The Sky Is A Landfill by Jeff Buckley, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

The Sky Is A Landfill

Biography:

Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley (born in Anaheim, California, USA on 17 November 1966 – 29 May 1997), raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of musicians Tim Buckley and Mary Guibert.

He had emerged in New York City's avant-garde club scene in the 1990s as one of the most remarkable musical artists of his generation, acclaimed by audiences, critics, and fellow musicians alike. His first commercial recording, the four-song EP Live At Sin-é, was released in December 1993 on Columbia Records.

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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(II)
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(II)
You like to dance to the rolling
F#
Head of the adulteress
A5 E5 D5
You sing in praise of suicide
G(II)
We know you’re useless
F# A5 E5 D5
Like cops at the scene of the crime
G(II)
With your steroids and your feedbag
Bb5
And your stable and your trainer
B(b9) G#5 G(II)
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(II): 5554xx
F#: 4443xx
A5: 777xxx
E5: 222xxx
D5: 000xxx
Bb5: 8887xx
B(b9): x24x66

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MPN, 2008