I’m only here for this moment

Momento que durou pouco. 30 anos, 2 discos em vida, outros 3 póstumos. Domingo (29/mai) completa 8 anos que Jeff Buckley pulou no Mississipi pra nunca mais voltar. Da turminha que apareceu, estourou e morreu nos anos 90, ele é o menos conhecido. Não precisou fugir da mídia como Kurt, nem das drogas como Layne. Mas fugia.

Do esquema comum. Da música fácil e da fama fácil. Dono de uma voz pra lá de versátil, guitarrista e compositor hábil e inteligente. Se fosse um blueseiro procurando a origem das tristezas nas águas do Mississipi, até daria pra entender aquele mergulho. Talvez ele quisesse só se divertir. Vai entender...

Jeff escreveu uma das mais belas baladas dos últimos 20 anos, "Everybody Here Wants You". Tá em "(Sketches for) My Sweetheart the Drunk", disco que ele gravava quando morreu.

Everybody Here Wants You

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

I’m only here for this moment

I know everybody here wants you
I know everybody here thinks he needs you
I’ll be waiting right here just to show you
How our love will blow it all away

Hmm, such a thing of wonder in this crowd
I’m a stranger in this town
You’re free with me
And our eyes locked in downcast love
I sit here proud
Even now you’re undressed in your dreams with me

Oh, I’m only here for this moment

I know everybody here wants you
I know everybody here thinks he needs you
I’ll be waiting right here just to show you
How our love will blow it all away

I know the tears we cried
Have dried on yesterday
The sea of fools has parted for us
There’s nothing in our way
My love

Don’t you see, don’t you see?
You’re just the torch to put the flame to all our guilt and shame
And I’ll rise like an ember in your name

I know i, I know i
I know everybody here wants you
I know everybody here thinks he needs you
I’ll be waiting right here just to show you
Oh let me show you
That love can rise, rise just like embers

Love can taste like the wine of the ages, oh babe,
And I know they all looks so good from a distance
But I tell you I’m the one

I know everybody here, well, thinks he needs you
Think he needs you
And I’ll be waiting right here just to show you.