Tribute Songs To Jeff (Lyrics)
Juliana Hatfield - Trying Not to
Think About It
(Please Do Not Disturb EP)
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
Aimee Mann - Just Like
Anyone (Bachelor No 2 LP)
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
Ron Sexsmith - In A
Flash (Whereabouts LP)
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
Duncan Sheik - A Body Goes
Down (Humming LP)
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...
Zita Swoon - Song For A Dead
Singer (I Paint Pictures On A Wedding Dress LP)
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
Heather Nova - Valley of
Sound (Siren LP)
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...
Ezio - Higher (Higher
LP)
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
Brenda Kahn - Side
Step the Bullet (Hunger LP)
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
The Frames - Neath the Beeches (Dance The Devil LP)
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.
Chris Cornell - Wave
Goodbye (Euphoria Morning LP)
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
Amy Fairchild - Jeff
Buckley Song (unreleased)
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
PJ Harvey -
Memphis (B-side, Good Fortune single
You're breathing in
my mouth I'll take it, I'll take it for you You wanna sing Then sing it
through me You've got something left to say
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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