Dream Letter Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Harmony4 

Cover art for Dream Letter lyrics by Tim Buckley

Didn't Tim choose not to see Jeff? I don't get why he's so sad.

To > Harmony4 >

Sometimes you feel so bad that you do horrible things to feel better, and then you regret it, it's human ! At a pinch you can blame Tim for having abandonned Jeff, but not for having regretted it later !

To > Harmony4 >

Humans are complicated you know, really complicated... Don't take my remarks as criticism, I thought like you before, I couldn't see why somebody can be sad, whereas this is he or she who's done the bad things, I was really narrow-minded and spiteful... But few months ago, something made me understand that people often do things without entirely being into it, if you see what I mean... They do bad things not especially to hurt you or for their own ego, sometimes it's far more complex than that, they do it because they can't do it in a different...

I'm in no way justifying Tim's absence in Jeff's life, but from what I've gathered through various interviews with friends, Tim was a very troubled person with low self-esteem deep down. I think he felt he wouldn't have been able to be a good father to Jeff, given the own abuse he went through with his own father.