Give The Smiths one thing, 'I Know It's Over' not only happens to have that quality of a song to be a natural lullaby, but depending on the artist that intends to cover that particular song later...can completely transform that melancholy that keeps on aching. So on February 11th, a music video was released of the prevously unreleased track that Jeff Buckley covered on the 'You and I' album that will be now his newest album. Although Jeff Buckley has been gone since 1997...that gap in music is screechingly loud to the point that silence somehow can not fathom why...someone that important could or would still be gone.
'I Know It's Over' has all the nooks and crannies while The Smiths intend the ballad to be about a man reflecting on his life or (his life flashing before his eyes) as that man lies dying. Somehow Buckley's version pushes in a knife that mimics his own life. The music video shows a young boy with his mother that shows a bleak approach to this small household. As the young boy crawls into his mother bed and then the mother placing the boy back in his own bed. The mother sits outside his bedroom and seemingly to disappear from various scenes.
2016 may be the year everyone comse to remember and learn about Jeff Buckley. A new generation may come to appreciate who Buckley was a musician and the emotion tied to each song he covered or wrote. Either way, Buckley still adjusts our own emotions by having the listener re-evaluate and remember our own lives suddenly rushing by.
