Robert "Bob" Cobert (born October 26, 1924; died February 19, 2020) was an … Read Full Bio ↴Robert "Bob" Cobert (born October 26, 1924; died February 19, 2020) was an American musical composer who has written for television and movies.

Cobert is known for his work, as the composer, for the Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows. A favorite of Dark Shadows creator, Dan Curtis, Cobert also scored his cult classic horror films, Trilogy of Terror and Burnt Offerings, among others. Cobert also composed the score for the pilots for the TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker, and the mini-series Winds of War and its sequel, War and Remembernce.

Aside from his film work, Cobert also composed many game show themes, in particular those produced by Goodson-Todman Productions and Bob Stewart Productions. His most notable themes in that genre include the original themes for To Tell The Truth (2nd theme), Password (2nd theme), Blockbusters, The $25,000 Pyramid (1982 update) and Chain Reaction (itself a remake of the theme from Supertrain).

Dark Shadows
Robert Cobert Lyrics

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Magi naerigo naneun sumi cha
Bokjaphaejin mam sumeul naeswinda
Oneul mot swilsuneun eopseosseo na
Gwangaekdeurui pyojeongeun eottaessdeonga
Geuraedo haengbokhae ireon naegadoeseo
Nugunga sori jireuge mandeul suga isseoseo
Chae gasiji anheun yeoundeureul pumeango
Ajik deoun teong bin mudaee seosseulttae

Teongteong bin mudae-e seosseulttae
Geunyang gongheohame nan geobeul nae
Bokjaphan gamjeongsogeseo salme saseon wieseo
Gwaensiri nan deo mudincheogeul hae
Cheoeumdo aninde iksukhaejil beop hande
Sumgiryeo haedo geuge andwae
Teong bin mudaega sigeogalttae
Gwangaekseogeul dwirohane

Jigeum na wirohane
Wanbyeokhan sesangeun eopsdago jasinege malhaena
Jeomjeom nal biwogane
Eonjekkaji naekkeoil sun eopseo keun baksugalchaega
Ireon naege mareulhae ppeonppeonhi
Ni moksoril nopyeo deo meolli
Yeongwonhan gwangaegeun eopdaedo nan noraehalgeoya
Oneurui naro yeongwonhagopa
Yeongwonhi sonyeonigo sipeo na a!

Forever we are young
Narineun kkoccipbi sairo
Hemae-eo dalline i miro
Forever we are young
Neomeojyeo dachigo apado
Kkeut eopsi dalline kkumeul hyanghae
Forever ever ever ever (kkum, huimang, jeonjin, jeonjin)
Forever ever ever ever
We are young
Forever ever ever ever (kkum, huimang, jeonjin, jeonjin)
Forever ever ever ever
We are young

Forever we are young
Narineun kkoccipbi sairo
Hemae-eo dalline i miro
Forever we are young
Neomeojyeo dachigo apado
Kkeut eopsi dalline kkumeul hyanghae

Forever we are young
Narineun kkoccipbi sairo
Hemae-eo dalline i miro
Forever we are young (u)

Neomeojyeo dachigo apado
Kkeut eopsi dalline kkumeul hyanghae

Overall Meaning

These lyrics are not the lyrics to Robert Cobert's song Dark Shadows. The lyrics are actually the lyrics to BTS's song Forever Young (잡아줘). Please provide the correct lyrics for me to interpret.

Line by Line Meaning

Magi naerigo naneun sumi cha
My breathing becomes rough and heavy as if I'm suffocating

Bokjaphaejin mam sumeul naeswinda
I hide the heart which has been hurt and bruised

Oneul mot swilsuneun eopseosseo na
I cannot avoid the things that won't disappear easily today

Gwangaekdeurui pyojeongeun eottaessdeonga
I wonder about the expressions of the passerby

Geuraedo haengbokhae ireon naegadoeseo
Despite that, I'm happy even with these things

Nugunga sori jireuge mandeul suga isseoseo
I can bury my face into someone's embrace and cry out loud

Chae gasiji anheun yeoundeureul pumeango
I hug the people who won't leave me alone

Ajik deoun teong bin mudaee seosseulttae
When I was still standing in front of the empty stage

Teongteong bin mudae-e seosseulttae
In front of the empty stage

Geunyang gongheohame nan geobeul nae
I just kneel down and pray

Bokjaphan gamjeongsogeseo salme saseon wieseo
In my hurt emotional state, I look back on my life

Gwaensiri nan deo mudincheogeul hae
I'm truly becoming more mature

Cheoeumdo aninde iksukhaejil beop hande
Even though I don't know, I'll learn how to endure it for the first time

Sumgiryeo haedo geuge andwae
Even though it hurts deeply, it can't be helped

Teong bin mudaega sigeogalttae
When the empty stage becomes filled with sound

Gwangaekseogeul dwirohane
The walls of the passerby shake

Jigeum na wirohane
Now, I kneel down to pray

Wanbyeokhan sesangeun eopsdago jasinege malhaena
I won't tell myself that there's no perfect world

Jeomjeom nal biwogane
I'm feeling more and more anxious every day

Eonjekkaji naekkeoil sun eopseo keun baksugalchaega
I can't escape the big wave that will eventually come

Ireon naege mareulhae ppeonppeonhi
As if teasing me, it tells me these things

Ni moksoril nopyeo deo meolli
I hear your voice from further away

Yeongwonhan gwangaegeun eopdaedo nan noraehalgeoya
Even if there's no eternal light, I'll still sing

Oneurui naro yeongwonhagopa
I want today to be eternal

Yeongwonhi sonyeonigo sipeo na a!
I want to be forever young!

Forever we are young
We are always young

Narineun kkoccipbi sairo
Like a flower bud blooming

Hemae-eo dalline i miro
We keep running through this maze

Neomeojyeo dachigo apado
Even when we fall and hurt ourselves

Kkeut eopsi dalline kkumeul hyanghae
We keep chasing after our dreams without an end

Forever ever ever ever (kkum, huimang, jeonjin, jeonjin)
Forever and ever and ever (dreams, hope, challenge, challenge)

We are young
We are always young

Writer(s): Robert Cobert

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@SteveDronzewski

Soundtrack
Tracklist Hide Credits
A1 Opening Themes: 1. Dark Shadows 2. Collinwood
Written-By – Robert Cobert
2:44
A2 I'll Be With You, Always
Narrator [Narration By] – Jonathan Frid
Written-By – Charles Grean, Robert Cobert
2:22
A3 Josette's Theme
Written-By – Robert Cobert
1:19
A4 A Darkness At Collinwood
Written-By – Robert Cobert
3:25
A5 Meditations
Narrator [Narration By] – Jonathan Frid
Written-By – Robert Cobert
2:29
A6 Night Of The Pentagram
Written-By – Robert Cobert
2:42
A7 When I Am Dead
Written-By – Robert Cobert
1:42
A8 No. 1 At The Blue Whale
Written-By – Robert Cobert
2:22
B1 Shadows Of The Night
Narrator [Narration By] – David Selby
Written-By – Charles Grean, Robert Cobert
2:06
B2 The Secret Room
Written-By – Robert Cobert
2:29
B3 Epitaph
Narrator [Narration By] – Jonathan Frid
Written-By – Robert Cobert
1:56
B4 Seance
Written-By – Robert Cobert
1:18
B5 I, Barnabas
Narrator [Narration By] – Jonathan Frid
Written-By – Charles Grean, Robert Cobert
2:12
B6 Back At The Blue Whale
Written-By – Robert Cobert
2:10
B7 The Old House
Written-By – Robert Cobert
2:21
B8 1. Epilogue 2. Dark Shadows
Written-By – Robert Cobert

All comments from YouTube:

@abyios

12y↑5

I used to have this record too. The CD is available at amazon. This was my favorite side of the record. Thank you for posting this. "When I Am Dead" is lovely and almost prophetic. As Jonathan Frid has passed from this world, I read that he chose not to have a funeral service. Seems odd, he has so many endearing fans. People love him. RIP Jonathan.

@clarenceedmondson6889

7y↑1

abyios o.o

@IMArtisanX

6y↑2

Passed from this world? Did he... Really...?

@ghost_knight_001

27w

Hi is it true the lp edition is better sounding

@abyios

27w

I think most lps sound better on a good turntable .. but in this case, the CD is fine. But I always prefer vinyl, that's just me. Hope this helps @@ghost_knight_001

@udui1o173

10y↑12

Yes! this music is very haunting and the arrangements by Robert Cobert is ingenius.
This series DS is a camp classic and will always be.

@KarlBonner1982

10y↑2

I didn't think it was either camp or gothic soap opera. It felt more like an endless epic fantasy adventure with a semi-horror bent, that just happened to take the format of a soap. Then again, I was born and raised on golden-era RPGs like Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger, so....

@zoppie

I think it was TV Guide that dubbed it "supernatural intrigue." Given that all the monsters were "real" (for the purposes of the plot), the writers took them to interesting places that even the books that inspired them did not go.

@GeorgeVreelandHill

9y↑5

I had this album.
Thanks for the memories.
Dark Shadows will always be one of my all-time favorite shows.

@56Axis

9y↑5

I loved this album..and Dark Shadows. Can't believe I remember all the words..been awhile since I heard this album..thanks. <3 it.

@casperrollier9079

9y↑3

I remember getting this album as a birthday gift ages ago. Played it all the time. Wish I still had it.

@IwshIcldstrtover

11y↑3

I mowed my aunt's lawn just so I could make enough money to go out and buy this album! I will never forget how disappointed I was that there wasn't the music from the show I'd hoped would be on it, but I was still thrilled to have it. I now own the 8 disc set of every piece Robert Cobert recorded titled "The Complete Dark Shadows Soundtrack Music Collection", and everything is on it! I wish I still had this album, though.

@rodrigovillegas8285

9y↑4

Excelente musica, a otro nivel.

@marciamornay1089

8y↑7

Brings back fond memories. "I'll Be With You Always" was being piped into a large amphitheater in advance of Jonathan's appearance in Redwood City, CA..way back in 1968 or so. It was a thrill to see him in person...just six rows in front of me. Thanks for posting, wrti2010.

@ellott1828

9y↑19

Its amazing how many 50 yr holds were forever warped by show. It was so popular with us kids back then.

@creepybopper1mc456

7y↑1

this Lp is a little warped too ;-) you can hear it on the organ wobbling especially. one can now purchase this sounding pristine (though still a bit tinny) on such as iTunes, which is wonderful. with that remastered option for hearing Robert Cobert's finest TV music score finally available, the crackle of a vintage copy of the vinyl from one's collection only adds to the nostalgic fun

@clarenceedmondson6889

TERESA ELLIOTT sonnyclarencejames

@BegoneJonah

I loved this music. I still do.

@1964rocks

You are exactly right Teresa!

@ballmark45

11y↑2

I still have this album......so many memories of this cool show. When I hear the track for "#1 at the Blue Whale", I automatically think of Joel Crothers.

@rockeryhudpeck3390

5y↑1

I had this as well as more music from Dark Shadows albums. There was a music only version of "I'll Be With You Always"...it was really beautiful.

@Janadu

9y↑10

Memories. Running home from school to watch! Watching with my bff and her grandmother.... Wonderful! I used to like the original music box theme. It was more haunting. I don't know why they changed it.

@Janadu

To each his own. I like the first one better. I understand it was a copyright issue that forced the change.

@sgnmath1234

It seems as if all school aged children always Ran from school to watch DS. Not walked home...not took the bus or train or blimp or helicopter home....but ran home. So be it. Raise your hand if you thought that Willie was a wimp..

..

@danrodden6115

9y↑8

I love how you have Quentin peeking through the hole in the record.

@arletteolivo3193

8y↑6

I BOUGHT THIS ALBUM IN 1966 AND STILL HAVE IT I WAS A JUNIOR IN HIGH SCHOOL NEVER MISSED DARK SHADOWS

@rickk.3718

+Arlette: Any chance you could post the song track titles? I am curious what the names of them are.

@SteveDronzewski

@dveplmr

11y↑2

I got this album for Christmas when I was about 10 or 11. 69, 70. It's disturbing to me now, 40 some-odd years later, to recall how obsessed with this shit I was back then. Weird memories!

@carolcunningham6595

31w

I love this soundtrack.

@davidheliker9600

8y↑4

Robert Cobert = Masterwork

@Rowenth

9y↑3

Josette's Music Box. I loved her. This showing being dark for the time period is mild compared to the darkness in today's world.

@Pagansong

11y↑3

I'm just getting into this series- Its great! I just got this lp off ebay, so you can look there for a replacement for the one you lost.

@SafetyJerks

11y↑2

I totally still have this album!

@Glorybee1234

9y↑3

I still have the album. <3

@sylvisterling8782

6y↑1

Oh yeah! I remember when a thunderstorm would come on, lightning flashing, rain pelting our windows... my two friends and I would roleplay (back then we called it 'playacting' now it's called LARPing) we would put the album on the turntable and re-enact Josette's flight and fall from Widow's Hill! I was always Angelique, Jon was Barnabas and Velda was Josette! I can never forget! "You cannot harm me, Ben! I have too much power for you! Listen, Ben... it's your heart... your heart is going to burst right out of your chest!! HAHAHAHAHA" Oh the curses I could throw!

@SellawEvets

8y↑1

I have this album from a used record sale. I like how you have the scary face peeking through the hole on the record!

@johnnynoirman

5y↑1

Robert Cobert--Genius!

@AngelaSuePropst

9y↑2

I loved this show.

@joelombrdo

5y↑1

I think this is the best horror music ever.

@RPenta

11y↑2

I do also-actually the pre-Barnabas episodes actually feature the music a bit more. Best music on any soap in history and there is not even a close second.

@CHAMPERS20

12y↑2

Side two please!! and thanks for posting!!

@kenjessup4118

10y↑10

I still have the original album!

@jonloechert763

8y↑2

I REALLY LOVE THIS AUBLM AND ALL THE SCARY MUSIC FROM DARK SHADOWS I WILL PLAY THIS AUBLM ON HALLOWEEN AND I REALLY HOPE THAT JONATHAN FRID WAS STILL HERE WITH US R. I. P. OUR FAVORITE VAMPIRE BANANAS COLLINS JON LOECHERT FAN OF DARK SHADOWS JULY 8TH 2016

@Fersomling

11y↑3

Lucky you! I bought mine brand-new in November, 1969 and it was ripped off in October, 2002. I watched Dark Shadows from the beginning in 1966 right up to the end in early 1971. :)

@RickTBL

2y↑1

I still have this album. I got Jonathan Frid to sign his picture on the cover.

@robertszvetics210

8y↑8

THE GREATEST DAYTIME DRAMA EVER DONE I THINK IT SHOULD OF BEEN ON IN PRIME TIME IT WAS THAT GOOD

@MarkusDarkscribe

10y↑4

Memories!!!

@dianagruver5767

8y↑4

Awesome!

@BunnulaTV

5y↑1

Dark Shadows is BAE

@1964rocks

6y↑1

You are exactly right Teresa!

@thomasloybumgarner1

12y↑1

have all 4 albums now on cd, plus 8 cds remastered, plus cobert's cd on HODS/NODS and his other cd on other scary music including DS1991

@rickynovosad

12y↑1

on wed.of the week at our cub scout meetings this is what we did FIRST! watch dark shadows, then meeting time!

@SALLYANGEL2

12y↑2

I WATCHED,,,THIS,,,ALL THE TIME,,,BACK IN THE DAY,,,FLASHESBACKFRIDAYFROM THE SPACE,,THANK,,,THIS CAME ON T.V.

@Fersomling

11y↑2

I shall proffer an answer in the form of a skill-testing question: My age at the time of the Dark Shadows LP one of the square roots of 169 in the Real Number system.

@Padrefan56

44w

I liked everything on DS until the mid 300's episodes when they went back in time. Also they kept changing characters like I change shoes. Other than that I lo ved the series.

@RedLikeWine

6y↑1

My dog and I like to dance to the second song. It's our song.

@desertrose6698

8y↑8

Still have my original album too.

@KS-dn8tm

5y↑1

me too! if only I had a turntable to play it!

@kenjessup4118

10y↑8

I remember racing home to se this show. My brother and I would be glued to the T.V. I hate Johnny Depp for making a stupid version of a classic. The 3 Original movies were awsome.

@hungterry

9y↑2

Ken Jessup I agree. The re-make movie with Johnny Depp was horrible.

@meyou-dv8ns

7y↑2

i love the new dark shadows movie i love the way they did not try to be just like the 1960's show at all that would have never worked it was great cool as hell !

@hotchick69

5y↑3

For what Tim Burton and Johnny Depp did they should be horsewhipped.

@kevinarnold6677

10y↑7

used to run home from school every day to watch this show , but school let out at 3:00 and it took 15 mins to run home .....

@TheYellowTulips

9y↑2

My school let out at 3:15 and I'd get home in time to see reruns of "The Flintstones"
at 3:30 and DS at 4. Talk about an interesting juxtaposition...

Robert Cobert's music did a lot to add to the macabre feel of the show.

I often wonder whether the show had any lasting effect on how the actors and actresses perceived their own mortality.

@jduff59

+TheYellowTulips Me too, exact same time, I would make it just in time if I RAN! Quentin's Theme has been stuck in my mind ever since, just found it again here. What year was this I wonder? I'm thinking 1971?

@creepybopper1mc456

where did you grow up, i wonder? i've never heard anyone else mention the 3:15 bell and the 15 minute dash so specifically. this would corroborate my own experience. many have waved away at my memory, saying i must be wrong about 3:15 for starters. i was at Bret Harte in Chicago (where our congrats go to the Cubs today!) at the time, watching that clock like a hawk, edgy from 3:00 until the end of school day bell at 3:15! cheers!

@creepybopper1mc456

7y↑1

DS debut was 1966 (hence this year of 2016, the Anniversary, the 50th). this Lp was released in 1969 at the peak of Dark Shadows TV ratings and around the time that Quentin, to great fame coming after Barnabas, became another new DS breakout star, started obsessing over a particular gramophone record, when very soon that particular Cobert melody indelible melody casually recycled from a Dan Curtis TV movie of "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde". Quentin, of course, was played by a fine young actor called David Selby who created the role as it led him from silent ghost to strong willed scion and for his efforts that piece of this great music soon stuck to him like glue, which happy accident he does not at all mind, and in fact he happily embraces that fact of his life and ours to this day. that piece became known ever thereafter known solely as his, and was upon its first record release retitled and cannily called "Quentin's Theme". many more versions existed though most seem to be unavailable to us today. Dark Shadows was 'cancelled' by the newly confident abc-TV that rode it to legitimacy without warning or apparent regret - outside of almost 20 million daily viewers at its peak - early in 1971.

@creepybopper1mc456

they moved it around. when i was in the Midwest DS was on at 3:00. maybe it moved later, though i don't know where you were. only in NY did i see it at 4:00.

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@IwshIcldstrtover

11y↑1

Ha-ha...me too, and I think of the werewolf and Angelique during Night of the Pentagram.

@richelliott9320

8y↑2

the darkness at collinwood music is very creepy

@ahb424

10y↑1

I ran through backyards to get to the TV before my sister got off the bus to watch the gong show.

@sgnmath1234

Chuck Barris over Jonathan Fridd ??? Never!

@BobRaySeamans

Back on Decades TV -- started with the Introduction of Barnabas … check online.

@BobRaySeamans

… today is November 5 2018 -- Dark Shadows (50 years+) is still a great work of television and performance art.

@esmeisme921

12y↑1

Yes, please hurry~ R.I.P J.F

@jonloechert763

8y↑4

HI ALL DARK SHADOWS FANS I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S OVER 50TH YEARS OF DARK SHADOWS I THINK THAT HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS SHOULD HAVE A HAUNTED HOUSE FOR DARK SHADOWS HAUNTED HOUSE FOR UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS CALLED HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS WITH VAMPIRE'S AND WEREWOLVES AND WITCHES WARLOCKS DEMONS SPIRITS AND GHOSTS AND THE LIVING DEAD ZOMBIES PLEASE ALL DARK SHADOWS FANS LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT IT AND MAYBE WE WILL HAVE A HAUNTED HOUSES FOR DARK SHADOWS HAUNTED HOUSE FOR UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS JON LOECHERT FAN OF DARK SHADOWS

@rickk.3718

8y↑1

+Jon: Sounds like fun. Which Universal Studios are you near, Orlando or Califorinia? We have a Dark Shadows fan club in Central Florida that meets on a regular basis. Some members just came back from the 50th Anniversary convention (not me, sadly).

@joycew1560

wow

@sgnmath1234

5y↑1

Julia: "But I..I don't understand, Barnabas"

@Fersomling

10y↑1

Barnabas!

@PaleMaleNYCGen4

12y↑1

17:10 at the Blue Whale. Righto. The fishy smell wafting over the rafters, the nets strung up all round the pub, the bleary eyed sailors with their woolen caps...*Burp*. uh, excuse me. Dis plonk's recent vintage...