We begin our 10 day review of the Jeff Buckley album 'Grace.' Rather then have his songs pop up in my daily selections, I decided to just review each song. The entire album is brilliant and each song deserves it at minimum.
Mojo Pin is the first track on the album and it opens up with silence. To the point you almost want to give your CD player a kick as you hit play but nothing is happening. Then you hear a whisper off in the distance. The faint whisper pulses and just as the sound gets a bit wider Buckley's gorgeous voice is birthed out of the whisper. The song goes at a steady pace and is a soothing, warm track. Buckley is trying to convey the emotions of heroin use. The warmth opens up towards the end of the song and leaves you with a crashing burst of energy. The ending is very Zeppelin-esque owing a debt to 'Kashmir'.
The lyrical content of the song deals with addiction and desire. Mojo Pin is a heroin reference. 'Black beauty I love you so'/'Wouldn't need no mojo pin to keep me satisfied'. Buckley did admit to trying heroin but the extent of it was never revealed. In his own words he said Mojo Pin was about a dream he had of a black woman shooting heroin between his toes.
Looking back this song could be commentary towards his own father as well. Buckley spent a fair amount of his adult life trying to figure his dad out. He fell for most of the pitfalls his dad did. Perhaps not out of a self destructive nature, just a curiosity where it went good and where it went bad for Tim. Little did Jeff know that he was going to inherit his father's lifespan.
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