a Jeff Buckley album

Anyone who knows anything about Jeff Buckley will be familiar with the name, if not the song or the entire album of Grace. It is so well known and acclaimed for good reason: no one has ever done what Jeff Buckley and his faithful band have done, no one has ever written the music, played the chords or sung the songs that they created as a band, and no one could have known just how talented and beautiful Jeff Buckley himself was, until his body was found in a river in Memphis.

Grace is an album full of delicate beauty laced with passion, sometimes turning into driving anger (or other strong emotions). Each song, even those written by others, are full of atmospheric guitar sounds in the right places, and Jeff's extraordinary voice becomes another layer, an instrument in its own right, rather than some guy singing the lyrics. Below are the lyrics and any remark I have to make about the particular song. If you don't own this album but his life and lyrics intrigue you, buy it, you won't regret it.

mojo pin
grace
last goodbye
lilac wine
so real
hallelujah
lover, you should have come over
corpus christi
eternal life
dream brother

Lyrics from Grace

Mojo Pin I'm lying in my bed, the blanket is warm This body will never be safe from harm Still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal Touch my skin to keep me whole Oh, if only you'd come back to me If you laid at my side Wouldn't need no mojo pin To keep me satisfied Don't wanna weep for you, don't wanna know I'm blind and tortured, the white horses flow The memories fire, the rhythms fall slow... Black beauty, I love you so Precious precious silver and gold, And pearls in oyster's flesh Drop down we two to serve and pray to love Born again from the rhythm screaming down from heaven Ageless, ageless and I'm there in your arms The welts of your scorn my love, give me more give me more Send whips of opinion down my back, give me more Well it's you I've waited my life to see It's you I've searched so hard for

Grace There's the moon asking to stay Long enough for the clouds to fly me away Oh it's my time coming, I'm not afraid... Afraid to die. My fading voice sings of love But she cries to the clicking of time Oh, time... Wait in the fire, wait in the fire... And she weeps on my arm Walking to the bright lights in sorrow, Oh drink a bit of wine, we both might come tomorrow Oh my love And the rain is falling, And I believe my time has come It reminds me of the pain I might leave... leave behind Wait in the fire, wait in the fire... And I feel them drown my name, So easy to know and forget with this kiss Oh I'm not afraid to go, But it goes so slow...

Last Goodbye This is our last goodbye I hate to feel the love between us die But it's over, Just hear this and then I'll go You gave me more to live for, More than you'll ever know. Oh now this is our last embrace Must I dream and always see your face? Why can't we overcome this wall? Well maybe it's just because I didn't know you at all Kiss me, please kiss me But kiss me out of desire, baby, not consolation You know it makes me so angry, cos I know that in time I'll only make you cry, This is our last goodbye. Did you say, no this can't happen to me, Did you rush to the phone to call Was there a voice unkind, in the back of your mind Saying maybe... You didn't know him at all, You didn't know him at all, Oh didn't know... Well the bells out in the churchtower chime Burning clues into this heart of mine Thinking so hard, on her soft eyes And the memories offer signs that it's over It's over...

Lilac Wine I lost myself on a cool, damp night Gave myself in that misty light I was hypnotised by a strange delight Under a lilac tree. I made wine from the lilac tree, Put my heart in its recipe It makes me see what I want to see And be what I want to be When I think more than I want to think Do things I never should do I drink much more than I ought to drink Because it brings me back to you Lilac wine is sweet and heady, like my love Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, like my love Listen to me, I cannot see clearly Isn't that she, coming to me, nearly here Lilac wine is sweet and heady, where's my love? Lilac wine, I feel unsteady, where's my love? Listen to me, why is everything so hazy Isn't that she, or am I just going crazy, dear? Lilac wine, I feel unready for my love bulking table

So Real Love, let me sleep tonight on your couch and remember the smell of the fabric of your simple city dress Oh, that was so real... We walked around till the moon got full like a plate And the wind blew an invocation I fell asleep at the gate And I never stepped on the cracks Cos 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'm afraid... Oh, that was so real Just bulking up the table to make it fit

Hallelujah I heard there was a secret chord That David played and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? Well it goes like this, the fourth, the fifth The minor fall and the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah Hallelujah... Well your faith was strong but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew you. She tied you to her kitchen chair She broke your throne and she cut you hair And from your lips she drew the hallelujah Hallelujah... Baby, I've been here before I've seen this room and I've walked this floor I used to live alone before I knew you. And I've seen your flag on the marble arch, But love is not a victory march It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah Hallelujah... Well there was a time when you let me know What's really going on below But now you never show that to me, do you? But remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too, And every breath we drew was hallelujah? Well maybe there's a god above, But all I ever learned from love Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you It's not a cry that you hear at night, It's not somebody who's seen the light, It's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah...

Lover, you should have come over Looking out the door I see the rain Fall upon the funeral mourners Parading in the wake of sad relations As their shoes fill up with water Well maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong But tonight, you're on my mind, so you never know Broken down and hungry fro your love, And no way to feed it Oh where are you tonight, child, You know how much I need it. Too young to hold on, and much to old to break free and run Sometimes a man gets carried away When he feels like he should be having his fun And much too blind to see the damage he's done Sometimes a man must awake to find that really, He has no one. So I'll wait for you, and I'll burn Will I ever see your sweet return? Oh, will I ever learn? Oh lover, you should have come over Cos it's not too late... Lonely is the room, the open window lets the rain in Burning in the corner is the only one Who dreams he had you with him My body turns, and yearns for a sleep that won't ever come Cos it's never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder It's never over, all my riches for her smiles When I slept so soft against her It's never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter It's never over, she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever Well maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong Oh lover, you should have come over Cos it's not too late. Well I feel too young to hold on And I'm much too old to break free and run Too deaf dumb and blind to see the damage I've done Sweet lover, you should have come over... Cos it's not too late.

Corpus Christi Carol Lully lullay, lully lullay The faulon has borne my mate away He bare him up, he bare him down He bare him into an orchard brown In that orchard there was an halle That was hanged with purple and pall And in that hall there was a bede That was hanged with gold so rede And in that bed there lithe a knight His woundes bleding day and night By that bede side kneeleth a may And she weepeth both night and day By that bede side there stondeth a ston Corpus Christi written thereon

Eternal Life Eternal life is now on my trail Got my red glitter coffin man, just need one last nail While all the ugly gentlemen play out their foolish games There's a flaming red horizon that screams our names And as your fantasies are broken in two, Did you really think this bloody road would pave the way for you? You better turn around and blow your kiss hello to life eternal, angel Racist everyman, what have you done? Man, you've made a killer of your unborn son Crown my fear your king at the point of a gun All I want to do is to love everyone. There's no time for hatred, only questions: What is love, where is happiness What is life, where is peace? When will I find the strength to bring me release? Tell me where is the love in what your prophet has said? Man it sounds to me just like a prison for the walking dead And I've got a message for you and your twisted hell You better turn around and blow your kiss goodbye to life eternal, angel Not a huge fan of this song

Dream Brother There is a child sleeping near his twin Pictures go wild in a rush of wind That dark angel he is shuffling in, Watching over them with his black feather wings unfurled. The love you lost with her skin so fair Is free with the wind in her butterscotch hair Her green eyes bloom goodbyes With her head in her hands and your kiss on the lips of another. Dream brother, With your tears scattered around the world. Don't be like the one who made me so old, Don't belie the one who left behind his name Cos they're waiting for you like I waited for mine And nobody ever came. I feel afraid and I call your name I love your voice and your dance insane I hear your words and I know your pain Your head in your hands and her kiss on the lips of another Your eyes to the ground And the world spinning round forever Asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over...