Jeff Buckley - The sky is a landfill
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Here is my interpretation of this great song... Hope this will be useful to somebody :o)
Intro (tuning is drop-D throughout song)
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D7 (Chords are fingerpicked)
Circle around the park
Emadd9 Joining hands in silence
D7 Bmadd13- G/B
Watch the evil black the sky
The D7storm has ripped the shelter
Of ilEmadd9lusion from our brow
B5 G#5 Gmaj7(II)
This power is no mystery to us now.
Dmaj7 Leave your Dspirit Dsus2genocide
Gmaj7 The cancer you Gwon’t rGmaj7emove
Dmaj7 We cast our Dfuneral rose insGmaj7ide
And bury the Gneed to Gmaj7prove
D Gmaj7 (Riff 1)
Our mutilation is to gain from the system
Riff 1:
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Emadd9 (etc…)
Ooh, turn your head away
From the screen, oh people
It will tell you nothing more
Don’t suck the milk of flaccid Bill K.
Public’s empty promise
To the people that the public can ignore
This way of life is so devised
To snuff out the mind that moves
Moving with grace the men despise
And women have learned to lose
Throw off your shame or be
a slave to the system
I see you take another drag
One more lost soul to raise your flag
The sky is a landfill
I see you take another drag
Let’s see you take another drag
You like to Gdance to the rolling
F#Head of the adulteress
You sing in A5praise of suicide E5 D5
G We know you’re useless
Like F#cops at the scene of the A5crime E5 D5
With your sGteroids and your feedbag
And your stable and your Bb5trainer
B(b9) G#5 G
I got a mail bomb for you Mister Strong Arm.
D7 Throw out the stones from all the cemetery homes
Bmadd13- G/B etc.
For the violence of a nation gone by
Or the politics of weakness
And the garbage dump of souls
That will now black the sky
Their yellow haze and crowds of eyes
Will plug up the mind that moves
Moving with grace the men despise
And women have learned to lose
We’ll share our bodies
In disdain for the system
Oh, I see you take another drag
One nation bends to kiss the hag
The sky is a landfill
I see you take another drag
I see you take another drag
I have no fear of this machine!
Chords Used:
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D7: xx0212
Emadd9: xx2002
Bmadd13-: x20032
G/B: x20033
B5: 999xxx
G#5: 666xxx
Gmaj7(II): 555777
Dmaj7: 000222
D: 000232
Dsus2: 000230
Gmaj7: 020032
G: 020033
G: 5554xx
F#: 4443xx
A5: 777xxx
E5: 222xxx
D5: 000xxx
Bb5: 8887xx
B(b9): x24x66
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MPN, 2008