David Bowie - Cygnet Committee Lyrics
I bless you madly, sadly as I tie my shoesI love you badly, just in time, at times, I guessBecause of you I need to restBecause its you that sets the testSo much has gone and little is newAnd as the sparrow singsDawn chorus forSomeone else to hearThe thinker sits alone growing olderAnd so bitterI gave them lifeI gave them allThey drained my very soul...dryI crushed my heart to ease their painsNo thought for me remains thereNothing can they spareWhat of me?Who praised their efforts to be free?Words of strength and care and sympathyI opened doors that would have blocked their wayI braved their cause to guide, for little payI ravaged at my finance just for thoseThose whose claims were steeped in peace, tranquilityThose who said a new world, new ways ever freeThose whose promises stretched in hope and grace for meI bless you madly, sadly as I tie my shoesI love you badly, just in time, at times, I guessBecause of you I need to rest, oh yesBecause its you that sets the testSo much has gone and little is newAnd as the sunrise streamFlickers on me,My friends talkOf glory, untold dream, where all is God and God is just a wordWe had a friend, a talking manWho spoke of many powers he hadNot of the best of men, but oursWe used himWe let him use his powersWe let him fill our needsNow we are strongAnd the road is coming to its endNow the damned have no time to make amendsNo purse of token fortune stands in our wayThe silent guns of love will blast the skyWe broke the ruptured structure built of ageOur weapons were the tongues of crying rageWhere money stoodWe planted seeds of rebirthAnd stabbed the backs of fathersSons of dirtInfiltrated business cesspoolsHating through our sleevesYea, and we slit the catholic throatStoned the poor on slogans such asWish you could hearLove is all we needKick out the jamsKick out your motherCut up your friendScrew up your brother or hell get you in the endAnd we know the flag of love is from aboveAnd we can force you to be freeAnd we can force you to believeAnd I close my eyes and tighten up my brainFor I once read a book in which the lovers were slainFor they knew not the words of the free states refrainIt saidI believe in the power of goodI believe in the state of loveI will fight for the right to be rightI will kill for the good of the fight for the right to be rightAnd I open my eyes to look aroundAnd I see a child laid slain on the groundAs a love machine lumbers through desolation rowsPloughing down man, woman, listening to its commandBut not hearing anymoreNot hearing anymoreJust the shrieks from the old richAnd I want to believeIn the madness that calls nowAnd I want to believeThat a lights shining throughSomehowAnd I want to believeAnd you want to believeAnd we want to believeAnd we want to liveOh, we want to liveWe want to liveWe want to liveWe want to liveWe want to liveWe want to liveI want to liveI want to liveI want to liveI want to liveI want to liveI want to liveLiveLiveLiiive
