Memphis Lyrics

Lyric discussion by scrimshaw 

Cover art for Memphis lyrics by PJ Harvey

A few corrections:

should be Untimely you were taken away

and I always thought that

was "Somehow I know you drank it slow", a reference to Jeff's drowning the "receiving just everything" might imply that death was something he wanted all along, as he did refer to it in a lot of his songs.

Also, "send it away to bring it back again" is a line shared with the Jeff Buckley song, "morning theft".