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Jeff Buckley – Opened Once Lyrics	20 years ago
The singer is mourning the loss of his simplicity, his innocence and his youth, "I once was open, a one with a travelling heart/ I loved this sweet guy", and he's trying to explain it to another person, "see me as I am."

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Jeff Buckley – Satisfied Mind Lyrics	20 years ago
This song is an old country standard, not a Jeff Buckley tune. It is poignant to listen, though, in light of his passing.

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Jeff Buckley – Morning Theft Lyrics

20 years ago

I think this song is about having a really good friend, and mixing up your feelings of friendship with love, and it seems like the protagonist has an unsuccessful romantic relationship with a girl who used to just be a good friend of his. Then he realises that with the girl as his girlfriend, he cannot have her as his old friend, and he's full of regret. "I miss my beautiful friend/I had to send it away to bring her back again" - he had to break off the relationship in order to save the friendship. Other elements of the lyrics point to their differences, "You're a window, I'm a knife".

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Counting Crows – Miami Lyrics

20 years ago

It's not "Daylight aiming", it's Daylight, Amy", being that the song refers to a girl called Amy, and there is the repetetive pun on the word 'Miami' which could also be "My Amy". Having said that, Divican is right - he's waiting for this girl to arrive on a flight, and he's thinking of the times they fought, and how they don't really suit eachother, but he ends up thinking, "Hell, let's have one more amazing time together in New Orleans", with the sad, but liberating line: "Summer's gone and so are we". There's time for one last blowout together before saying a final goodbye. "Let's go shut it down".

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Counting Crows – Miller's Angels Lyrics

20 years ago

The bulk of the song - the first verses and everything - were written for the film Miller's Crossing, directed by Sean Penn (hence the dedication "for Sean and me" in the album notes). But Duritz added the coda after the song was rejected by the movie producers. So, the bit "Can't you hear me?" is a personal complaint, very typical of Duritz at this period in his career, saying simply "I hate being famous, I can't go outside, I'm a nervous wreck, leave me alone!". So, the first 2/3 of the song relate to the movie, and the final bit is Duritz.

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Counting Crows – August and Everything After (Live 12/03 Version) Lyrics

20 years ago

Considering when this song was written, it seems to be primarily about Duritz's yearning for some degree of recognition in his early years as a struggling songwriter. However, this being the only released version of the song, some of the lyrics have changed, and it's about the irony of the original song, which he is beginning to realise as an older, wiser, famous songwriter. So, he acheived all that he was yearning for in the original song, but it turned out to be a sour version of what he had dreamed about. Duritz illustrates the same point with more elegance in Mr Jones, but this is still a clever and rather bitter performance.

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