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| Jeff Buckley – Grace Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I truly am sorry if I offended/upset you, your comment made me take a step back and rethink what I wrote. I love Jeff Buckley, and would never, EVER want to be harmful towards him or make others feel that way. I didn't however, say that Jeff committed suicide. What I meant by he let himself go was explained further when I said he wasn't going to fight death when it finally arrived. There was evidence to suggest that Jeff was dealing with a lot of inner turmoil at the time, and many of his friends DID suggest that he might have known his destiny. Michael Tighe even said that Jeff "had to come into something.. he had to die". While I don't know the exact meaning of this, I think it is unfair to say that my thoughts were "foolish gibberish", "unfounded and derogatory,". They might have been if I flat-out wrote "I think Jeff Buckley killed himself," but this is not the case. Even if I had written this, it would be my opinion, and I am free to express it, don't you agree? I just thought I should give an explanation and I hope you can obtain some further understanding. |
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| Jeff Buckley – Grace Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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I know that some people don't want to hear this, but I think Jeff knew very well that he would die young. I don't think anyone around him saw how broken he was, how lost and sad he was feeling, especially towards the end. The lines "wait in the fire" and "I'm not afraid to go, but it goes so slow," suggest not only an awareness of his impending death, but a hidden struggle with having to carry the pain for so long. I even think he knew early on how he was going to die, hence all of the drowning/water references in his songs, and I think he became increasingly more conscious of this as time went on. His songs were directly exercised from his soul, and revealed a lot of his inner turmoil which was not something he would have otherwise expressed outwardly. Maybe this is too far-fetched, but I also made the connection between the line "My fading voice sings of love," and how right before he drowned he was singing "Whole Lotta Love". I don't think we'll ever know exactly if he consciously chose to end his life, but there is significant evidence to suggest that he let himself go and he wasn't going to fight death when it finally arrived. |
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