| The Goo Goo Dolls – Iris Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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This was written for one of the girls he left his wife for. He lived with her briefly in a NYC hotel. Drugs, alcohol, etc. Typical Lost Weekend. Crazy girl. Didn't last of course. Such a romantic song though. |
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| Jeff Buckley – Grace Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| That's interesting, and I know Jeff loved Nusrat so probably was familiar with some sufi philosophy, but maybe stick with what Jeff himself said about the song? it's about not obsessing over death anymore because you found your soulmate and finally feel loved. Love frees you, love chases away fear. | |
| Jeff Buckley – So Real Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Jeff admitted the second verse (we walked around till the moon got full ..) was about his mother and stepfather's divorce when he was a young kid. About how people who love each fight and make life difficult for each other, put up walls and don't let love through. Watching that break up as a kid influenced his own later inability to trust love "I love you but I'm afraid to love you". The first verse (love let me sleep ...) was about the girl he had recently broken up with. | |
| Jeff Buckley – You and I Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| This was recorded a year before Jeff died. How is that a last transmission? | |
| Jeff Buckley – Nightmares By The Sea Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I agree with most of your post but for one thing: according to jeff's journals it's not 'bluebeard' it's 'rube' which jeff definitely was when he first came to NYC | |
| Jeff Buckley – Forget Her Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| Funny thing is, it was Jeff who cheated on Moore | |
| Jeff Buckley – All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| The studio version was sung with Liz of course but the song was written before they hooked up in London. Pretty sure it was written about his ex, Rebecca Moore. Really beautiful song about love and patience. Giving someone all the time and support they need, even if they're full of doubt and being stubborn. The live version from Australia is even better imo | |
| Jeff Buckley – All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think they were written about the same time | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Beautiful Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"I'll be here just waiting for you I'll be under your stars forever neither here nor there, just right beside you I'll be under the stairs forever neither here nor there, just right beside you" There was a small room, in the back of the old house, tucked under the back stairs, where he spent many lonely hours. It was in this room that most of the songs on Mellon Collie, including Beautiful, were written(or at least those parts he didn't hear in a dream) and, yes ... she was beautiful. and still is. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Medellia of the Grey Skies Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| a fish can love a bird, but where will they live? | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Blue Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Blue was a girl. True as blue sky ... "on tour forever, blue i lay with you this velvet morning stay with me for a while a million yeses and no's strewn across 6 long years. but it all adds up to something even if you are not quite sure of what that is" Yesterday the sky was you and I still feel the same |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Ma Belle Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Regrets? I've had a few. Two Gemini moons ... |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Bye June Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"Remember the good ole 1980's? When things were so uncomplicated? I wish I could go back there again And everything could be the same I've got a ticket to the moon I'll be leaving here any day soon Yeah, I've got a ticket to the moon But I'd rather see the sunrise in your eyes" |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Methusela Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’ Numbers 14:18 |
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| Billy Corgan – Tilt Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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mayonaise part 2 promises, promises |
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| Billy Corgan – Now (and Then) Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"so hid me when you go back amongst the reeds" sad allusion to the baby Moses. abandoned by his mother and left behind in a basket, nestled in the reeds beside the River Nile ... found and rescued by an Egyptian Princess. i think we should just be friends. it's better for both of us this way. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Pug Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Lily (My One and Only) Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Billy and his wife had two black cats, Lily and Thelonius Monk. Lily was VERY attached to Billy. You can briefly see Billy's cat (and his wife) during the end credits of Vieuphoria. |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – X.Y.U. Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| sometimes he really does write songs about courtney | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins – Blank Page Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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A blank page ... empty, lonely ... a new beginning, a fresh start ... a lover's silence more painful than cruel words ... there's a certain type of person - elusive, known only to themselves, a firefly you can not catch - you can imagine them to be anything you want "with eyes like stars to hang your dreams upon" |
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| The Smashing Pumpkins – Ava Adore Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"I believe Billy said that this song was just an example of him writing words together that just rhymed, with a very loose common theme." Billy says this sort of thing when he doesn't want to tell you the truth. It's not about Courtney Song was first recorded in july 96 and his mom died in dec 96 so its not about that either It's a love/hate, end of the relationship song During the Zeitgeist tour, he would end the song with "we must never be apart, till death do us part" So there you go |
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