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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
And maybe I'm too young
To keep good love from going wrong
But tonight you're on my mind so you'll never know
I'm broken down and hungry for your love
With no way to feed it
Where are you tonight?
Child, you know how much I need it
Too young to hold on
And too old to just break free and run
Sometimes a man gets carried away
When he feels like he should be having his fun
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, love
And I'll burn
Will I ever see your sweet return
Oh, will I ever learn?
Oh, lover, you should've come over
Cause it's not too late
Lonely is the room, the bed is made
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
It's never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder
It's never over, all my riches for her smiles when I've slept so soft against her
It's never over, all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter
It's never over, she is the tear that hangs inside my soul forever
Oh, but maybe I'm just too young
To keep good love from going wrong
Oh, lover, you should've come over
Yes, I feel too young to hold on
And much to old to break free and run
Too deaf, dumb and blind to see the damage I've done
Sweet lover, you should've come over
Oh, love, well I've waited for you
Lover, you should've come over
'Cause it's not too late
| Marley (Portland, Or) | Posted: Oct 31, 2009 - 15:52 I know I'm 'supposed' to like this guy and all, but I really, really don't. Like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. |
| Bridieboo (Halifax, NS) | Posted: Aug 29, 2009 - 13:03 Lovely song. Beautiful voice. |
| ginger (Connecticut) | Posted: Aug 29, 2009 - 13:00 nagsheadlocal wrote: Suffers in the same manner as his "Halleluja" - he really doesn't have a voice. Wow, what a shocking comment. Have you listened to the whole album? I think Jeff might have had one of the best male voices of all time, and I am a professional singer (so very picky and critical). Rarely do you find someone with the depth, range and control he had. Truly, a tragic loss, and we can only imagine what he might have gone on to do. |
| cirruss (Curacao, Netherlands Antilles) | Posted: Aug 29, 2009 - 12:57 nagsheadlocal wrote: Suffers in the same manner as his "Halleluja" - he really doesn't have a voice. You must be deaf if you can't hear it. |
| GINRUSH (Rochester, MI) | Posted: Jun 27, 2009 - 05:16 The opening of this song had a "Us and Them" Floyd feel to it.... than again.... maybe it's just me.. now I hear Adam Lambert from American Idol...maybe just me again. |
| Bone (Divided States of Sanity) | Posted: May 26, 2009 - 10:09 annersjen wrote: That is simply a tragic response =shrug= I believe Jeff was one of the tragic losses of the late 20th Century, and while nagsheadlocal would disagree with that... I would disagree with his allocating a '10' to Wall of Voodoo's "Mexican Radio" or ANYTHING Alanis Morrissette has done. Long live the healthy debate and instant democracy of Radio Paradise!! |
| toterola (Further) | Posted: Apr 24, 2009 - 18:10 pinklife wrote: Uh...Leonard Cohen? Yeah, Jeff has a version of Mr. Cohen's song. I think Jeff's version is tied with Rufus Wainwright's, for pure vocal beauty. But they are both second to the Maestro. I saw Leonard at Coachella last Friday (4/17). It was a life's dream realized. I got to see Morrisey (he sucked), The Black Keys (rock-iron-roll!) and Paul McCartney the same night. Probably the best concert of my life. Oh, yeah: nagsheadlocal, you can kiss my  . |
| annersjen (in the rolling hills of New York) | Posted: Apr 24, 2009 - 17:54 nagsheadlocal wrote: Suffers in the same manner as his "Halleluja" - he really doesn't have a voice. That is simply a tragic response |
| ploba (the other coast and hang a left) | Posted: Mar 24, 2009 - 05:20 Atlantis wrote: I don't give many 3's, but Ho Hum is just such an apt description. "ho hum"...c'mon you cant be serious?....love it or hate it - this song is most definitely NOT "ho hum" |
| jjbix (san diego) | Posted: Feb 20, 2009 - 16:08 JB sings with a Passion few other singers can match! |
| pinklife (St. Augustine, FL) | Posted: Feb 20, 2009 - 15:57 Stefen wrote: Well, at least his "Hallelujah" is good. Uh...Leonard Cohen? |
| bbHappy (39.991323, -105.261375, elev. 1654m) | Posted: Dec 19, 2008 - 09:00 Laptopdog wrote: I purposely rated this song a 9, just to counter all you whiners.  God forbid that the guy sings (sang) with a lot of emotion. I guess you'd rather hear some Jimmy Buffett to keep yourselves nice and placated. There's no denying the guy sang with a lot of emotion. But, I'm sorry, pouring your heart out, while it may be cathartic, is not the only component of good music. If that was the case, every emotional train wreck out there would be making top selling hits. |
| nagsheadlocal (North Carolina, the new New Jersey) | Posted: Dec 19, 2008 - 08:05 Stefen wrote: Well, at least his "Hallelujah" is good. Suffers in the same manner as his "Halleluja" - he really doesn't have a voice. |
| greyfin10 (Panama City, FL) | Posted: Dec 19, 2008 - 08:04 I rarely get maudlin about musicians dying young... it happens so damned often I guess you get used to it somehow. But I first heard Jeff Buckley on a college radio station (Rollins College in Winter Park) about two years ago. I did a u-turn and went to a music store and bought everything they had by him. Come in the door, sit down at the computer and put this cd in the machine, and browse the web to learn about him. He's already dead. A serious bummer... and I am not ashamed to say I shed a few for him. |
| dkeifer | Posted: Dec 19, 2008 - 08:02 What a f&*king loss..... |
| jpfueler (South o' Ft Worth) | Posted: Nov 17, 2008 - 18:08 sfListener wrote: Started out sounding like the Polka version of "Us and Them". me brain t'wer no the only one! |
| Stefen (West Hollywood, CA) | Posted: Nov 17, 2008 - 18:07 Well, at least his "Hallelujah" is good. |
| jpfueler (South o' Ft Worth) | Posted: Nov 17, 2008 - 18:05 Xeric wrote: This starts out pretty tolerable for Buckley. And then after that it's not. not paying attention fully and the lead-in sounds like Us And Them. Big let down when it is this. Not horrid, but certainly not great, and definitely not PF. |
| tugandbuster (Charlotte, NC) | Posted: Nov 17, 2008 - 18:05  |
| smilestoomuch (Mad City, WI) | Posted: Oct 17, 2008 - 05:56 robco1 wrote: And this is why I don't believe in trashing songs: these things can have powerful meanings, and it is incredibly disrespectful to those who find meaning in them. Especially a song about grief. Thank you for saying that. I get really sick of people being so very harsh about songs. You don't like it, fine. You can say that without being hateful. Unless the song is hateful in its purpose and meaning. Then it's ok.  |
| Laptopdog (Overcrowded, Overpriced & Overrated L.A.) | Posted: Sep 15, 2008 - 14:42 I purposely rated this song a 9, just to counter all you whiners. God forbid that the guy sings (sang) with a lot of emotion. I guess you'd rather hear some Jimmy Buffett to keep yourselves nice and placated. |
| bbHappy (39.991323, -105.261375, elev. 1654m) | Posted: Sep 15, 2008 - 14:39 keller1 wrote: Pass the Excedrin ... Turn down the volume for a few minutes. It will pass. |
| keller1 (Altered States) | Posted: Jul 14, 2008 - 09:20 Xeric wrote: Somebody please let go of this guy's balls!
Sorry. I know--great talent gone too soon, all that. But I just couldn't stand it, uh, three days ago, and I still can't. . . . Pass the Excedrin ... |
| oscar_driver (Planet Earth) | Posted: Jul 14, 2008 - 09:19 this song didn't work for me, i like him though .. Oscar |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet waiting for the ticket home) | Posted: Jul 14, 2008 - 09:18 Xeric wrote: Somebody please let go of this guy's balls!
Still with you on that one....Sorry. I know--great talent gone too soon, all that. But I just couldn't stand it, uh, three days ago, and I still can't. . . . |
| Xeric (Up on the Roof) | Posted: Jun 15, 2008 - 12:40 Somebody please let go of this guy's balls! Sorry. I know--great talent gone too soon, all that. But I just couldn't stand it, uh, three days ago, and I still can't. . . . |
| horstman (Syracuse, New York) | Posted: Jun 15, 2008 - 12:37 robco1 wrote:  Okay, I was a little harsh there. This song is intensely personal for me (think about the metaphor in the opening verse not being a metaphor), and I reacted too strongly.
Hope that is professional enough. And this is why I don't believe in trashing songs: these things can have powerful meanings, and it is incredibly disrespectful to those who find meaning in them. Especially a song about grief. Cool. I love a good flame as anyone else. Still a good song from a too soon lost talent. God what a set of pipes this guy had! |
| pojms (up by the yukon) | Posted: Jun 12, 2008 - 21:37 this tune had me drifting back and forth between digging it and cringeing at it. this is the first time i have heard of jeff buckley and i'm pretty sure i won't become a big jeff buckley fan, but i appreciate being exposed to it and all the other tunes that RP puts out. whether i dig them or cringe at them, they broaden my musical horizon.     |
| Xeric (Up on the Roof) | Posted: Jun 12, 2008 - 21:01 This starts out pretty tolerable for Buckley. And then after that it's not. |
| luca77 (Melbourne,Australia) | Posted: May 12, 2008 - 23:21 I'm rating this more on the acoustic live in Japan version which was the first Jeff song I ever heard. The album version is definitely overcooked but that's the way of things... I think people post such aggressively negative stuff about Jeff partly because they know his fans are generally sensitive souls prone to teary outbursts - it's cheap entertainment for the emotionally stunted. |
| robco1 (Chicago, IL) | Posted: May 12, 2008 - 14:54 horstman wrote: Ah, Jeff was put "out of his misery" as he drowned some years back. A great singer/songwriter. This song is a little overrought though although I love most of his music. He was a precious talent lost too early in his career. For shame. Oh, and to Robco1, you really need to chill out dude. He's entitled to his opinion as you are yours. We don't need visuals here on RP. Try to show some professionalism (if there is any to show). Okay, I was a little harsh there. This song is intensely personal for me (think about the metaphor in the opening verse not being a metaphor), and I reacted too strongly.
Hope that is professional enough. And this is why I don't believe in trashing songs: these things can have powerful meanings, and it is incredibly disrespectful to those who find meaning in them. Especially a song about grief. |
| horstman (Syracuse, New York) | Posted: Apr 13, 2008 - 13:48 jayvee2 wrote: I have to agree. Ive heard this twice now in as many days and I dont get it. Put him oust of his misery!!! Bill, you play a few stinkers but this is the stinkiest!
Ah, Jeff was put "out of his misery" as he drowned some years back. A great singer/songwriter. This song is a little overrought though although I love most of his music. He was a precious talent lost too early in his career. For shame. Oh, and to Robco1, you really need to chill out dude. He's entitled to his opinion as you are yours. We don't need visuals here on RP. Try to show some professionalism (if there is any to show). |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet waiting for the ticket home) | Posted: Apr 13, 2008 - 13:41 Just the voice alone makes me get up, step away from the computer, and go do something else! |
| PurplePrincess (the mountains) | Posted: Apr 10, 2008 - 22:21 Great song, great voice, great CD...please play Lilac Wine from this CD sometime. He outdoes Nina Simone (almost). |
| Atlantis | Posted: Mar 13, 2008 - 02:12 I don't give many 3's, but Ho Hum is just such an apt description. |
| prickelpit96 (Hannover, Germany) | Posted: Mar 13, 2008 - 02:07  |
| EssexTex (Trying to shake a crazy man off my hood) | Posted: Mar 10, 2008 - 11:03 I like most of what I've heard of his...it goes back to that thing, loyalty and blind devotion to a singer or band..or simply admitting that they can produce crap at times too! (make of that what you will) |
| Rafter101 | Posted: Mar 10, 2008 - 11:01 Just to evoke a moment to attach this song to... I had this on my MP3 player as my friends and I took our rafts for three weeks down the Grand Canyon. One night as the temperature barely dipped below 90, I lay out on my sleeping pad looking at the Arizona stars and listened to Jeff Buckley. I turned on my headlamp to read, and was immediately swarmed by some kind of non-biting bug. Millions of them. Billions! I was just about to turn the light off when I saw hundreds of small bats start a blitzkreig attack on the bugs. Darting in and out of my light beam, swallowing up a buffet, the bats cleared out every last bug alive. I was left with a completely unblocked sky, viewing stars and planets (and a few fat bats). Just me and Mr. Buckley, wailing away at the desert silence. |
| Dr-ice (Orange Beach, Bama) | Posted: Mar 10, 2008 - 10:57 Seems like this song will never end! |
| FlamingLotus (Austin, TX) | Posted: Mar 10, 2008 - 10:57 "She's a tear that hangs inside my soul forever..." Damn! Overproduced, in my opinion--I like the solo live version better. Still, damn! |
| sfListener | Posted: Mar 10, 2008 - 10:53 Started out sounding like the Polka version of "Us and Them". |
| Deccapod (Utrecht) | Posted: Jan 10, 2008 - 03:52 Bit confused by the low rating of this song. For me it's up there with some of best rock songs which you can listen to again and again - harmony and melody way more interesting than most, and catchy to boot, good vocal solos (if a bit too Bobby Planet orientated), excellent musicianship, superb arrangement. (I can see RP repsonses in my head to the industry patter). I also hear bit of magic in there as well. Always been one of my favourites. Grace is a masterpiece, and I believe Jeff would have been much more of a driving force of rock sons than Rufus has been (although I appreciate what Rufus is doing). |
| keller1 (Altered States) | Posted: Jan 07, 2008 - 12:43 robco1 wrote: I'm sure there's a Q-station out there with your name on it, pal. Judging from the overall rating, you're opinion is far in the minority. So why don't you keep it up your a** with the rest of your head?
Easy, now. There are certain voices that people seem to either love or hate. For instance, Thom Yorke's voice drives a significant minority of RP posters, including me, absolutely nuts, but Radiohead is one of the highest rated bands here. My comment here was going to be "Great voice, but too overwrought for me." Have to agree, though --- at a 7+ rating, I'm probably gonna have to learn to live with it --- just like Radiohead. |
| wferrier (Johnson City, New York; Home of the Factory) | Posted: Jan 07, 2008 - 12:41 Too much crying. Females are better at artistic cryingwait ever hear Left Bank Dont Walk Away Renee? Now thats some pretty good crying! |
| cc_rider (Austin Texas. Y'all.) | Posted: Jan 07, 2008 - 12:38 Hannio wrote: Okay, finish up, Jeff.
Um, he is quite finished, unfortunately. |
| robco1 (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Jan 07, 2008 - 12:36 jayvee2 wrote: I have to agree. Ive heard this twice now in as many days and I dont get it. Put him oust of his misery!!! Bill, you play a few stinkers but this is the stinkiest!
I'm sure there's a Q-station out there with your name on it, pal. Judging from the overall rating, you're opinion is far in the minority. So why don't you keep it up your a** with the rest of your head? |
| Pharlap | Posted: Jan 07, 2008 - 12:35 such a family curse! An analogy of talent wasted: Tim + Jeff= Bruce and Brandon Lee |
| elokin2141 (lancaster, PA (no i'm NOT AMISH)) | Posted: Jan 07, 2008 - 12:34 jayvee2 wrote: I have to agree. Ive heard this twice now in as many days and I dont get it. Put him oust of his misery!!! Bill, you play a few stinkers but this is the stinkiest!
I love this song! I wish you could explain your dislike a little better |
| jayvee2 (Lancaster, PA) | Posted: Dec 09, 2007 - 18:19 I have to agree. Ive heard this twice now in as many days and I dont get it. Put him oust of his misery!!! Bill, you play a few stinkers but this is the stinkiest! southend wrote: I think this may just be the worst song I've ever heard in my life. |
| Hannio (Austin, TX) | Posted: Nov 08, 2007 - 08:42 Okay, finish up, Jeff. |