤗💗🙏
Its early morning, Jacob. My husband just brought me coffee in bed. He has been doing this for 30 years. I can hear the waves on the shores of the Sea of Cortez, Baja, Mexico. I came across this song purely by ‘accident’. But you and I know there are no accidents, right? I felt like I was riding a wave of pure delight. Your beautiful voice just landed in my lap, plop! God just dropped it there like a diamond kiss from the early morning pink clouds because today, Jacob, today I needed to feel the depth of an old soul. Thank you, brother, for expressing your heart.
Man, wtf, this made me cry outta nowhere, I've seen a couple of his interviews, and how he talks about harmonies and the was he uses them, to create an emotion, and I can really see what he means, he treats music like a science and a form of expression, the most important things, and I can see that portrayed in this song, looks so simple, but sad at the same time, just great, I'm starting to think this guy ir really a genius, but the thing is, his music is too complex for more simpler ears (iike mine), with all of that, I can still appreciate his talent
The incredible voice...the perfect timing...what husband/father/brother can listen to this without crying? And this from a 21-year-old? I am dumb-struck.
The trine quality of the "old friend", mother, daughter and lover reminds me of the typical interpretation of the christian God, with a feminine quality in it. I personally feel this song as a reconciliation with and an eventual departure from the transcendent and the relationship with it lived in different periods of life and even in death
This is why we love Jacob, not just his musical genius but the overwhelming emotions he portrays through his songs. Anyone could relate to this song in a way, there's something that everyone can understand whether they understand music or not. It touched my soul, I hope it touched yours too. man I'm crying like a bitch
Jacobs music actually evokes in open listeners the recall of our own innate eternal reality - or the visceral knowing of love & beauty through our human experience.
This is just so transcendent.. The way he describes this anima, this soul is just so.. it makes you feel like he just brought you there, introduced this omniscient spirit that represents everything to you. It makes you feel both incredibly minuscule and insignificant but at the same time like you've reached transcendence and omnipotence at the same time. Like he's just forged you a personal key to a theoretical theory of everything. Both his lyricism and harmonic painting just blends so perfectly to induce these thoughts in this one.
i cant even.. the comment section even proves that everybody cant even. mastery on so many layers and depths it just silences me. you're a gift to us all.
Almost 6 years, and I still cry every time I listen to it. But it brings me comfort at the same time. Thank you, Jacob Collier. You're a gift to anyone who loves music
I reckon that Jacob's music actually evokes in open listeners the recall of our own innate eternal reality - or the visceral knowing of love & beauty through our human experience.
A year on and it still makes me cry like a baby every time I listen. Seriously one of the most beautiful, sincere, and heartfelt pieces of music ever recorded.
In the real early morning With the sun slowly rising I was walking out slowly Wandering free When out in the distance Over the valley I saw and old friend Waiting for me Waiting for me She was a young girl She was an old soul As fair as the ocean Timeless and free She was my mother She was my daughter She was my lover She was everything An old friend could be I said it's been such a long time Since we have spoken There's so much to say to you I want you to know Wish you could tell me All that you've seen here But we haven't got long now For soon you'll be fading And soon I must go (hmmm) (I know the way home) She said you are a soldier You are a father You are a wise man You are a friend You were my first love I won't forget you I'm walking beside you I was here when you started I'll be here till the end And now it's evening There's a moon slowly rising There isn't much more that I wanted to know (wanted to know) And I am alone now She isn't beside me no more But I feel no sorrow I'll come tomorrow I'll be on my way home I'll be on my way home
how dare you take credit away from the real composer. Jacob Collier did this. Whatever version of god you are referring to had nothing to do with it, at all.
I've needed to leave for some time now, but having to close down my computer and cut any song short of the album's journey continues to feel wrong, every single time. So here I am, covered in goosebumps, feathers ruffled as if it were still my first listen, waiting for but not ever wanting ITREM to end... so that I eventually can venture back out into the world to go about the rest of my day. Thank you, you delightfully old young soul, for eloquently and ever so gently bitch-slapping back into me an excitement for music.
Extraordinarily beautiful and touching. Only Jacob is Jacob. The full breadth of his originality is difficult to take in. But we can try. Accepting that - again and again - hot tears will bathe our eyes.
I'm finally giving in to the tears that have been rising as I'm listening to this exquisitely simple melody and deeply moving words a second time. It's like I cannot hear it enough times because it opens up a realm from within which I've somehow managed to close off from my heart. That first real love I experienced many years ago when I was in college has been sheltered in that realm. Beyond my knowing, that love has been cherished for so long in spite of the passing of many winters, springs, summers, and falls as we both have journeyed past those sweet moments of discovering a kindredness of spirit and a common song in our hearts. Somehow God brought us together after those many years of our journeying our separate ways and we smiled and embraced the evening without expressions of joy and love but with a certain and very clear realization that we had never forgotten that splendid realm we had experienced when we were young singers of songs, writers of poetry, and gentle hearts entwined forever. I am alone now and I'm thankful for this song because it has opened up that realm that I thought was forgotten. This song blesses my heart so deeply! Thank you, Jacob!!!!
I was listening to your album while walking in the park, and this song came on. It was so beautiful and peaceful I almost cried (which for me is the equivalent of crying)
Just... speechless... to describe the emotions that are embodied within this song, impossible. The individual experience within this world he imbues is ineffable. No two epiphanies' are the same; however, that's the ethereal solitude of it. Within every person, he made them feel something. Something that no words can express. Thank you for this.
Yes - exactly. This is enormous - much bigger than music. Not to be afraid of the void, of the silence, of the slowness is something even more "mature" musicians often lack.
This song really does make me cry every time I hear it. It prevents me from listening to it on repeat. But sadly it's so beautiful that I want to. Why, Collier, why... haha
This has to be one of my favorite pieces by Jacob - simply wonderful!!! I havre listened to it often, and never tire of it. It is artistic, poetic, and soulful! Such a wonderful piece! Stay away from mainstream music - protect the wealth you already possess. Thank you for sharing your music and your self with us - they are both beautiful!!!
Jacob, thanks for share u soul like magic chord voicings and progressions thats touch the bottom off heart. Every time I heard this song I cant control and the tears just roll out in my face. I love you guy thank you for u exist.
This is becoming one of my firm favourites on your album. There's something so inexplicably deep and soulful about it. The words and melody, and your amazing vocal control that makes it sound so easy and free! This gave me a huge sense of calm when I listened to it (a number of times) at work today. Feel so privileged that I can listen to something so beautiful over and over again with such ease! Thank you!
You made us cry (again) tonight..... but this time LIVE in Rennes.... Your very extended rendition on the grand piano with that magnificent vocal range and so much pent-up passion. Thank you, thank you, thank you...... more power to you (even without your luggage and some of your gear!!! Everybody missed your trousers...and that little screen atop the keyboards - no idea what it does but thanks to Jose and Will for getting you through)
@@Proghead88 theres big like selling out stadiums on world tours, superbowl halftime shows, and then theres big like selling out theaters like Herbie Hancock. I wrote that comment 2 years ago..lol..my point was his purity needs to be protected...
This is my first time hearing this song. Listening while cleaning my room. And It stopped me in my tracks. Literally just stood there and cried until it was over.
So much feeling in that harmony and melody, that maybe it even wound't be nescessary understand the verbal language to get the meaning of the song. This is universal... Thank you Jacob!
3.41am I have just finished a 3 hour phone call with Mon Vieil Ami. (My old friend... I feel like we go back through the ages...) During that call, I realised what an invaluable friend she has always been, and continues to be to this day. I love her. She is the most beautiful being I have ever known. Speaking to her has always felt like home. There's an intuitive connection that's spanned beyond this incarnation of life. We speak about this, in depth and often... But here's the thing, I only want her as a friend. I've lost too much of what I love in this life already. I don't want to risk losing my best friend. My only true, day one, down and out always there when we need each other, once in every lifetime kind of friend. If having her in this life, until the very end means only ever having her as a friend, then so be it. "There's so much to say to you, I want you to know..." This song is all I wanted to hear after wishing her a good night. It's the second most beautiful thing to listen too to hearing her voice. I'm deleting this as soon as it is acknowledged by another soul. This is my putting it out to the universe, and letting the Lord sort it out. Oh, and to the soul that interacts with this, thank you for setting my intention free.
5:06 - 5:11. Something about that chord progression is just so incredible. I mean, it all is, it's Jacob Collier, but that little segment gives me goosebumps like nothing else.
I am listening everyday and i am as peaceful as like a baby sleeping after listening. So this is the most relaxing song ever and ma fav. brave 👏🏻👏🏻 Thank you so much 😚
Lyrics In the real early morning With the sun slowly rising I was walking out slowly Wandering free When out in the distance Over the valley I saw an old friend Waiting for me Waiting for me She was a young girl She was an old soul As fair as the ocean Timeless and free She was my mother She was my daughter She was my lover She was everything An old friend could be I said, "It's been such a long time Since we have spoken There's so much to say to you I want you to know I wish you could tell me All that you've seen here But we haven't got long now For soon, you'll be fading And soon, I must go" [Bridge: Instrumental] I know the way home She said "You are a soldier You are a father You are a wise man You are a friend You were my first love I won't forget you I'm walking beside you I was here when you started I'll be here till the end" And now it's the evening There's a moon slowly rising (ooh, ooh) There isn't much more that I wanted to know, wanted to know And I am alone now She isn't beside me no more But I feel no sorrow I'd come tomorrow I'll be on my way home I'll be on my way home
