Today Lyrics
Today I know what I want to do but I don't know what for
To be living for you is all I want to do
To be loving you it'll all be there when my dreams come true
Today you'll make me say that I somehow have changed
Today you'll look into my eyes, I'm just not the same
To be anymore than all I am would be a lie
I'm so full of love I could burst apart and start to cry
Today everything you want, I swear it all will come true
Today I realize how much I'm in love with you
With you standing here I could tell the world what it means to love
To go on from here I can't use words, they don't say enought
Please, please listen to me
It's taken so long to come true
And it's all for you
all for you....
This song is too beautiful. The eerie, serpentine electric guitar riff over humble and honest fingerpicking creates a darkly intimate atmosphere, the tambourine adds a wild pulse or heartbeat, and the vocals of both Marty Balin and also Grace Slick on backup are yearning and ethereal. The lyrics are so passionate, especially "I'm so full of love, I could burst apart and start to cry" and "To go on from here I can't use words, they don't say enough" on through to the end, which just explodes in feeling. This song just leaves me speechless.
Surrealistic Pillow came out right when I was falling in love for the first time. It was deep, powerful and it was ultimately unrequited. I played this song "Today" over and over letting the tears flow. I still remember it fondly as one of the favorties of my youth all these decades later. And the following song "Coming Back to Me" was a perfect companion song. In fact if you listen to all the songs on that side of the album in sequence, it describes the beginnings, blossoming, full flower and bittersweet ending of a love relationship. The wistful longing and dreamlike quality of "Coming Back to Me" was soothing in a way. The Aiplane was my favorite group at that point and I'll always love them.
@EileenT you know that thing, if you were stuck on an island and could only have one, a single album, what would you choose? My choice has always been Surrealistic Pillow. I am 76 years old and have simply loved this album for a whole lot of years. Today is so perfectly written. Lots of great songs on that album.
@EileenT you know that thing, if you were stuck on an island and could only have one, a single album, what would you choose? My choice has always been Surrealistic Pillow. I am 76 years old and have simply loved this album for a whole lot of years. Today is so perfectly written. Lots of great songs on that album.
@EileenT My former wife didn't even like this song, and she was born during the Summer of Love.
She was ok with "Coming Back to Me," which, as you beautifully stated is a perfect companion song.
But everytime I fell love (3x), this song runs thru my mind as I sing the words from the heart.
After my late girlfriend died over a year ago, there's always hope to fall in love again. I'll never grow tired of singing this song!!
@EileenT My former wife didn't even like this song, and she was born during the Summer of Love.
She was ok with "Coming Back to Me," which, as you beautifully stated is a perfect companion song.
But everytime I fell love (3x), this song runs thru my mind as I sing the words from the heart.
After my late girlfriend died over a year ago, there's always hope to fall in love again. I'll never grow tired of singing this song!!
It reminds me.. of one of those sleepless nights, you spend thinking about a person, fantasizing about what you'll say and do when you finally get to see them after dawn has broken. Almost like an epiphany... the realization of true, passionate love that words can't even begin to express.
i wouldn't say this song is romantic. well... yes i suppose it is but it is more about a desperate man who can't stop thinking about this girl but he doesn't know how to get the message across. he doesn't want to say it to her because he thinks he'll screw it up and alienate himself and then he'll never have a chance.
but i think this song is about that one day when he finally decides to tell her because he's grown tried of waiting around for the right moment.
it's a song about desperation after months/years of self-denial and/or trying to force your feelings for someone to the back of your mind because you think that being THAT open with someone for the first time in your life could be just to painful to bear if you're rejected. but you've run out of time to wait for the right moment cause she's leaving or something so this is your last chance, do or die.
as you can probably tell this comes from presonal experience. it is hard.
nice tune too
This has quickly become one of my favorite songs. He obviously loves her so much. Its beautiful.
this is the most romantic song ever!
People normally come here to look for meaning of songs. But I don’t think loads of people give a dam about this old rock and roll track forgotten with time it seems. It saddens me to see no one has pasted comments on such a beautiful song.
Now this is what it means to me.
This guy who has written it is in love with someone he can’t really somehow go out with. And he wishes that today would be the day that he can shout it out let her know how much he cares for and what he can do for her to start with.
The nice part is the irony in it. He says it as if it’s today that he has realized how much he gives a fuck….
But actually he is wishing that today be the day that she sees how he feels about her in his eyes. He wishes there is a mutual understanding between them without the need of words. And ones that she understands it he shows her the other dimensions of him self and do all he can for her.
this song is like a drug, so beautiful
simply a love song, "With you standing here I could tell the world what it means to love", in surrealistic pillow there are some love songs and this one is maybe the best
"I'm so full of love I could burst apart and start to cry"
that's such of a beautiful lyric. this song is so full of love and desperation