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Love, let me sleep tonight on you couch
And remember the smell of the fabric
Of your simple city dress
Oh... that was so real
We walked around til the moon got full like a plate
The wind blew an invocation and i fell asleep at the gate
And I never stepped on the cracks 'cause i thought i'd hurt my mother
And I couldn't awake from the nightmare that sucked me in and pulled me under
Pulled me under
Oh... that was so real
I love you, but i'm afraid to love you
I love you, but i'm afraid to love you
And remember the smell of the fabric
Of your simple city dress
The wind blew an invocation and i fell asleep at the gate
And I never stepped on the cracks 'cause i thought i'd hurt my mother
And I couldn't awake from the nightmare that sucked me in and pulled me under
Pulled me under
I love you, but i'm afraid to love you
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I always loved this song, but I only recently 'get it' on reflection of my former love. Its amazing how you can have a feeling so strong, but after it's gone it can feel so distant. I sometimes imagine he says 'surreal' instead of 'so real' - 'cause you know, it is.
Just like practically everyone here, I love this song...amazing. Jeff Buckley is just fantastic.
But has anyone else thought the lyrics "and I couldn't awake from the nightmare that sucked me in and pulled me under, pulled me under " are really creepy given the way he tragically passed away?
Ever had that isolated moment that leaps out at you from the normal stream of existence because it's so perfectly crystalized? That's the feeling I get from this song and the repeated phrase "so real." Buckley always seems like he's on something of a different plane, but isolated moments bring him into sharp contact with the world around him. Love -- the kind of really connecting, belonging-to-another-soul love -- was, I think, kind of scary for Jeff, because it would have impacted the fragile beauty of the world in his head. Decades from now, people are going to be listening to every single note and shading of Buckley's music, like they do with Charlie Parker or Django Reinhardt, trying to hear all the nuances of music and emotion he packed in there.
I've never heard anyone who really got it. Wow I must commend you and tell you how happy reading this made me! You could not have come closer by saying,
I've never heard anyone who really got it. Wow I must commend you and tell you how happy reading this made me! You could not have come closer by saying,
"Buckley always seems like he's on something of a different plane, but isolated moments bring him into sharp contact with the world around him. Love -- the kind of really connecting, belonging-to-another-soul love -- was, I think, kind of scary for Jeff, because it would have impacted the fragile beauty of the world in his head."
"Buckley always seems like he's on something of a different plane, but isolated moments bring him into sharp contact with the world around him. Love -- the kind of really connecting, belonging-to-another-soul love -- was, I think, kind of scary for Jeff, because it would have impacted the fragile beauty of the world in his head."
You hit the nail on the HEAD my friend. Indeed such is...
You hit the nail on the HEAD my friend. Indeed such is the case because he would be cheating, on his music so to speak.
jeff was afraid of natural bodies of water...he used drowning imagery in heaps of songs, but it was an accident the day he drowned....finally wasn;t afraid to go into a natural body of water...closure....
This song is so amazing...it has this almost elegant acoustic bit at the beginning and then how it goes into the totally rocking hard-core bit in the middle is just phenomenal. Jeff Buckley's voice is amazing, his skills as a songwriter are unquestioned and the tone and atmosphere he brings to this song make you want to cry.
this song is wonderful!!!! the film clip is amazing and the music just makes me cry...."i love you but i'm afraid to love you" - yeah, i get that....
This song is so real.
this song is greatest song of all time. jeff buckley is the greatest musican of all time, this song proves that. i believe the true meaning is about being so in love with someone that your afraid. and jeff is just so poetic the words are so hard to interput so i guess you can mean whateva you want them to mean but i must say how awesome the guitar solo is. i find it so sad he died he achieved so much though....
Obviously a fantastic song...one of the best ever written...i was told that the distorted bit in the middle was done so that it wasn't radio friendly...but this is just what i've been told, and i'm sure it could represent a break up.
I love this song man. oh yeah shivers me timbers o argh! Not to keen on the distorted bit somehow. which is weird cos I'm a fan of Nirvana and the like. Think it seems out of place in this song tho. But hey, who am I? x x