| Jeff Buckley – Lover, You Should've Come Over Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| He was known to have had quite a few affairs early on in New York when he was seeing Rebecca Moore, who this song is most likely written for. | |
| Jeff Buckley – I Woke Up in a Strange Place Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| Jeff said that this was a song about road life and the ordeals that can come with it, i.e; excessive drinking, drunk use, random hook-ups, etc. Definitely one of his most "rock" songs. The MWB version is amazing. | |
| Tim Buckley – I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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If you listen closely to Jeff's "River of Dope", you will see that he is referencing this song, specifically in the lines: "Look into my eyes and you'll see That I flow with the river And I'm a slave to his song And I will drown forever where so many have gone" which correlate to the lines in "I Never Asked To Be Your Mountain", a song written about Jeff and his mother: "Yes, you can drink my lies If first you read my eyes Each one is titled 'I'm drowning back to you'" At the 1991 tribute for Tim, Jeff also added the lines: "I want to feel the tide pull through me like a woman drunk in sin/Let the fish swim through me/Let the water take my skin". |
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| Jeff Buckley – Grace Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| This may very well be Jeff's most spiritual song, as it expresses not only his fearlessness towards death, but his profound understanding that it is an integral part of life, and perhaps even a positive experience in that it extinguishes all of our earthly attachments and sufferings, and is merely a continuation of our soul's eternal journey (in keeping with Jeff's interest in Sufism). He also has realized that love is the most divine emotion of all, and that once love is experienced, the pain of life can be seen as illusory. I'm going to be very guarded in saying this, but I truly believe that Jeff was unafraid to die and was ready for it. He MAY have even been wanting to die. That isn't to say that he committed suicide per se, but perhaps he had fulfilled his purpose, and wasn't going to fight death when it arrived. Another commenter wrote that Jeff may have been curious to taste death, and this is something I can connect with. He may have seen death as a pathway to rebirth, and who knows, he may have wanted this. | |
| Jeff Buckley – River of Dope Lyrics | 11 years ago |
| I think Jeff was in a very dark place when he wrote this as well as most (if not all) of the other songs on Sketches, but whether he had escaped from that darkness at the time of his death, I am not really sure. What is evident in his lyrics though, is that he was haunted by the memory of his father, lost loves, and the corrupt nature of fame, among other things. I don't know if he consciously chose to walk into the river to die, but I do feel that at a certain point, it would have made sense to him and maybe he just did not fight it. Perhaps he even knew he would drown, (dare I say, he may have wanted to...). He was such a water creature, even astrologically. Water always symbolizes emotion and sensitivity, of which he obviously had in abundance... enough to drown in. He was so intensely spiritual, it comes as no surprise to me that he would die in such an enigmatic yet strangely prophetic way. | |
| Jeff Buckley – Nightmares By The Sea Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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In the French folktale, Bluebeard is an old aristocrat who's past six wives had all disappeared and who is feared by the local women and girls for his enigmatic and concealing blue beard. He remarries, telling his new wife never to enter one of the rooms in his castle. She disobeys, and discovers the bodies of Bluebeard's murdered wives. Jeff uses Bluebeard as a metaphor to express how he may not be what he seems based on his physical appearance, "Your Bluebeard's young and handsome", how the women who fall for him don't realize or recognize that he has (hidden) inner demons, "Beware the bottled thoughts of angry young men..." "Don't know what you asked for", and that he has had many lovers in the past who he has had to "drown" or lose, but has not forgotten, and this haunts him, hence the lines, "I've loved so many times..." and "...they'll rise up when darkness falls". This is an extremely dark and conflicted song, and in MY opinion, demonstrates Jeff's mental and emotional instability at the time. I believe he may have been having nightmares, specifically of a subconscious nature, due to the line "nightmares blind my mind's eye", that were revealing, and perhaps causing, all of this turmoil. Drowning, and water in general, is symbolic of overwhelming emotion and vulnerability, which accounts for the title and general underlying theme and mood of the song. Jeff was very much an Ondine, even astrologically. Quite haunting indeed... |
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