❀ “All Flowers” Diary: Sea Swelling in Love with the Moon
11/29/93
Bloom inside, my beautiful flower If you feel your blood moving under your skin Then let it kiss every inch of you Let the friction of its rushing through your riverbed Arise like applause in your breast And sparkle like kisses upon your belly Close your eyes and fly Stretch your legs and sing Because inside you the sea is swelling in love with the moon No such things as self defense or bondage Or regret from the past, the ocean only lives and creates and flows But always in love with the moon
Speak out to me My beautiful sparrow In the morning you fly over a city Of lunatics walking in pain and waiting for betrayal All you know is the wind The rhythm of the fragrance of the world Only, you can sing me awake Sing it to me with the smell of your back Sing it to me with the heat of your lips Kiss me where you want and the song is all I can hear Inside you the sea is swelling over Spilling over my head And I stay submerged Waiting for your rose to open to me And your song to sink into my skin
Jeff Buckley – His Own Voice (P.142)
Just like affection rushing in your riverbed
Arise like applause in my head
Just like the ocean, always in love with the moon
It's overflowing now, inside you
We fly right over the minds of so many in pain
We are the smile of light that brings the rain
(Opened Once)
Flower
Bloom inside, my beautiful flower
Jan 13, 1995 – Then Samantha saw Jeff, in his winter coat, with a flower in his lapel ... He wanted to see Liz Fraser in Twickenham.
Rose
Waiting for your rose to open to me
- love and a thousandfold rose for Buckley (Milk & Kisses liner note)
Willow
Speak out to me My beautiful sparrow
Close your eyes and fly / Stretch your legs and sing
willow sparrow (=Spanish sparrow): often seen in flocks.
- “when will you weep for me, sweet willow” (All Flowers In Time)
- “But tonight you're on my mind so... sweet willow” (Lover, You Should've Come Over from Live at Chicago 1995) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLHcHWDvgfQ&t=129s
- “Sing? I'd love to” (Flock of Soul)
Cockatoo Twins poster from Bojack Horseman
Morning
In the morning...sing me awake
- “Morning theft / Unpretender left / Ungrateful” (Morning Theft)
- “meet the sunrise through the window shining” (Flock of Soul)
Light
- He had been to England for a week over the new year, to visit Elizabeth Fraser, the singer with Cocteau Twins, whose voice, he told me, stopped him in his tracks. “It sounds like light,” he said.
- “Oooh, fall in light, fall in light, fall in light” (New Year's Prayer)
- “Cover me in sublime light” (Flock of Soul)
There ain't a star born that brightens More than you, you always should have known, I'll illuminate your question, Long time ago I'd died and gone (Thousand Fold)
Twinlights: [Geography] Navesink Lighthouse Station... the reflection in the night sky could be seen from seventy miles at sea.
- “Not long before the wisps of starlight” (Flock of Soul)
- “We come together / Making chance in the starlight” (Morning Theft)
- “And in the half-light where we both stand / This is the half-light, you see me as I am” (Opened Once)
Flood
Inside you the sea is swelling over Spilling over my head And I stay submerged
- “Your eyes and body brighten / Silent waters, deep”, “A heart that beats as / Both siphon and reservoir” (Morning Theft)
- Come feel the deep / It's love in a flood (Flock of Soul)
- The lips, the heart / Feel the flooding / Feel the fire / The heart, the soul / Illuminated, illuminated (Treasure Hiding)
Album: The Moon and the Melodies