Jeff Buckley - 4) Lilac Wine

Lilac Wine is Buckley's tribute to Nina Simone. She was one of his biggest influences and Grace would have felt lacking without a Simone cover. The song recounts visiting a lilac tree and making wine from it. As the song goes on the writer gets more and more drunk off the wine, exposing more of himself in the lyrics as the song progresses due to lack of inhibitions.

In typical Buckley fashion the melody and vocals are amazing. It has little to no accompaniment beyond some light string and guitar.