This song has helped me through so many hard emotional times in my life since I first heard it in 1967, from break-ups in adolescence to the death of my son in 1985 and most recently the passing of my husband of forty five years. Sad but somehow cathartic, reminding us in a beautiful way that loss and the sorrow it brings is an inevitable part of life that we all share. Thank you, Marty Balin. You knew the human heart well.

San Francisco is very much the setting of this painfully beautiful song; "Strolling the hills overlooking the shore, I realize I've been here before... the shadow in the mist could have been anyone..." This song could only have been written surrounded by those hills, shores, and mist.

This is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever listened to. Thank you Jefferson Airplane, ✈️ For making music that speaks to the depths of a person’s soul. ☮️💟😎✌️✈️

So beautiful and timeless. I think I was 16 when I bought this record. How I got to 73 I don't know, but I am here and still in love with this song.

I have no words. This instantly became the most beautiful song I’ve ever heard.

When I was 7 my grandpa told me to play this song at his funeral. I said ok and he said i wouldn't remember. 7 years later He's still alive but I'll remember

This is one of the most beautiful songs ever recorded. I hope they dig this up in 2000 years.

Such a sad, haunting, beautiful song. One of my favorite songs ever.

The Marty Balin era is the best Airplane era. The guy wrote tons of gems and classics.

Woke up today and this song was playing in my head and a person on my mind that is not in my life anymore. This song brings lots of emotions inside me, such a beautiful and timeless song

This is the first time I heard this? Lovely . Peace and happiness to everyone in the universe.

This song has crossed oceans of time to deliver a message

This entire album brings back a flood of memories of entering college in September 1967. Great times and great memories!

At 64 this song is just beautiful. I heard it for years, but I now appreciate it. When you are surrounded by sadness and bad situations, you think of something beautiful and it helps to heal. This song helps, I saw you my beautiful friend. We will see each other on the other side. Much love J.

No auto tune. No ProTools. No digital manipulation. Just great musicians, a great singer and great lyrics. It makes me both mad and sad when when younger people claim that the music from the 60s and 70s was crappy. I'll take this kind of music instead of the over-produced modern stuff any time. Here we are 50+ years later and we are still listening to it. RIP Marty, Paul, Skip, Spencer and Signe.

Such a nostalgic and beautiful sad song

I boughtthis album when I was 17 and mainly played the big hits...I'm 54 and a widower and I played this song alot when my wife was dying. She's been gone five years now and I'm in love with an amazing woman. I can listen to this now, think of my past and my future. This song does this all for me.

I remember how I loved driving in the California mountains listening to this . It still evokes the same emotion and thoughts it did then .

over 40 years since i heard this forgotten song.......i cried

You NEED TO HAVE a heart an SOUL to LOVE this particular 60's SONG ONLY THOSE capable of REAL LOVE an LOSS can TRULY appreciate REAL MUSIC LIKE THIS! Never WILL THERE be a Marty Balin, JIM MORRISON, Leon Russell, an my fav. GEORGE Harrison, Roy Orbison, Elvis, Prince, Greg Lake, Tom Petty, an the list could GO on FOR hours an DAYS!!😍😘💖

When I hear this song, I see all those I loved in my life coming back to me. Oh, God... so beautiful this song is.

A poetic masterpiece...

Such a beautiful song, haunting lyrics,. Fills my soul.

such an underrated song, it's incredibly beautiful and poignant at the same time

As a child I would sit playing with toys under our breakfast table while our mother cleanup in the kitchen. Her small radio on the window seal shelf above the sink. She was 23 years old. Singing soft with the songs. She would turn up the volume to listen to her favorite ones. She died of cancer in 2019. She never complained of how sick she was or did she stop going about her day like nothing was bothering her. My mother was always a beautiful lady. Her blue eyes deep and smiled when she was happy. A small lady with golden light in her long reddish hair. She was Irish decent. A child of the 40s, a youth of the 60s. Life has changed since she has left but every now and then I catch glimpses her... standing out by her pink peonies or smell her bit of perfume. She visits... which is alright with me.

Music may be the closest we get to perfection or magic. Nothing like it to invoke a mood or trigger a memory.

i spent the best summer of my life with her and because of her, i know love at first sight exist cause i experienced it almost 16 years ago and i still feel it deep in my heart, and this is after many great relationships and wonderful women that have come into my life and yet nobody has ever made me feel the way she did, she was gone as fast as she came into my life. She melted my heart into complete mush so much that i traveled across the country to be with her, and along the way i got see the rest of the outside world and it led to me see there was so much more out there than the little ghetto town i was used to and felt i'd be stuck in forever and i was so grateful for that, needless to say things didn't work out the way i wanted to them to and it took me so many years to realize that, that was for a reason. she came into my life to open my eyes to what life really had to offer, to experience what is thought to be an unobtainable level happiness for even a single summer was more than i could ever ask for, even a single day is more than i could ever ask for and i got it, not everybody can say that. everybody has that person they would have chosen to be with forever and she was definitely mine........for that time......for that time in my life, in that part of the world cause now, her and i are two completely different people, we both have children and live in completely different parts of the world and mentally worlds apart.. Can you believe she actually lived only an hour from me in the not so distant past for a number of years and you know how many times we met up? ZERO! why? because i truly believe that that's the way things are meant to be and it saddens me that we have to grow up, some of us faster than others. if i could have stayed 18 with her forever i would have. some truly great times in my life those were and i will always and forever cherish those moments i had with her, i still have all of your love letters to me and when i was moving recently i came across them and i looked at everyone of them and just thought to myself, i'am exactly where i'am at now in my life because of these letters. thank you for that and where ever you are at, please take care of yourself and don't ever forget me.

Everytime i hear this Song i must cry... it's so deep!

It is atmospheric and a “wall of sound” which can viscerally make me feel as I did at 15. Being a highness the pace is slowed down. Love

Everything that ever meant anything left my life , the underlying reasons are beautifully described by the song which is as old as my adventure with experimentation, addiction , recovery, relapse , and finally recover for whatever is left.? Friendship and love are the only thing of real value, don't waste it.

Reminds me of a girl who loved me over the summer. But left for good when college started.

By leaps and bounds the finest piece of music to emerge from the Balin era Airplane. Cheers!

I only wish this could be louder...to see them live must have been incredibly beautiful

Hauntingly beautiful.

There will never be music like this again..

this is my fave song from the album

Used to love this song and this album when it came out when I was 18. Went to Woodstock when I was 20. Still beautiful. Nothing has been much good the past 20 years but Dylan and Stones. I especially miss R&B, Motown and Phil Spector. Popular music is a desert now.

For my Dad. Love you!

Wrote my master's thesis while this album, Rubber Soul were playing.

My favorite song on a brilliant album. So good.

this song breakers my heart every time I hear it… the one person who understood me is gone…

Absolute masterpiece.

A MASTERPIECE

I used to be in love.

“One begins to read between the pages of a look”, Marty could play on words like a poet

I am 73, too..and lost my best friend and partner of 23 years...I see him coming back to me

"Now I wish it hadn't begun" 💔

A memory for my big Brother.

this song reminds me of the places of my early life

In 2018, Marty Balin said that he wrote “Comin’ Back To Me” (1967) after smoking a joint with Paul Butterfield. “I was in my room and I tell you, I couldn’t find my legs,” recalled Balin. “I got up and went to the guitar. BAM❕In five minutes the song came out.” The songwriter rushed to the studio where he found Jerry Garcia and Jack Cassidy. He asked them to play and urged the sound engineer to start the tape. All was recorded in one single take. Balin didn’t think much about the piece afterwards, because it was so soft that it couldn’t be interpreted live (or so he thought❕). Nonetheless, Comin’ Back To Me” ended up being one of Airplane’s favorites among their fans. Later, Jefferson Starship* would do “Comin’ Back” live, and singer Marty Balin almost always introduced the number with a reference to the “Surrealistic Pillow” sessions, mentioning Jerry Garcia as having played the guitar parts on the original studio version. 💜🎶💛 * JEFFERSON AIRPLANE formed in 1965 and remained so until 1972, when they disbanded. They regrouped in 1974 as JEFFERSON STARSHIP until 1985 when they were renamed STARSHIP due to personnel changes and a lawsuit. Following a short hiatus in the early 1990s, the ensemble was revived once again in 1992 as STARSHIP.

The Best album for all times...long live hipies.

My favorite Jefferson Airplane song, so beautiful, I saw you , I saw you, coming back to me. My husband passed a few years ago.

Nothing added or taken away so the plaintiff psychedelic journey is as mesmerising as it always was .

This song was recorded on November 1st in 1966. I was born on November 1st in 1965.

❤ pure poetry. A love lost. Longing for what was lost. Been there.

Oh my! So that's what a flashback is! Cool

Tears are falling like autumn leaves...🍁

Thing song has me miss for days that I wasn't even alive in yet...

Hey guys and gals, thank you for sharing your thoughts and feelings concerns this song!

Puppy love is the best broken heart nothing can mend.

I've heard this song for the first time back in 1990 while I was watching an episode of "Tour of duty" beautiful song :)

This song is one of my absolutely favorites. So beautiful. It has carried me back in time when I thought everything was possible. The music of this time was so honest, and healing. I wish I had not let go of that feeling it gave me. Thank you for reminding me of how it was then.

You have to have a glass of Burgundy, Pinot noir and rain falling softly in Montana

This is my alarm song every day. I recommend it.

Reminds me of a time in my life that I never want to forget xxxxx

Such sweet commitment of ones soul.

Marty ballin, second to none. There's no such person called a hippie was there....

About 30'od yrs ago I bought a Jefferson Airplane album from an Antique shop in Boscombe - Bournemouth, It was the 2400 album, inside the middle of cover was this flattened cardboard box what you could build up as a Cigar Box, The Cigar box was covered all over with Ganja. I never ever put it together, I think I gave £1 for it, it was one one of the best L.P Albums I ever bought. Love this song 🎵 Great Band from the 60s..

I always felt like this was a happy song, I dont know why

God bless you forever Marty

gorgeous song

Bellissima ballata sognante ti da un senso di pace impressionante

The summer had inhaled And held its breath too long. The winter looked the same, As if it had never gone, And through an open window, Where no curtain hung, I saw you, I saw you, Coming back to me. One begins to read between The pages of a look. The sound of sleepy music, And suddenly, you're hooked. I saw you, I saw you, Coming back to me. You came to stay and live my way, Scatter my love like leaves in the wind. You always say that 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, I saw you, Coming back to me. Strolling the hill, Overlooking the shore, I realize I've been here before. The shadow in the mist Could have been anyone - I saw you, I saw you, Coming back to me. Small things like reasons Are put in a jar. Whatever happened to wishes, Wished on a star? Was it just something That I made up for fun? I saw you, I saw you, Coming back to me.

just beautiful

Timeless

Just heard shell never be coming back. RiP my love

Okay. I've listened to this album since forever it seems. There are tunes here that absolutely seem to want to help and I hope they do too.

No Song Shout's Quietly The Beauty Of Da 60's Long Live Bolinas!

LOVE IT

Grrrr8 Song !!!

I haven't listened to my copy of this in a while. I remember listening to this while I was doing my homework in my junior - maybe senior? - year of high school and getting so into the music that I just left the homework sit there. This version just doesn't skip in the place where my album used to stick! I was so careful of my records I was sure my younger sister had been listening to it when I wasn't there. Then I realized maybe I needed a new needle for my turntable. Just the same, I look for him to sing: "wasn't it just" the last time, over and over, auntil I get up and gently move the arm of the record player.

A lost love song to a deceased woman I loved.

Mitici e immensa Grace ...che nostalgia.. quando la musica era musica 🎶

When I was in 4th grade I had A teacher that I believe was an Earth Angel. Her name was Sr. Laurentine. Each day going to school,was a privilege, just to be in her presence... God Filled our classroom. Nuns don't get to choose where they are sent. On the last day of school she told us she was being transferred. How she truly loved us all came through her entire being. A girl in our class was going to Europe on the Nina, Pinta & Santa Maria. The whole class was invited to the bon voyage upon one ship including Sister Laurentine. Many girls spent time with her, as I so longed to, but that would.mean saying goodbye & I couldn't The announcement was made "10 min. guests unboard" So I was just about ready to slip out the door, as she gently said,"Linda" I flew over the crowd into Sister Laurentine's arms. It took 4 people to pry a hysterical 10 year old off her neck. Outside she asked my Mother,"Please take care of Linda, She is one of God's very Special Ones!

I think I first heard then just after I was discharged from the Army, it was getting cold back in Detroit. It's haunted me ever since. Music like this comes by but once.

I love this song!!! ❤

This is one of those emotional songs that makes you think about love you once had but lost. After sharing my all and all with that special person of #25years the love had died and I looked for her one hot summer day and suddenly she was gone after drowning in my tears and all of my sorrows I would play this song and try to find some closure & healing because she just never ever came back to me .

Beautiful song ❤️‍🔥👍🏻

Haunting. Exactly like I felt at 19 having lost my love of my life.

Yup it moves my heart and soul

Happy Birthday Paul Lorin Kantner 💟📡📡📡📡✈️✈️✈️Thank you for all the music you shared with us. 🙏🏽

i'm not crying you're crying

First heard this amazing track in the great movie "Without Limits" in 1998 which was based on the life of Steve Prefontaine. If no one has ever seen this movie I highly recommend it.

I love this song!

i just discovered this song a few months ago... wow!

This album was in 1967? I had it then but I was 14. My life is winding up now. Life is short but at age 14 I didn't believe it

Love the echo chamber !

I would get plastered high to the gills with this album. this one was my favorite just calm reminds me of autumn going to winter. ❤

from my youth ... 🎯✌🏼🫶🏼 I remember playing this album daily 🙏🏼♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

This is the same Marty that hits the high notes on Red Octopus. A log time ago I listened to this and thought it had been a long time since I played it all the way thru.