Jeff Buckley: Song Analysis

The goodness of this song is all the meaning and themes that it conveys and how we all can relate to better ourselves. We do anything for the ones we love doing right and wrong for them, which inspires a majority of us to love those closest to us even more. You will let the ones you love do whatever they want to you because your love for them is so powerful that you would never let them go. This song conveys how love went stale because they didn’t truly love each other. They only used you for their own benefit and to state this the lyrics uses imagery to express this meaning throughout the song. Example “Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya She tied you to her kitchen chair And she broke your throne and she cut your hair”(Jeff Buckley). This song makes us want to love those around us as much as we can so our love never goes stale. The truth of this song shows the common things as humans, we go through , while we progress through life. We’re human, we love those closest, especially family, we lose those closest to us which inevitably leads to our love for them to …show more content…
Rufus Wainwright on the piano makes the beat very catchy and makes you feel the emotion that the artist is going through. The lyrics show how Jeff Buckley truly feels about the girl he talks about , and how it can relate to our own life making the song even better in its beauty. The imagery helps us understand it better because it puts a picture in our head of what he's comparing his love with. Example “Well your faith was strong but you needed proof You saw her bathing on the roof Her beauty and the moonlight overthrew ya She tied you to her kitchen chair And she broke your throne and she cut your hair” (Jeff Buckley).This one of the examples of how singers convey goodness, truth, and beauty throughout a