Jeff Buckley – The Sky Is A Landfill (Guitar)

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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
Emadd9                                  
   Joining hands in silence             

D7                          Bmadd13-   G/B      
   Watch the evil black the sky         

    D7                          
The storm has ripped the shelter        

         Emadd9                                 
    Of illusion from our brow           

B5       G#5         Gmaj7*             
    This power is no mystery to us now.

Dmaj7           D      Dsus2
     Leave your spirit genocide

Gmaj7              G        Gmaj7
    The cancer you won’t remove

Dmaj7           D               Gmaj7
    We cast our funeral rose inside

             G       Gmaj7
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
            G*                          
You like to dance to the rolling                

F#                              
Head of the adulteress                  

            A5                E5  D5    
You sing in praise of suicide           

G*                                                      
     We know you’re useless

     F#                       A5      E5   D5
Like cops at the scene of the crime

           G*   
With your steroids and your feedbag

                         Bb5
And your stable and your trainer

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: =============== D7: xx0212 Emadd9: xx2002 Bmadd13-: x20032 G/B: x20033 B5: 999xxx G#5: 666xxx
Gmaj7*   : 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