Like many musicians or artists in general, Jeff Buckley's death seems almost prophesied by none other than Buckley himself. His song "Dream Brother," in which he repeatedly sings the line "asleep in the sand with the ocean washing over" is now a slightly more haunting melody than it was perhaps originally intended to be. According to Far Out Magazine, in the song, the angel of death is watching over the song's narrator as he drowns. The track now seems slightly unsettling to those who hear it and know of Buckley's tragic death.

However, "Dream Brother" isn't the only track from Buckley's LP that foreshadows the young singer's lamentable demise. In "Eternal Life," Buckley sings, "Eternal life is now on my trail / Got my red glitter coffin, man / just need one last nail." 

Maybe Jeff Buckley knew more about the end of his life than we'd like to think. Or maybe life does in fact imitate art. The lyrics of the songs he left behind certainly sound as though he had a gut feeling or two prior to his own death. Though, as with so many other musicians who predicted their own deaths, his admirers and those with itching curiosities will never know if he actually had a premonition or if it's just a coincidence that the singer died such a romantically rock 'n' roll death as drowning in the Mississippi River at a young age. Yet it stands to reason he may have had early death on his mind.

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