It Took Seconds

Six minutes and three seconds: For some acts a six minute song is an epic, stretching their grasp of form and structure, an effort to be saved for when there’s a Major Statement to be made. In the context of Tim Buckley’s early career, “Buzzin’ Fly” is a tight, economical track, one of the shorter ones on Happy Sad and blessed with one of the man’s catchier choruses. Buckley used his long songs to capture rangy, wandering emotional states, pushing out into abstraction, but that’s somewhat tempered here: there’s a woman on his mind, decisions to be made, maybe even today.