“The Sky Is A Neighborhood,” a track about life’s hardships, is the second single release from their 2017 album, Concrete and Gold.
Prior to its official release, it was performed in May 2017 at an Acoustic 4 A Cure charity show in San Francisco, which benefitted UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital’s...
[Intro]
(Ah-ah, ah-ah
Ah-ah-ah-ah)
[Verse 1]
The sky is a neighborhood, so keep it down
Heart is a storybook, a star burned out
The sky is a neighborhood, don't make a sound
Lights comin' up ahead, don't look now
[Refrain]
The sky is a neighborhood (Ah-ah, ah-ah)
The sky is a neighborhood, (Ah-ah, ah-ah) don't look now
[Chorus]
Oh, my dear, Heaven is a big bang now
Gotta get to sleep somehow
Bangin' on the ceiling, bangin' on the ceiling
Keep it down
Oh, my dear, Heaven is a big bang now
Gotta get to sleep somehow
Bangin' on the ceiling, bangin' on the ceiling
Keep it down
[Verse 2]
Mind is a battlefield, all hope is gone
Trouble to the right and left, whose side you're on?
Thoughts like a minefield, I'm a tickin' bomb
Maybe you should watch your step, don't get lost
[Refrain]
The sky is a neighborhood (Ah-ah, ah-ah)
The sky is a neighborhood, (Ah-ah, ah-ah) don't get lost
[Chorus]
Oh, my dear, Heaven is a big bang now
Gotta get to sleep somehow
Bangin' on the ceiling, bangin' on the ceiling
Keep it down
Oh, my dear, Heaven is a big bang now
Gotta get to sleep somehow
Bangin' on the ceiling, bangin' on the ceiling
Keep it down
[Post-Chorus]
The sky is a neighborhood
[Bridge]
Heart is a storybook, a star burned out
Something comin' up ahead, don't look now
[Chorus]
Oh, my dear, Heaven is a big bang now
Gotta get to sleep somehow
Bangin' on the ceiling, bangin' on the ceiling
Keep it down
Oh, my dear, Heaven is a big bang now
Gotta get to sleep somehow
Bangin' on the ceiling, bangin' on the ceiling
Keep it down
(The sky is a neighborhood) Oh, my dear, Heaven is a big bang now
Gotta get to sleep somehow
(The sky is a neighborhood) Bangin' on the ceiling, bangin' on the ceiling
Keep it down
[Outro]
The sky is a neighborhood
The Sky Is a Neighborhood was written by Chris Shiflett & Pat Smear & Nate Mendel & Rami Jaffee & Taylor Hawkins & Dave Grohl.
The Sky Is a Neighborhood was produced by Greg Kurstin.
Foo Fighters released The Sky Is a Neighborhood on Wed Aug 23 2017.
In an interview with Rolling Stone about the song, Grohl had this to say:
I wrote the song towards the end of the album process. We thought we had finished the album and we had a two-week break. I thought to myself, “I got one more song in me, I got one more song in me.” I was laying down in the gr...