Eternal life is now on my trail

Got my red glitter coffin man

Just need one last nail

While all these 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 wave 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 love everyone

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

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?

And 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.

(...words and music by JEFF BUCKLEY. Eternal Life is on the GRACE album and also my fave Jeff song!)

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` WHAT WILL YOU SAY `

It's been such a long time and I was just a child then

What will you say when you see my face

Time feels like it's flown away

The days just pass and fade away

What will you say

When they take my place

It's funny now

I just don't feel like I'm a man

What will you say

When you see my face

My face

Mother dear

The world's gone cold

No one cares about love anymore What will you say

When you've seen my face

Father do you hear me

Do you know me

Do you even care

What will you say

When you take my place

My heart can't take it anymore

What will you say

When you see my face

I can feel your time crawling

To a slow end

I can feel my time calling

To a slow end

(by...JEFF BUCKLEY and CHRIS DOWD).

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` ULALUME` (by Edgar Allen Poe) ...spoken (poem) by Jeff Buckley.

The skies were ashen and sober

The leaves they were crisped and sere

The leaves they were withering and sere

It was night in the lonesome October

Of my most immorial year

It was hard by the dim lake of Auber

In the misty mood region of Weir

It was down by the dark tarn of Auber

In the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir

Here once, through an alley, Titanic

Of cypress, I roamed with my Soul

Of cypress, with Psyche, my Soul

These were the days when my heart was volcanic

As the scoriac rivers that roll

Their sulphurous currents down Yaaneck

In the ultimate climes of the pole

That groan as they roll down Mount Yaaneck

In the realms of the boreal pole

Our talk had been serious and sober

But our thoughts they were palsied and sere

Our memories were treacherous and sere

For we knew not the month was October

And we marked not the night of the year

(Ah, night of all nights in the year!)

We noted not the dim lake of Auber

(Though once we had journeyed down here)

Remembered not the dank tarn of Auber

Nor the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir

And now, as the night was senescent

And star-dials pointed to morn

As the star-dials hinted of morn

At the end of our path a liquescent

And nebulous lustre was born

Astarte's bediamonded crescent

Distinct with its duplicate horn

And I said: "She is warmer than Dian

She rolls through an ether of sighs

She reveals in a region of sighs"

She has seen that the tears are not dry on

These cheeks, where the worm never dries

And has come past the stars of the Lion

To point us the path to the skies

To the Lethean peace of the skies

Come up, in despite of the Lion

To shine on us with her bright eyes

Come up through the lair of the Lion

With love in her luminous eyes

But psyche, uplifting her finger

Said: "Sadly, this star I mistrust

Her pallor I strangely mistrust

Oh, hasten! oh, let us not linger!

Oh, fly! let us fly! for we must"

In terror she spoke, letting sink her

Wings until they trailed in the dust

In agony sobbed, letting sink her

Plumes till they trailed in the dust

Till they sorrowfully trailed in the dust

I replied: "This is nothing but dreaming

Let us on by the tremulous light!

Let us bathe in this crystalline light!

It's sibyllic splendor is beaming

With hope and in beauty to-night!

Ah, we safely may trust to it's gleaming

And be sure it will lead us aright

We safely may trust to a gleaming

That cannot but guide us aright

Since it flickers up to heaven through the night"

Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her

And tempted her out of her gloom

And conquered her scruples and gloom

And we passed to the end of the cista

But were stopped by the door of a tomb

By the door of a legended tomb

And I said: "What is written, sweet sister

On the door of this legended tomb?

She replied: "Ulalume! Ulalume!

'Tis the vault of thy lost Ulalume!"

Then my heart it grew ashen and sober

As the leaves that were crisped and sere

As the leaaves that were withereing and sere

And I cried: "It was surely October

On this very night of last year

That I journeyed, I journeyed down here

That I brought a dread burden down here

Of this night of all nights in the year

Ah, what demon has tempted me here?

Well I know, now, this dim lake of Auber

This misty mid region of Weir

Well I know, now, this dank tarn of Auber

This ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir."

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` OZARK MELODY`

Well the aliens are comming

They're comming while I'm strummin'

They fill me up with such a sense of pride

When the aliens do take me

I hope that they will let me

Bring my sister for my bride.

The space men with skin of gray

Took my baby child away

Now they say they want a second date

I'm really kind of flattered

Though I know it doesn't matter

Just think of it as interstellar rape.

The aliens will help me

I know that they can lift me

Lift me out of earth's velocity

The aliens have shown me

In their space craft as they hold me

Their space-age ozark moonshine recipe.

In the kitchen I've gone wild

With spices hot and mild

Yes, I'm the planet's new age julia child.

I'm cookin' up a phesent

A ten-pound frisky phesant

They'll stuff it like they stuffed me - with a smile.

The aliens are recruiting

Over hill and dale they're lootin'

For kins and cows and even chickens, too.

They took my cousin Billy

Now he's more than silly

I wish they'd take my auntie Mary Lou.

Now the aliens don't like me

'Cause I guess I tried to bite 'em

It's just my way of being kind of close

They threw me in a pasture

Now I'm aging faster

Faster than a free-range country roast.

Well the aliens are coming

They're coming while I'm strummin'

They fill me up with such a sense of pride

When the aliens do take me

I hope that they will let me

Bring my little sister for my bride.

MUSIC BY - FREDERICK REED and JEFF BUCKLEY. LYRICS BY - JOE TRIPICIAN.(1997)

*Jeff and Fred strummed mandolin and guitar and recorded the song in one four hour session.Jeff loved recording Ozark Melody, aliens and UFO's fascinated him and during the session he had a mischievious twinkle in his eye.*

This song is available to hear on the net.You will need shockwave.

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(Singles from the GRACE album)

` 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

This is our last embrace

Must I dream and always see your face

Why can't we overcome this wall

Baby, maybe it is just because I didn't know you at all

Kiss me

Please, kiss me

But kiss me out of desire

Babe, and not consolation

You know, it makes me so angry

'Cause 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"

And 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"

Well, the bells out in the church tower chime

Burning clues into this heart of mine

Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and the memory

Of her sighs that, 'it's over...it's over..."

WRITTEN BY...Jeff Buckley

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`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 'til the moon got full like a plate

The wind blew an invocation

And I fell asleep at the gate

...And I never stepped on the crack's cause

I thought I'd lose my mother

...And I couldn't awake from the nightmare

That sucked me in and pulled me under

Pulled me under

Oh That ws so real

I love you

But I'm afraid to love you

I love you

But I'm afraid to love you...

WRITTEN BY...Jeff Buckley and M. Tighe.

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` GRACE`

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 to die

My fading voice sings of love

But she cries to the clicking of time

Of time

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 go 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 ...

And I feel them drown my name

So easy to know and forget with this kiss

I'm not afraid to go

But it goes so slow

WRITTEN BY - Jeff Buckley and Gary Lucas. ______________________________________________________ ~ g r a c e ~ THE ALBUM

INSTRUMENTS - - - BASS- Mick Grondahl DRUMS/PERCUSSION - Matt Johnson ... Michael Tighe *guitar - SO REAL ... Gary Lucas *guitar - MOJO PIN and GRACE ...Loris Holland * organ - LOVER YOU SHOULD HAVE COME OVER ...MISHA MASUD - tabla - DREAM BROTHER ...KARL BERGER - *string arrangements

JEFF BUCKLEY - - - - - - - voice - guitars - harmonium - organ - dulcimer -additional tabla on 'Dream Brother'.

(Born Eunice Wayman, February 21st, 1933 - Tryon, South Carolina)

One of her albums - 'The Rising Sun Collection"

NINA SIMONE UK Show review, July 1999

LILAC WINE (James Shelton)

I lost myself on a cool damp night

Gave myself in that misty light

Was hypnotized by a strange delight

Under a lilac tree

I made wine from the lilac tree

Put my heart in it's 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 I brings me back 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 comming 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....

THE OTHER WOMAN - also a Nina Simone cover that Jeff Buckley sang on the Meltdown Festival.

BOB DYLAN

NUSRAT FATEH ALI KHAN

GARY LUCAS/GODS AND MONSTERS

LED ZEPPELIN - Jeff was said to be heard singing 'Led Zeppelin's "A WHOLE LOTTA LOVE" in the Wolf River, Memphis....before he dissapeared/drowned, May 29th, 1997.

This section will beupdated very soon.

DUNCAN SHEIK website-flash/nonflash

Duncan Sheik wrote "A Body Goes Down" a song about Jeff Buckley. "I've been listening to him for a long time, and I just think he was the best singer in the world. His arrangements inspired me more than his playing. That was such a loss." - Duncan Sheik on Jeff Buckley(Guitar World Accoustic - No.29)

*Duncan Sheik's drummer, Matt Johnson was part of JB's band.

JUDE

MARTIN SEXTON

MARTIN SEXTON website

Duncan Sheik, Jude and Martin Sexton are featured in GUITAR WORLD ACCOUSTIC - no.29.

more to come on this section very soon.