Oh Buckley... The first time I heard "Hallelujah" I was 17 years old. It was around 5 or 6 am (whenever the sun rises in New York in June), and I was sitting by a lake, easing into a red wine hangover, and the song was coming out of a car parked nearby. I'm not sure if it was the lingering alcohol, the Marlboro Lights, or the fact that the car belonged to a boy I was way too ridiculously in love with at the time, but I remember feeling like my heart broke into a thousand pieces and would never be put back together quite the same again. And I'm pretty sure I've felt that way every time I've heard it since.
Sidenote: Do you ever go to Pacino's? Up around the corner from Eyre Square? There's a guy that used to do some solid slow covers of Jeff Buckley songs. Not that I don't like the rock out tracks, and all. But Jeff Buckley's just got such a haunting voice that he can pull off pretty much anything.
I really like "Lover, You Should Have Come Over." I mean, there's an allusion to Shakespeare's Richard III, so obviously it won me over. :) But even without my nerdy literary draw, it's a great song.
"Too young to hold on, and too old to just break free and run."
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Nice find. Those last couple minutes are intense.
Oh Buckley... The first time I heard "Hallelujah" I was 17 years old. It was around 5 or 6 am (whenever the sun rises in New York in June), and I was sitting by a lake, easing into a red wine hangover, and the song was coming out of a car parked nearby. I'm not sure if it was the lingering alcohol, the Marlboro Lights, or the fact that the car belonged to a boy I was way too ridiculously in love with at the time, but I remember feeling like my heart broke into a thousand pieces and would never be put back together quite the same again. And I'm pretty sure I've felt that way every time I've heard it since.
Sidenote: Do you ever go to Pacino's? Up around the corner from Eyre Square? There's a guy that used to do some solid slow covers of Jeff Buckley songs. Not that I don't like the rock out tracks, and all. But Jeff Buckley's just got such a haunting voice that he can pull off pretty much anything.
I really like "Lover, You Should Have Come Over." I mean, there's an allusion to Shakespeare's Richard III, so obviously it won me over. :) But even without my nerdy literary draw, it's a great song.
"Too young to hold on, and too old to just break free and run."
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