The Sky Is A Landfill

by Jeff Buckley

Chords

4.7 (11)

Tuning: E A D G B E

Version:

v1 v2

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Capo

None

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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)
|------x--2--0-----0--------0-|-6-6----------------|
|------x--1--0-----0--------0-|-6-6----------------|
|---------------2-----2--0----|-----------------xx-|
|--0--------------------------|-4-4---6-6-0-5---xx-|
|--0--------------------------|-2-2---6-6-0-5---xx-|
|--0--------------------------|-------6-6-0-5---xx-|

D7 (Chords are fingerpicked)

Circle around the park

Joining hands in silence

Watch the evil black the sky

The

storm has ripped the shelter

Of il

lusion from our brow

This

power is no

mystery to us now.

Leave your

spirit

genocide

The cancer you

won&rsquo

;t remove

We cast our

funeral rose ins

ide

And bury the

need to

prove

D Gmaj7 (Riff 1)

Our mutilation is to gain from the system

Riff 1:
|------------------------|
|------------------------|
|----5----(2)-4/55555----|
|-0-----4--0-----------4-|
|-0--3--0--0--2/33333--0-|
|-0--0--0--0--0-00000--0-|

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

dance to the rolling

Head of the adulteress

You sing in

praise of suicide

We know you’re useless

cops at the scene of the

crime

With your s

teroids and your feedbag

And your stable and your

trainer

I got a mail bomb for

you Mister Strong

Arm.

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 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

Dmaj7: 000222

D: 000232

Dsus2: 000230

Gmaj7: 020032

G: 020033

F#: 4443xx

A5: 777xxx

E5: 222xxx

D5: 000xxx

Bb5: 8887xx

B(b9): x24x66

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MPN, 2008