Everybody Here Wants You

"Everybody Here Wants You"
Single by Jeff Buckley
from the album Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk
Released	May 1998
Format	CD
Recorded	1996
Genre	Soul R&B rock
Length	4:47
Label	Columbia
Producer(s)	Jeff Buckley Tom Verlaine
Jeff Buckley singles chronology
"Eternal Life" (1995) "Everybody Here Wants You" (1998) "Forget Her" (2004)
Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk track listing "The Sky Is a Landfill" (1) "Everybody Here Wants You" (2) "Opened Once" (3)

"Everybody Here Wants You" is the second track on the posthumous Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk album release by Jeff Buckley. It was written as a love song for Joan Wasser, his girlfriend at the time. In October 2011, NME placed it at number 88 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".^[1] Kylie Auldist recorded a cover version with The Bamboos for the album "Just Say" (TRUCD159) as did the French band MIG (vocalist: Djazia Satour) on their 2004 album Dhikrayat and Lewis Taylor on his 2000 album Lewis_II. The single was nominated for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance at 41st Annual Grammy Awards in 1999.

Track listing

1. "Everybody Here Wants You"
2. "Thousand Fold"
3. "Eternal Life" (Road Version)
4. "Hallelujah" (live from the Bataclan)
5. "Last Goodbye" (live from Sydney)

The Australian version includes an interactive component (the same as that featured on other countries' versions of Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk)

References

1. http://www.nme.com/list/150-best-tracks-of-the-past-15-years/248648/page/7

• Browne, David. Dream Brother: The Lives and Music of Jeff and Tim Buckley. HarperEntertainment. 2001, 2002.

External links

• Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics