Jeff Buckley - Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk
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Jeff Buckley - Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk: Wikipedia Album Entry
Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk is a collection of polished studio tracks and four-track demos recorded by Jeff Buckley. Being dissatisfied with material recorded in the summer of 1996 and early in 1997, Buckley worked on many demos to reach the sound he was hoping to achieve. To be titled My Sweetheart, the Drunk, the album was never finished, as the rest of the band were traveling to meet Buckley at the time of his death. It was released posthumously on 26 May 1998 (see 1998 in music). Despite its unfinished state, the album garnered many positive reviews; The Onion's AV Club called it "frustratingly incomplete, but mostly remarkable". The album's original sessions were produced by Television frontman Tom Verlaine.
"My Sweetheart the Drunk" was the working title that Jeff Buckley was using while writing and recording the album; the title was intended by his mother and sole heir of his estate, Mary Guibert, to be rendered with parentheses, as Sketches (for My Sweetheart the Drunk), because Jeff's work was not finished, and therefore was just an outline, or "sketch", of what would have been released, had Jeff been able to complete this project.
International (non-US) editions of Disc 2 include the bonus track "Gunshot Glitter" (Jeff Buckley) as Track 7 for a total of 21 tracks. The Japanese edition of Disc 2 also includes the bonus track "Thousand Fold" (Jeff Buckley) as Track 11 for a total of 22 tracks.
* Swedish Gothic Rock band Katatonia recorded a cover of "Nightmares by the Sea", which appeared on the "Tonight's Decision" album and then later on "The Black Sessions" compilation.
* The USA original series The Dead Zone (based on the Stephen King novel of the same name) uses "New Year's Prayer" as its theme song.
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Jeff Buckley - Sketches For My Sweetheart The Drunk Lyrics
Jeff Buckley - The Sky Is A Landfill Lyrics
Circle around the park
Joining hands in silence
Watch the evil black the sky
The storm has ripped the shelter
Jeff Buckley - I Know We Could Be So Happy, Baby (if We Wanted To Be) Lyrics
There's no easy answer
None to blame or forgive
Two cripples dancing
To the end we live
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Jeff Buckley - Murder Suicide Meteor Slave Lyrics
Would you like to meet the villain somewhere
Underneath the skull of a moon
Fire burned his eyes out
'Cause his chains are too long for you
Jeff Buckley - Back In N.y.c. Lyrics
I see faces and traces of home
Back in New York city
So you think I'm a tough kid?
Jeff Buckley - Gunshot Glitter Lyrics
don't you wanna let go of your heart or you the beds of bliss
fortune makes fools of us all my dear materialista,
silence was insane, the parting was mutual
don't' you want the rocket to rock out? there's a room for us both to fly.
Jeff Buckley - Demon John Lyrics
Say farewell, g'night, sonny Jim
In your defenseless, winning smile
What do you hope to win?
And bliss face down, defended
Jeff Buckley - Your Flesh Is So Nice Lyrics
I want to tell you a story
About a little cute
She's ass-slappin' pretty
And voluptuous fingers
Jeff Buckley - Jewel Box Lyrics
I know you are a woman by the way you burn below
I'll tell you secrets so good, you'll never tell a soul
Come closer, that bonfire holds his life like stones
My years, my life unknown
Jeff Buckley - Thousand Fold Lyrics
I have no desire to make contact
With all the thought of no, no
I shiver now to think of how
This answer asked her, no
Jeff Buckley - Haven't You Heard? Lyrics
Your wish is my command
Have you heard this talk about eye contact?
Gonna be the downfall of this town
Jeff Buckley - You & I Lyrics
You and I
Ah, the calm below that poisoned the river wild
You and I
Tears that dry on a rude awakened child
Jeff Buckley - Everybody Here Wants You Lyrics
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
Jeff Buckley - Opened Once Lyrics
I once was open and one with a traveling heart
I loved this sweet God
And just like the fiction rushing in your riverbed
Arise like applause in my head
Jeff Buckley - Nightmares By The Sea Lyrics
Beware, the bottle thoughts of angry young men
Secret compartments hide all of the skeletons
Little girl wants to make her home with him
In the middle of the shore, she wonders
Jeff Buckley - Yard Of Blonde Girls Lyrics
Through the yard, through the yard of blonde girls
Through the river and the sea, gold sharks glittering
A tree of white breaks the earth
The streets where Lola played
Jeff Buckley - Witches' Rave Lyrics
You sound just like a scream, I don't know what you mean
Your witchcraft's all around me in your ragged pagan scene
You tell me all the ways around my garden that you like
I float just like a bubble heading for the spike
Jeff Buckley - New Year's Prayer Lyrics
Ooh, fall in light, fall in light, fall in light, fall in light
Feel no shame for what you are
Feel no shame for what you are
Jeff Buckley - Morning Theft Lyrics
Time takes care of the wound, so I can believe
You had so much to give, you thought I couldn't seek
Gifts for boot, heels to crush, promises deceived
I had to send it away to bring us back again
Jeff Buckley - Vancouver Lyrics
Lady, all the troubles are my fright, I disgust you
Feel the power, you cut the truth into you
Why do you think I'd hidden out on this rely?
I could kiss you, with lines of escape in my mouth
Jeff Buckley - Satisfied Mind Lyrics
How many times have you heard someone say
If I had money, I would do things my way
But little they know that it's so hard to find
One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind
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