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Jeff Buckley Tribute Songs
Juliana
Hatfield - Trying Not to Think About It
Southern California is bad for the soul
And New york City takes its toll
The Mississippi River has a mean undertow
How can I shield myself from the things that I hear
I want to close my eyes and sleep for a year
Tell me that its only a dream, that its a nightmare
Trying not to think about it
Trying not to think about it
How can your mother be so strong
When her only baby is gone?
I don't know where you are, everything is wrong
so I'm trying not to think about it
trying not to think about it
So maybe I wasn't
that good a friend
but you were one of us
and I will wonder
Just like anyone
if there was something
else I could've done
So maybe it's true that
your cry for help
was oh, so very faint
but still I heard
and knew something was wrong
just nothing you could put your finger on
and i will wonder
just like anyone
just like anyone
The end must come for some good reason
I've heard it said before
To everything a time and season
What was this season for?
In a flash, in a flash
There one moment and gone in a flash
Think of all the strangers you've encountered
In cafes or subway trains
Or lined up at this water fountain
One drink and on your way
In a flash, in a flash
There one moment and gone in a flash
When hopes are rising like a rocket
When cups are overflowing
When hearts were filled like childrens pockets
It's then I'll hear your song
In a flash, in a flash
There one moment and gone in a flash
Our eyes can't help but disbelieve this
Bad news and even though
The end must come for some good reason
Right now I just don't know
In a flash, in a flash
There one moment and gone in a flash
There one moment...
Gone in a flash
Once in a while
A man comes along
Even his failures were favorite songs
Oh to have made something so unsurpassed
As certain things fall away
So certain things last
A body goes down
In the Mississippi waters
Weighted by a beauty
Afraid of its light
Notify your holy men
Console your sons and daughters
And tell me one more time
What is just
What is right
Chances are good
We spread blasphemous lies
Safe to say nobody knew what was inside
Of course there is grace
And those halos of pain
Maybe he sang what he came here to sing
A body goes down
In the Mississippi waters
Weighted by a beauty
Afraid of its light
Notify your holy men
Console your sons and daughters
And tell me one more time
What is just
What is right
Speed on to the next world
Speed on to the next life
Better I'm sure by far
Orpheus driven
Treasures given
Heal the most broken of hearts...
Speed on...
Speed on...
Speed on...
I accept your invitation
I accept your lonely truth
I've had the information trickle through
Some of us like dancing
A lot of us take dope
A lot of this romancing hits the floor
The rhythm of the road
And all these selfish clowns
The junkies and the booze
Go lever go
You'll always wear that crown
Regardless of their moods
Some Mississippi River took you one bad day
Who wounds himself with roses?
Who dares the saddest song?
Who struggles with his lover's needs?
Who dares to carry on?
Stay in the spaceship you command
Don't mind those people who pretend
To be helping one another
They're just a running their own game
They're stuck with all their fancies
They're sick inside their brain
They want to carry on and on
They want to make us pay
But after all the work is done
Who minds himself and who just plays?
Who wounds himself with roses?
Who dares the saddest song?
Who struggles with his lover's needs?
And still finds the trick to carry on?
Sticks a greenback to my fretboard
Skates a junkie through my brain
Make a quick delivery
Never coming back again
Move me
Don't try
Let the music reach me tonight
Push me over into something new
I've been riding all day on a bus
Just to listen to you
I love, I love, I love I love the look
In your trespassed eyes
I love, I love, I love I love the way
You can make me cry
Sink me into stirred-up sea
Something I can drown in
Only you can do this to me
I love, I love, I love I love the look
In your trespassed eyes
I love, I love, I love I love the way
You can make me cry
Fill me up
And drop me down, yeah
Now I'm alive in the valley of sound
In the valley of sound
In the valley of sound, yeah
In the valley of sound
I love, I love, I love I love the look
In your trespassed eyes, yeah
I love, I love, I love I love the way
You can make me cry
Yeah yeah, in the valley of sound
Hmm, the valley of sound, yeah yeah yeah
Valley, valley, you can
The valley of sound
Valley...
Well, they're carving up your legacy
unresistable for those like me
that heard you
scream and sing and shout and soar
like some wild demon from below
like some fallen angel
against strings that like vapour trails
blur when touched by human nails
you took us higher than we'd ever been before
yes you did
Now they got your mother picking out your tunes
and your band all doing interviews
so well intentioned
and everybody's asking why
was it like they said or did they lie
you've never been so mentioned
I for one would reather wonder than
be disappointed by a perfect man
you took us higher than we'd ever been
you took us higher than we'd ever been
you took us higher than we'd ever been before
Now they're all wondering how it was done
well, how did he learn
one so young did he make a deal
that would be "so real"
I for one would rather wonder than
completely know such a perfect man
you took us higher than we'd ever been before
yes you did
you took us higher than we'd ever been before
you took us higher
you made us feel so good
you made us feel so good
you made us feel so good
yes you did
I spend my days sleeping these days
Nothing turns me on
You're the green lantern till your
Chemicals subside
I remember Texas and when
You were still alive
In a perfect world I see you
Side step the bullet
In a better universe you
Side step the bullet
Lie down on the floor
I follow the ouiji to you
Tell me everything you thought that
I'd find out from someone you knew
A buffalo nickel pressed into my palm
Like a song like a psalm psalm
In a perfect world I get along
In a perfect world I see you...
You set fire to the break of day
In a flood of light you slip away
But you didn't think to write or call
When you thought to end it all
A broken record of what I never said
And stacks of what Rilke had to say
Piled on the bed
You the sheik me the slave
Me old age and you the grave
In a perfect world I see you...
Driving through Texas with the television on
Hand me down the picture,
of you leaving unsaid
I know how simple it gets
But say by chance I need you
you will always be there
And I will lie with you
neath the beeches
On the strand again
I'm learning to hand it over
To whatever Lord there be
And in the same old colours
I'll be dressed for thee
But it's not about that though is it?
It's about you and me
I hung your feet
that famous painting above my bed
And you told me a story
about some guy who kept his head
He drowned near the southport
neath the pier
Where we stand
And I will lie with you
neath the beeches
On the strand again.
words get tangled on your tongue
and you stumble on your tears
when you miss somebody
and everywhere you think
you see them walking down the street
when you miss somebody
oh yeah when you miss somebody
you tell yourself a hundred thousand times
nobody ever lives forever
so you give it one more try -
wave goodbye
wave goodbye
every hurtful thing you ever said
is ringing in your ears
when you miss somebody
and every thing of beauty
that you see
only brings a tear
when you miss somebody
oh when you miss somebody,
you tell yourself that everything will be alright,
got to stand up strong babe
when all you want to do
is lay down and die
wave goodbye
so now you stop to recognise
that every single path you see
leads to a tear in your eye
wave goodbye
wave goodbye
wave goodbye
wave goodbye
5 o'clock AM
The sun starts to begin
And I think about you
At the bottom of Beal Street
With the boots still on your feet
Water all around you
You come on the radio, WFUV
Oh why did you have to go?
You were not my friend
So I won't try to pretend
That I knew
What hurt you so
And I never heard you play
Or saw you at Sin-e
And now
I'll never know
Everybody wants to know
Was it love, drugs,
A little of both?
What was he thinking?
And when they rip you open wide
Will they say it was suicide?
Was he high, lost,
Was he drinking?
You come on the radio
And I'm hit
Knocked down to the floor
Oh you had so far to go
And I wanted more
Wanted to hear more
And you were not my friend
So I won't try to pretend
That I knew
What hurt you so
And I never heard you play
Or saw you at Sin-e
And now
I'll never know
5 o'clock AM
The sun starts to begin
And I think about you
Untie me, we're taking away
Unlikely, out if time
When you still got so much to say
Well I'll write it, a song for you
But oh
What a way to go
So peaceful
You're smiling
Oh
What a way to go
I'm with you
I'm singing
You said there's a special place
And it's scaring the shit out of me
In Memphis on Valentines Day
You wrote it in a letter to me
Well I wish I had given you more time
To say thank you, my beautiful friend
But sometimes you gotta send it away
To bring it, to bring it back again
But oh
What a way to go
So peaceful
You're smiling
Oh
What a way to go
I'm with you
I'm singing
You'll always have open eyes
You'll always have a special place
In Memphis on Valentines Day
Die suddenly at a wonderful age
Though were you ready, were you ready to go
When you still got so much to say
Somehow I know you're driving slow
Receiving just everything
But oh
What a way to go
So peaceful
You're smiling
Oh
What a way to go
I'm know that
You're smiling
You're peaceful
You're smiling
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