I find the lyrics here far superior to those on Sketches. They’re less sophomoric, and the meaning is more coherent. Maybe it’s just the way that he sings it. Here are the lyrics from this version: Let's circle around the park Joining hands in silence As clouds of people black the sky. This country's ripped the shelter of illusion from our brow. I tell ya, this shadow's no mystery to us now. We leave your ruin far behind, we don't have to be removed. We cast our funeral rose inside and bury the need to prove. Our mutilation is to gain from the system! Oh, turn your head away from the screen It'll tell you nothing more. As we suck the milk of flaccid Bill K. Public's empty promises to the people that the public can ignore. The war they wage is so devised, to rub 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 less lost soul to hoist a flag. The sky is a landfill... I see you take another drag... ...see you take another drag. I say, Come dance to the rolling head of the adulteress, Come sing in praise of suicide, Come join the useless! We'll be cops at the scene of the crime. Oh, it's not the way I was raised. I just feel us heading for darker days. Elegies in stones from all the cemetery homes for the silent generation gone by. Lined up calm in single file to fill that garbage dump of souls that black the sky. Yellow haze in eyes that plug up the mind that moves, We're 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, Black dogs in wait to bite the hand. Sky is a landfill... The sky is a landfill...
Trying to learn this song I have learned most of it but it’s hard to play it right there’s so much going on in the guitar. I sound pretty close but there’s lots of disharmonious chords it sounds a little weird
When I realized there are only a couple live recordings of this song I started bawling...why he was taken from us I will never understand
One day we’ll all understand why. 🤍
One of earth's finest. RIP, Jeff.
this breaks my heart. this shouldnt have been the end of it. damn jeff
Happy Birthday Jeff, 2018
this is surprisingly a great quality bootleg. very clear / almost 100% sonically perfect/recoding. classic Buckley. great stuff.
I've never heard this version before. Thanks for posting!
I find the lyrics here far superior to those on Sketches. They’re less sophomoric, and the meaning is more coherent. Maybe it’s just the way that he sings it. Here are the lyrics from this version:
Let's circle around the park
Joining hands in silence
As clouds of people black the sky.
This country's ripped the shelter of illusion from our brow.
I tell ya, this shadow's no mystery to us now.
We leave your ruin far behind, we don't have to be removed.
We cast our funeral rose inside and bury the need to prove.
Our mutilation is to gain from the system!
Oh, turn your head away from the screen
It'll tell you nothing more.
As we suck the milk of flaccid Bill K. Public's empty promises
to the people that the public can ignore.
The war they wage is so devised, to rub 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 less lost soul to hoist a flag.
The sky is a landfill...
I see you take another drag...
...see you take another drag.
I say, Come dance to the rolling head of the adulteress,
Come sing in praise of suicide, Come join the useless!
We'll be cops at the scene of the crime.
Oh, it's not the way I was raised.
I just feel us heading for darker days.
Elegies in stones from all the cemetery homes
for the silent generation gone by.
Lined up calm in single file to fill that garbage dump of souls
that black the sky.
Yellow haze in eyes that plug up the mind that moves,
We're 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,
Black dogs in wait to bite the hand.
Sky is a landfill...
The sky is a landfill...
Thank you so much for uploading this!
i love it!
Oh my god
i really think the out-of-tune guitar is on purpose :)
Why are all the song titles alpha numeric ?
So it doesn't get taken down by the label
Trying to learn this song I have learned most of it but it’s hard to play it right there’s so much going on in the guitar. I sound pretty close but there’s lots of disharmonious chords it sounds a little weird
Guitar is defo out of tune, not in a big way. And if you cant hear it, then well, bigger fool you :D Love this song and version
maybe he was high
Turn your head away from the screen,,,,,or will tell you nothing more..