The Sky Is A Landfill - Jeff Buckley

The Sky Is A Landfill

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Tablatura interativa
Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: DCapotraste: Sem capotraste
[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

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Yes. The chord progression works on acoustic guitar, electric guitar and keyboard. Adapt the voicings to your instrument and level.

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