Jeff Buckley – Eternal Life Lyrics

“‘Eternal Life’ was inspired by anger over "the man that shot Martin Luther King, World War II, slaughter in Guyana and the Manson murders.” — Jeff Buckley

“This is a song about…its an angry song. Life’s too short and too complicated for people behind desks and people behind masks to be ruining other people’s lives, initiating force against other people’s lives on the basis of their income, their color, their class, their religious beliefs, their whatever…"
– Jeff Buckley