The Sky Is A Landfill chords by Jeff Buckley

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Key: D

🎸 Intro:

D
E Em Bm G#
G

🎸 Verse 1:
D          Em7
Circle around the park,
            D
joining hands in silence
       G
Watch the evil black the sky
   D
The storm has ripped the shelter
  Em
of illusion from our brow
 Bm  G#m     G
This power is no mystery to us now

🎸 Verse 2:
 D         G
Leave your spirit genocide,
             D
the cancer you won’t remove
             G
We cast our funeral rose inside
            D
bury the need to prove
           G        D
Our mutilation is to gain from the system

🎸 Verse 3:
               Em7
Turn your head away from the screen, oh people
D7          G
It will tell you nothing more
    D                Em
Don’t suck the milk of flaccid Bill K. Public’s empty promise
    Bm       G#m    G     D
To the people that the public can ignore

🎸 Pre-Chorus 1:
                G
This way of life is so devised
                D
to snuff out the mind that moves
               G
Moving with grace the men despise,
               A
and women have learned to lose
               G       C    Am Bm  D
Throw off your shame or be a slave to the system

🎸 Chorus 1:
            Bm  D
I see you take another drag
                  Bm
One more lost soul to raise your flag
  D        G  Bm   D
The sky is a landfill
            G  Bm  A
I see you take another drag
    B    Bm   A   B   Bm  A  Bm
Let’s see you take another drag

🎸 Bridge:
      G          F#
You like to dance to the rolling head of the adulteress
       A       E
You sing in praise of suicide
 G
We know you’re useless
 F#             A  Em
Like cops at the scene of a crime
       G
With your steroids and your feedbag
              A#
and your stable and your trainer
 B          G#m       G
I got a mail bomb for you, Mr. Strong Arm

🎸 Verse 4:
D
Throw out the stones from all the cemetery homes
                 G
For the violence of a nation gone by
    D               Em
Or the politics of weakness and the garbage dump of souls
        Bm     G#m  G
That will now black the sky

🎸 Pre-Chorus 2:
D                G
Their yellow haze and crowds of eyes
                 D
will plug up the mind that moves
                 G
Moving with grace the men despise,
                D
and women have learned to lose
               G          D  Bm  D
We'll share our bodies in disdain for the system

🎸 Chorus 2:
            D
I see you take another drag
               D
One nation bends to kiss the hag
           Bm   D
The sky is a landfill
            D   Bm  D
I see you take another drag
      Bm       D  B5
I see you take another drag
A   D  B        A  Bm
I have no fear of this machine

🎸 Solo:
A D Bm
D Bm
D Bm
A D Bm
D Bm
D Bm
D
A
A5