In Buckley's words, "It's about not feeling so bad about your own mortality when you have true love. Jeff wrote lyrics inspired by his saying goodbye to his girlfriend at the airport on a rainy day, and the vocal melody came naturally. The song was based on an instrumental song called "Rise Up to Be" written by Buckley's collaborator, Gary Lucas.
It keeps you from destroying things too foolishly. It keeps you from reaching for the gun too quickly. That's a quality I admire very greatly. That's the way art really is." Later in the interview, Buckley concluded by saying, "grace is what matters, in anything, especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death about people, that's what matters. If you've spent a night making love, you know exactly what it means to strip your ego, down, where you are there, expressing yourself, wordlessly, collaborating on a moment that has an energy about it that is replenishing or even completely inspirational in a way that you could never imagine. I always describe it as not fearing anything, anyone, any man, any woman, any war, any gun, any sling or arrow aimed at your heart by other people because there is somebody, finally, who loves you for real, and that you can achieve a real state of grace through somebody else's love in you." He added, "everybody knows what it's like to create an artistic moment so-called artistic moment, because it's really just heightened humanism just a heightened human language.
Hard to imagine now that when Grace appeared in 1994 it was. Jeff Buckleys iconic album Grace was released on August 23, 1994.
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