Grace

So real is an hauntingly beautiful piece of music. The dissonant melody of the chords wrote by Gary Lucas is a flimsy, weightless sheet draped over you on a bitterly cold winter night. It still makes you feel cold and tired, but protects you from the ghosts of the night. Far away, Jeff Buckley wrote the lyrics in one night. So real is a silent wisper in the breeze of a broken record. So real is a nightmare of the melancholy regret about realizing too late. oh, that was so real.

Jeff wrote this song for a friend of his. His friend is about to become a father, but his fear of the future leads him to consider running away from the responsibility and leaving his partner and child behind. The singer-songwriter from Anaheim urges his dear friend not to become like the man who made him so old—the man who left behind his name… his father, Tim Buckley, who abandoned Jeff when he was still a child. Dream, brother, dream that you can do it—even if it hurts—but give it a try.