Jeff Buckley è morto..
Jeff Buckley aveva la voce di un angelo, suo padre probabilmente quella di Dio..
Chi può dire se Dio prima e Gesù dopo siano di nuovo scesi sulla terra sotto forma di cantautori dalle strabilianti doti per comunicare il loro messaggio all'uomo e redimerlo, questa volta tramite la musica?
No, Dio non avrebbe mai fatto uso di eroina (non ci scommetterei in quegli anni però) e Gesù avrebbe saputo camminare sulle acque invece di sprofondare nel tetro baratro di un fiume..
Eppure su Gesù e Jeff Buckley stiamo speculando alla stessa maniera (solo che la speculazione sul mito di Cristo dura da più di duemila anni: Gesù ha resuscitato quello, Gesù ha moltiplicato questo, Gesù ha ridato la vista, Gesù cammina sulle acque, Gesù è il figlio di Dio.. Chi può eguagliarlo è forse Chuck Norris, ma Gesù sicuramente l'avrebbe battuto in un incontro di karatè).
Jeff Buckley ha cantato, purtroppo, pochissimi pezzi usciti dalla sua mente, racchiusi in due soli album, uno di una bellezza disarmante "Grace", e l'altro, postumo alla sua morte "Sketches For My Sweetheart the Drunk", alla cui stesura ha partecipato anche Chris Cornell.
Con così poco materiale a disposizione è lecito aspettarsi che il mito di quest'uomo non si possa conservare a lungo, se non ristampando all'infinito i lavori citati in precedenza.
Invece no..
Alla casa discografica va estremamente di culo, perché il buon Jeff Buckley ha materiale live pari all'intera carriera dei Led Zeppelin e così giù a stampare raccolte di esibizioni tenute un po' qua, un po' là..
E i soldi arrivano.. A palate..
Per completare la discografia live di Buckley, manca solo la registrazione dei suoi peti mentre sta evacuando e quella del suo russare mentre dorme, ma credo che qualcuno ci stia già pensando.
Poi, quando, forse, non è rimasto più niente da pubblicare, arriva questa raccolta, che non saprei come definire:
- Operazione commerciale? Forse sì..
- Testamento definitivo? Può darsi, visto che qui è racchiuso il meglio della carriera di Jeff: "Mojo Pin", "Grace", "Lover, You Should've Come Over", "Last Goodbye", "Eternal Life", "Dream Brother", "So Real", "Hallelujah", "Forget her", "The Sky Is A Landfill", "Everybody Here Wants You", "Vancouver", "I Know It's Over", "Je n'en connais pas la fin".
- Puttanata colossale? No, in fondo si tratta della musica di Buckley..
- Peggior operazione di artwork mai vista? Beh, anche se compare la faccia di Jeff in copertina (mica era un brutto vedere no?), l'orribile confezione in cartone e la mancanza di materiale aggiuntivo potrebbe darlo da pensare.
Bene, su questi pezzi è già stato detto di tutto e di più..
Se volete volare, piangere, commuovervi, sognare, restare increduli, fare l'amore sulle note di "Everybody Here Wants You", spaccare tutto con "Eternal Life", rinchiudervi in un religioso silenzio con "Hallelujah", oppure, semplicemente conoscere il mito di Jeff Buckley, comprate questa raccolta, in fondo costa 9 euro, non è molto.
Se avete già gli album, lasciate perdere, non c'è nulla di nuovo, a meno che, come il sottoscritto, non siate stati ammaliati dalla cometa di questo piccolo, ma grandissimo personaggio, da voler avere tutto quello che lo riguardi: testi, libri, album, raccolte, peti e rumori vari.
Non mi sento di metterti 1, caro Jeff, non lo farei mai, infatti questo disco per me è sempre oltre la sufficienza.
Metto 1 a chi l'ha pubblicato e a chi non impiega il ricavato di tutte le uscite postume per cause nobili, ma solamente per speculare e guadagnare sulla memoria di una delle persone più sensibili e umili che abbiano mai fatto musica.
Jeff R.I.P.
Elenco tracce testi e samples
01 Last Goodbye (04:36)
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 your phone to call?
Was there a voice unkind in the back of your mind saying
"Maybe... you didn't know him at all"
You didn't know him at all
You didn't know
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
Offer signs that it's over
It's over
02 Lover, You Should've Come Over (06:42)
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
And 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... And I'll burn
Will I ever see your sweet return, oh, or will I ever learn
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 wont 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 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
Maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong
Oh... Lover, you should've come over... 'Cause it's not too late...
03 Forget Her (05:10)
While this town is busy sleeping
All the noise died away
I walk the streets to stop my weeping
But she'll never change her ways
Don't fool yourself
She was heartache from the moment that you met her
My heart feels so still
As i try to find the will to forget her somehow
Oh i think i've forgotten her now
Her love is a rose pale and dying
Dropping her petals in pain unknown
All full of wine the world before her
But sober with no place to go
Don't fool yourself
She was heartache from the moment that you met her
My heart is frozen still
As i try to find the will to forget her somehow
She's somewhere out there now
Oh my tears fall down as i tried to forget
Her love was a joke from the day that we met
All of the words all of her men
All of my pain when i think back to when
Remember her hair as it shone in the sun
smell of the bed when i knew what she'd done
Tell yourself over and over you wont ever need her again
Don't fool yourself
She was heartache from the moment that you met her
Oh my heart is frozen still
As i try to find the will to forget her somehow
She's out there somewhere now
Oh
She was heartache from the day that i first met her
My heart is frozen still
As i try to find the will to forget you somehow
'Cause i know you're somewhere out there right now
07 Everybody Here Wants You (04:45)
Twenty-nine pearls in your kiss
A singing smile
Coffee smell and lilac skin
Your flame in me
Twenty-nine pearls in your kiss
A singing smile
Coffee smell and lilac skin
Your flame in me
Im only here for this moment
I know everybody here wants you
I know everybody here thinks he needs you
Ill be waiting right here just to show you
How our love will blow it all away
Hmm, such a thing of wonder in this crowd
Im a stranger in this town
Youre free with me
And our eyes locked in downcast love
I sit here proud
Even now youre undressed in your dreams with me
Oh, Im only here for this moment
I know everybody here wants you
I know everybody here thinks he needs you
Ill be waiting right here just to show you
How our love will blow it all away
I know the tears we cried
Have dried on yesterday
The sea of fools has parted for us
Theres nothing in our way
My love
Dont you see, dont you see?
Youre just the torch to put the flame to all our guilt and shame
And Ill rise like an ember in your name
I know i, I know i
I know everybody here wants you
I know everybody here thinks he needs you
Ill be waiting right here just to show you
Oh let me show you
That love can rise, rise just like embers
Love can taste like the wine of the ages, oh babe,
And I know they all looks so good from a distance
But I tell you Im the one
I know everybody here, well, thinks he needs you
Think he needs you
And Ill be waiting right here just to show you.
10 Vancouver (03:10)
lady, all the troubles are my fright, i disgust you.
feel the power. you cut the truth into you.
why? did you think i did not on this rely?
i could kiss you, with lines of escape in my mouth.
please let me bring back these gifts of mine to the woman.
stars shined on my back as I slept and knew you.
you didn't leave it all.
you made an even call.
my belly released the stars and tears between the scars.
ooooh.
below this we'll end here until the end of time
beyond the moment that ends our bondage
i am your failed husband contender,
i'm your loan shark of bliss.
this dream you've ridden on turns your world to explosions
i need to be alone to heal this bleeding stone.
now, smell the rain of london, it still insists
that we beg for our purity
as if we are pure in the reign of our contentment
as if i can think of this no more.
12 Grace (05:22)
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
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
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
Wait in the fire
Wait in the fire
Wait in the fire
Wait in the fire
Wait in the fire
Wait in the fire
13 Hallelujah (06:55)
Well, I heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do ya
Well, it goes like this: the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall and the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Well, your faith was strong, but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya
And she tied you to her kitchen chair
And she broke your throne and she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Well, baby, I've been here before
I've seen this room and I've walked this floor
You know, I used to live alone before I knew ya
And I've seen your flag on the marble arch
And love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Well, there was a time when you let me know
What's really going on below
But now you never show that to me, do ya
But remember when I moved in you
And the holy dove was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Well, maybe there is a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew ya
And it's not a cry that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah
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