You could have been New Orleans You could have been New Orleans But you’ll just be Hollywood for the rest of your life You could have been New Orleans But you’ll just be Hollywood for the rest of your life I saw us drowning with our neck in a rope She was caught red-handed by the river of dope I guess it caught her fancy just to be by his side She had no answer when she tried to get high Turn to the prison of the camera’s strobe Fame is religion by the river of dope My brain is tired and my woman can cope It just don’t matter to the river of dope The door’s no longer open for my name on their breath So long I’ve waited for the coming of death Will I be united with my innocence gone Will I burn to cinders as the river rolls on Hmmm…river, we sleep in your mud. You give us poison, when we drink your blood I saw your woman with a seven-foot rope Hang your dirty laundry by the river of dope I watched your mother abandon her hope And she watched you drowning by the river of dope It felt so damn special to be damaged and free To have her hairs not feel you. Look in my eyes and you’ll see That I flow with the river, and I’m a slave to his song and I will drown forever where so many have gone Goodbye you people who have abandoned your hope Parade in early morning to the river of dope Hmm, yeah the river of dope
Jeez. The clock is so haunting. You can clearly see he loves the idea of time. He's actually singing to the clicking of time in this song. Maybe it's a follow up to grace? Maybe it's precursor? I wish I can ask him.
Truly sounded like he was crying at the end of this song, not long after saying "goodbye all you people". He just didn't want to be here anymore and we are lucky for the brief time we had him.
I think it’s an important song. I wish it was put on Sketches. It’s raw, visceral, tragic. Why shouldn’t songs and lyrics go here -- to dope causing abandoned hope, death? Jeff sings it perfectly and in the perfect style. RIP :)
Jesse Jimenez he also covered I know it’s over where he sang “Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head. See, the sea wants to take me,” really heartbreaking
So painful to hear him sing like this, but the truth is usually hard to hear. RIP Jeff. I'm convinced you knew your fate, but you were gracious enough to share your soul with the world before you left.
I can't believe he wrote a song like this and then died of drowning
You could have been New Orleans
You could have been New Orleans
But you’ll just be Hollywood for the rest of your life
You could have been New Orleans
But you’ll just be Hollywood for the rest of your life
I saw us drowning with our neck in a rope
She was caught red-handed by the river of dope
I guess it caught her fancy just to be by his side
She had no answer when she tried to get high
Turn to the prison of the camera’s strobe
Fame is religion by the river of dope
My brain is tired and my woman can cope
It just don’t matter to the river of dope
The door’s no longer open for my name on their breath
So long I’ve waited for the coming of death
Will I be united with my innocence gone
Will I burn to cinders as the river rolls on
Hmmm…river, we sleep in your mud.
You give us poison, when we drink your blood
I saw your woman with a seven-foot rope
Hang your dirty laundry by the river of dope
I watched your mother abandon her hope
And she watched you drowning by the river of dope
It felt so damn special to be damaged and free
To have her hairs not feel you. Look in my eyes and you’ll see
That I flow with the river, and I’m a slave to his song
and I will drown forever where so many have gone
Goodbye you people who have abandoned your hope
Parade in early morning to the river of dope
Hmm, yeah the river of dope
Jeez. The clock is so haunting. You can clearly see he loves the idea of time. He's actually singing to the clicking of time in this song. Maybe it's a follow up to grace? Maybe it's precursor? I wish I can ask him.
What clock?
That’s when you don’t have a guitar at hand, so you just tap the rhythm.
Perfect picture.
don't want to talk no longer to people that don't like this
Perfect picture. Thanks for sharing.
Truly sounded like he was crying at the end of this song, not long after saying "goodbye all you people".
He just didn't want to be here anymore and we are lucky for the brief time we had him.
Honestly, just fuck off with your mythologising bullshit.
I think it’s an important song. I wish it was put on Sketches. It’s raw, visceral, tragic. Why shouldn’t songs and lyrics go here -- to dope causing abandoned hope, death? Jeff sings it perfectly and in the perfect style. RIP :)
can´t describe these on words.
not the only song he sang about drowning.
grace- which is about dying
"I hear them drown my name"
Nightmares by the Sea aswell
Jesse Jimenez he also covered I know it’s over where he sang “Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head. See, the sea wants to take me,” really heartbreaking
seems like he had this cosmic knowledge about his death
"I can feel your time crawling
To a slow end
I can feel my time crawling
To a slow end.."
"
Asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over"
So painful to hear him sing like this, but the truth is usually hard to hear. RIP Jeff. I'm convinced you knew your fate, but you were gracious enough to share your soul with the world before you left.
This Orpheus, a slave to the song of Neptune. He was ready to leave "Paradise Rock", so hard to just let him go.
oh Jeff, it's so boring here on Earth
I believe there is no other one. Its the only one I ever heard and knew. Thanks to share it
thank you so much, thank you for sharing
Thank you for sharing it. I thank you
absolutely haunting… and i am enraptured
Oh my. Thank you.
He sings about rivers a lot. 🙁
I sort of feellike this is about Layne Staley and hos girlfriend who passed 96' its just me I know but its what I associate it with
interesting care to explain what exactly makes u think that?
Gem.
turn to the prison of the camera’s strobe, fame is religion by the river of dope
Yowza. For some reason I couldn't stop thinking of Courtney Love during the first half.
This is the only version I know of, well I'm pretty sure...
33rd🤳🏽
Jeff Buckley why? You channeled Nina Simone here.
She is the Gold standard of sonecence
Is Jeff the author if the lyrics? It doesnt sounds like his
yeah he is.