![]() ![]() Toward the end of the song, Buckley starts a series of lines with the phrase “It’s never over,” with each successive line revealing just how bad he’s got it. Once the narrator has established how he is complicit in his own agony, he can reveal just how deep it goes. “And too old to just break free and run.” That earthly purgatory between the two extremes is a place of endless torment, but it’s presented here as a kind of rite of passage: “Sometimes a man must awake to find, really/ He has no one.” The song could have been just your typical lament from a lonely lover, but Buckley deepens the material by providing insight into the narrator’s psyche and how it prevents him from the blissful reunion he seeks. Buckley the singer knocks it out of the park, but Buckley the songwriter provided some juicy raw material. ![]() Even with a hint of grunge in the guitars, “Lover” is essentially a soul ballad, its intensity mounting from a low boil early to emotive eruptions at the end. He was somewhat underwhelmed by his own songwriting skills, yet there is evidence on Grace, particularly on the transcendently anguished “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over,” that Buckley was as adept at crafting words and melodies as he was at performing them. It’s also a quote that plays into the misconception, given momentum since his death by the popularity of his famously ethereal version of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” that Buckley was an interpreter first and foremost. That same year, Buckley released his brilliant debut studio album Grace, which, sadly, comprises a large portion of his musical legacy as a result of his death at the age of 30 in 1997. That quote comes from Jeff Buckley in a 1994 edition of Interview magazine.
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