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"Eternal Life" is a song composed by Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley

Jeffrey Scott Buckley , raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician....
 and is track #9 on his album Grace
Grace (album)

Grace is the only complete studio album by Jeff Buckley, released on August 23, 1994 . The album is named after the title track, "Grace ," co-written by Buckley and Gary Lucas....
. It also has a video. It is believed to have been influenced by a long-time love for Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
's music and a wish to emulate them in this song. "Eternal Life" can also be found on his 1993 EP Live at Sin-é
Live at Sin-é

Live at Sin-? is a live album Extended play by Jeff Buckley. The four-song EP was Buckley's first commercial recording and was released in December 1993 on Columbia Records....
.

Captured on the Live at Sin-é
Live at Sin-é

Live at Sin-? is a live album Extended play by Jeff Buckley. The four-song EP was Buckley's first commercial recording and was released in December 1993 on Columbia Records....
 release, is an explanation as to the meaning of this song:

"This is a song about...its an angry song.






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"Eternal Life" is a song composed by Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley

Jeffrey Scott Buckley , raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician....
 and is track #9 on his album Grace
Grace (album)

Grace is the only complete studio album by Jeff Buckley, released on August 23, 1994 . The album is named after the title track, "Grace ," co-written by Buckley and Gary Lucas....
. It also has a video. It is believed to have been influenced by a long-time love for Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin were an English rock music band formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page , Robert Plant , John Paul Jones and John Bonham . With their heavy, guitar-driven sound, Led Zeppelin are regarded as one of the first heavy metal music bands....
's music and a wish to emulate them in this song. "Eternal Life" can also be found on his 1993 EP Live at Sin-é
Live at Sin-é

Live at Sin-? is a live album Extended play by Jeff Buckley. The four-song EP was Buckley's first commercial recording and was released in December 1993 on Columbia Records....
.

Captured on the Live at Sin-é
Live at Sin-é

Live at Sin-? is a live album Extended play by Jeff Buckley. The four-song EP was Buckley's first commercial recording and was released in December 1993 on Columbia Records....
 release, is an explanation as to the meaning of this song:

"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..."

In Jeff's own words, " Eternal Life was inspired by anger over "the man that shot Martin Luther King, World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, slaughter in Guyana
Guyana

Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana and previously known as British Guiana, is the only state of the Commonwealth of Nations on mainland South America....
 and the Manson murders."

Track listing

  1. "Eternal Life"
  2. "Eternal Life" (road version)
  3. "Last Goodbye" (live and acoustic in Japan)
  4. "Lover, You Should've Come Over" (live and acoustic in Japan)