Comments on: What Does It All Mean?: Jeff Buckley – “Lover You Should’ve Come Over”

By: Michael Barnes

Michael Barnes — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:41:55 +0000

Very interesting take Eunice, thanks so much for sharing it. Part of the reason I do these posts is because even when an artist tells us what a song is about, it doesn't fix the meaning in anyway, there's always another way to see it. My reading probably has to do with the experiences I was going through around the time I heard it and, as I mentioned, how soon Jeff departed just as his star was rising, but there are many different interpetations to be had.

By: Eunice

Eunice — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 16:52:22 +0000

Well, Jeff actually said the song was about someone who just didn't come… But besides that, I don't think it's necessary for the song to imply real death when a loss can be felt just as powerfully sad like someone dying. For me, those funeral mourners are just the writer seeing his own grief outside, only a metaphore. What I'm trying to say is that the feeling is the same and you can adapt it to a loss or a death, however you relate with the song (nevertheless, in my imagination I think Jeff was being left by someone he loved and that's it).
What a beautiful song and what an awesome artist.

By: Michael Barnes

Michael Barnes — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:34:12 +0000

Coincidentally, KCRW just recently archived a performance of Buckley's on Morning Becomes Eclectic back in 1994: http://www.kcrw.com/music/programs/mb/mb940728jef...