The Sky Is A Landfill

Album: Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk (1998)
Play Video
  • 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 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.
    Turn your head away from the screen, oh people,
    It will tell you nothing more.
    Don't suck the milk of flaccid Bill K. Puclic'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 of being 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 adultress,
    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, Mr 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.

    I see you take another drag,
    Our 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! Writer/s: JEFF BUCKLEY, MICHAEL TIGHE
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC, Downtown Music Publishing, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments

Be the first to comment...

Editor's Picks

Curt Kirkwood of Meat Puppets

Curt Kirkwood of Meat PuppetsSongwriter Interviews

The (Meat)puppetmaster takes us through songs like "Lake Of Fire" and "Backwater," and talks about performing with Kurt Cobain on MTV Unplugged.

Grateful Dead Characters

Grateful Dead CharactersMusic Quiz

Many unusual folks appear in Grateful Dead songs. Can you identify them?

TV Theme Songs

TV Theme SongsFact or Fiction

Was a Beatles song a TV theme? And who came up with those Fresh Prince and Sopranos songs?

Mike Scott of The Waterboys - "Fisherman's Blues"

Mike Scott of The Waterboys - "Fisherman's Blues"They're Playing My Song

Armed with a childhood spent devouring books, Mike Scott's heart was stolen by the punk rock scene of 1977. Not surprisingly, he would go on to become the most literate of rockers.

Director Wes Edwards ("Drunk on a Plane")

Director Wes Edwards ("Drunk on a Plane")Song Writing

Wes Edwards takes us behind the scenes of videos he shot for Jason Aldean, Dierks Bentley and Chase Bryant. The train was real - the airplane was not.

Dave Mason

Dave MasonSongwriter Interviews

Dave reveals the inspiration for "Feelin' Alright" and explains how the first song he ever wrote became the biggest hit for his band Traffic.