Jeff Buckley - Opened Once (1997)

Lyrics:

I once was open, and one with a traveling heart.
I loved this sweet god
Just like the fiction rushing in your riverbed,
Arise like applause in my head
And in the half-light, where we both stand
This is the half-light, see me as I am
Just like the ocean, always in love with the moon
It's overflowing now, inside you
We fly right over the minds of so many in pain
We are the smile of light that brings the rain
In the half-light, where we both stand
In the half-light, you saw me as I am
I am a railroad track abandoned
With the sunset forgetting I ever happened
That I ever happened

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• Opened
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[gshunw]

My favorite part of the song:

"I am a railroad track abandoned

With the sunset

Forgetting

I ever happened

That I ever happened"

[WinXMillsy]

The best music to drink coffee and smoke too :)

[MrsOceanflower]

With regards to the lyrics, I see that someone commenting corrected "sweet God" to "sweet guy". Before I ever noticed it in the lyric sheet, I also thought it was "God", and I kinda still think that it is.....at least it is to me. Either way, this song is beyond beautiful. Just.......beautiful......

[nat00ben06]

It is strangely odd that he sings about water and the foreshadowing of his death so often. I wonder why? Ya know, I mean what's up? He was one of the greatest singers in the world. I mean damn, did he feel love or not?  Was he happy or not? I wish that I had known him and could have pal'd around with him and asked him these questions.

[gshunw]

@handsomerube Agreed. In so many of his songs it was like he was foreshadowing an early death. In the opening verse of Lover You Should've Come Over I always thought that the part where he sang about watching mourners at a funeral was like him watching over his own memorial after his death.

[handsomerube]

he had so many songs that mention rivers...strangely and sadly prophetic.

[nat00ben06]

@gshunw Yeah that is a good part, the whole friggin song is great. All I ever needed was Jeff Buckley!

[scotsblubabe]

@nat00ben06 i agree totally

[owenhunt]

This song is my melody as I ensconce at the side of a stream, pierced through dusk, and dark so heavy, it is better than any dream.

[deltalady91]

just like the ocean always in love with the moon

[Migas128]

@corpsehand1 it looks like a "d" at the end of the long verse...

oh well, "god or guy" , the song is awesome...perfect to wake up and look at her while she sleeps :)