The Sky Is a Landfill

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Jeff Buckley

Jeffrey Scott "Jeff" Buckley (November 17, 1966 – May 29, 1997), raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician. After a decade as a session guitarist in Los Angeles, Buckley amassed a following in the early 1990s by playing cover songs at venues in Manhattan's East Village, such as Sin-é, gradually focusing more on his own material. After rebuffing much interest from record labels and his father's manager Herb Cohen, he signed with Columbia, recruited a band, and recorded what would be his only studio album, Grace. more »

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1998

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Circle around the park 
Joining hands in silence 
Watch the evil black the sky 

The storm has ripped the shelter 
Of illusion from our brow 
This power is no mystery to us now. 

Leave your spirit genocide 
The cancer you won't remove 
We cast our funeral rose inside 
And bury the need to prove 
Our mutilation is to gain from the system

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 
Like cops at the scene of the crime

With your steroids 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 
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

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