 Genius Lyrics
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Jeff Buckley – So Real
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[Verse 1] / Love, let me sleep tonight on your couch / And remember the smell of the fabric of your simple city dress / [Chorus] / Oh... that was so real / Oh... that was so real
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Jeff Buckley – So Real (Live at Südbahnhof, Frankfurt, Germany - February 1995)
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[Verse 1] / Love, let me sleep tonight on your couch / And remember the smell of the fabric of your simple city dress / [Chorus] / Oh... that was so real / Oh... that was so real
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Jeff Buckley – So Real (Live)
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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 / Oh, that was so real / Oh, that was so real
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Jeff Buckley & Gary Lucas – Cruel
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Oh yeah / Born no longer just a baby / Always trying to keep in one place for long, oh long enough to sleep / Oh sleep and dreams are here the same / Got no rest they'll no longer
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Jeff Buckley – I Know It's Over
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“I Know It’s Over” is Jeff Buckley’s second cover from The Smiths album The Queen Is Dead
In an interview with NPR Jeff’s mother, Mary Guibert said Jeff idolised The Smiths:
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Jeff Buckley – Dream Brother
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“Dream Brother”, written by Jeff Buckley, Mick Grøndahl and Matt Johnson, is the last track on Buckley’s album Grace but is the penultimate track on later releases of the album. It
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Jeff Buckley – Last Goodbye
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“Last Goodbye” was the second single from Grace. It details a man ending a relationship with a woman who both love each other, but both come to terms with the fact that they are
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Jeff Buckley – Grace
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The song was based on an instrumental song called “Rise Up to Be” written by Buckley’s collaborator, Gary Lucas. Jeff wrote lyrics inspired by his saying goodbye to his girlfriend
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Jeff Buckley – Let's Bomb The Moonlight
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So well / The world is diagnosed with terminal cancer / Flesh is not union this culture is not freedom / And the world has terminal cancer / I want to live with you / Let's bomb
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Jeff Buckley – Dream Brother (Live at Howlin Wolf, New Orleans, LA - December 1994)
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[Verse 1] / There is a child sleeping near his twin / The pictures go wild in a rush of wind / That dark angel he is shuffling in / Watching over them with his black feather wings
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Jeff Buckley – Lover, You Should've Come Over
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[Verse 1] / Looking out the door I see the rain / Fall upon the funeral mourners / Parading in a wake of sad relations / As their shoes fill up with water / Maybe I'm too young
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Jeff Buckley – Grace (Live at MTV's 120 Minutes, New York, NY - January 1995)
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[Verse 1] / There's the moon asking to stay / Long enough for the clouds to fly me away / Well it's my time coming, I'm not afraid, afraid to die / My fading voice sings of love
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Jeff Buckley – Forget Her
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[Verse 1] / While this town is busy sleeping / All the noise has died away / I walk the streets to stop my weeping / Cause she'll never change her ways / [Chorus 1] / But don't
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The Smiths – I Know It's Over
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“I Know It’s Over” is a ballad for the desperate and lonely. It uses basic allusions to the idea of loneliness producing despair, but the attention to the speaker’s ego, and how it
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Jeff Buckley – Kanga-Roo (Live at Palais Theatre, Melbourne, Australia - February 1996)
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[Verse 1] / When I first saw you / You had on blue jeans / Your eyes couldn't hide anything / I saw you breathing, oh / Saw you staring out in space / [Verse 2] / When I next saw
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Jeff Buckley – Last Goodbye (Live at MTV's 120 Minutes, New York, NY - January 1995)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Jeff Buckley – Lilac Wine (Live at Eurockéennes Festival, Belfort, France - July 1995)
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[Part I] / [Verse 1] / I lost myself on a cool, damp night / I gave myself in that misty light / Was hypnotized by a strange delight / Under a lilac tree / [Verse 2] / I made wine
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Jeff Buckley – Last Goodbye (Live at MTV's Most Wanted, London, UK - March 1995)
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[Verse 1] / 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
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Jeff Buckley – Mojo Pin (Live at Südbahnhof, Frankfurt, Germany - February 1995)
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[Verse 1] / 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 / [
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Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah (Live at MTV Japan, Tokyo, Japan - January 1995)
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[Verse 1] / Well I heard there was a secret chord / That David played, and it pleased the Lord / But you don't really care for music, do ya? / Well it goes like this, the fourth
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Jeff Buckley (Ft. Shudder to Think) – I Want Someone Badly
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[Chorus] / Now I-I-I want someone badly / Got a girl here tonight wants someone new / Someone new / A little cry-y-y-y wants someone badly (wah-oop) / I wanna know if this is a bad
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Jeff Buckley – Mojo Pin
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“Mojo Pin” is the first song on Jeff Buckley’s 1994 album Grace. It was written by Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas, and was first introduced on his EP, Live at Sin-é. Buckley stated
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Jeff Buckley – Kanga-Roo (Studio Outtake - 1993)
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[Verse 1] / When I first saw you / You had on blue jeans / Your eyes couldn't hide anything / I saw you breathing, oh / Saw you staring out in space / [Verse 2] / When I next saw
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Jeff Buckley – Hallelujah
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The song, written by Leonard Cohen, is about love which has soured and gone stale. Cohen used a lot of religious imagery, including references to some of the more notorious women
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