David Bowie - Cygnet Committee lyrics
[David Bowie - Cygnet Committee lyrics]
I bless you madly sadly as I tie my shoes
I love you badly
Just in time, at times, I guess
Because of you I need to rest
Because it's you that sets the test
So much has gone and little is new
And as the sparrow sings dawn chorus for
Someone else to hear
The Thinker sit's alone growing older
And so bitter i gave them life
I gave them all they drained my very soul
Dry i crushed my heart
To ease their pains
No thought for me remains there
Nothing can they spare what of me?
Who praised their efforts to be free?
Words of strength and care and sympathy
I opened doors
That would have blocked their way
I braved their cause to guide for little pay
I ravaged at my finance just for those
Those whose claims were steeped in peace
Tranquility those who said a new world
New ways ever free
Those whose promises stretched in hope
And grace for me
I bless you madly sadly as I tie my shoes
I love you badly
Just in time, at times, I guess
Because of you I need to rest
Because it's you that sets the test
So much has gone and little is new
And as the sunrise stream flickers on me
My friends talk of glory, untold dream
Where all is God and God is just a word
"We had a friend, a talking man
Who spoke of many powers that he had
Not of the best of men, but ours we used him
We let him use his powers
We let him fill our needs now We are strong
And the road is coming to it's end
Now the damned have no time to make amends
No purse of token fortune stands in our way
The silent guns of love will blast the sky
We broke the ruptured structure built of age
Our weapons were the tongues of crying rage
Where money stood
We planted seeds of rebirth
And stabbed the backs of fathers
Sons of dirt infiltrated business cesspools
Hating through Our sleeves
Yeah, and We slit the Catholic throat
Stoned the poor on slogans such as:
'Wish You Could Hear' 'Love Is All We Need'
Kick Out The Jams' 'Kick Out Your Mother'
'Cut Up Your Friend'
'Screw Up Your Brother or He'll
Get You In the End'
'And We Know the Flag of Love is from Above'
'And We Can Force You to Be Free'
'And We Can Force You to Believe'"
And I close my eyes and tighten up my brain
For I once read a book in
Which the lovers were slain
For they knew not the words
Of the Free States' refrain it said:
'I believe in the Power of Good'
'I Believe in the State of Love'
'I Will Fight For the Right to be Right'
'I Will Kill for the Good of the
Fight for the Right to be Right'
And I open my eyes to look around
And I see a child laid slain on the ground
As a love machine lumbers
Through desolation rows
Ploughing down man, woman
Listening to it's command
But not hearing anymore not hearing anymore
Just the shrieks from the old rich
And I want to believe
In the madness that calls 'Now'
And I want to believe
That a light's shining through somehow
And I want to believe
And you want to believe
And we want to believe and we want to live
Oh, we want to live we want to live
We want to live we want to live
We want to live i want to live
I want to live i want to live
I want to live i want to live
I want to live
Live live
Live
I love you badly
Just in time, at times, I guess
Because of you I need to rest
Because it's you that sets the test
So much has gone and little is new
And as the sparrow sings dawn chorus for
Someone else to hear
The Thinker sit's alone growing older
And so bitter i gave them life
I gave them all they drained my very soul
Dry i crushed my heart
To ease their pains
No thought for me remains there
Nothing can they spare what of me?
Who praised their efforts to be free?
Words of strength and care and sympathy
I opened doors
That would have blocked their way
I braved their cause to guide for little pay
I ravaged at my finance just for those
Those whose claims were steeped in peace
Tranquility those who said a new world
New ways ever free
Those whose promises stretched in hope
And grace for me
I bless you madly sadly as I tie my shoes
I love you badly
Just in time, at times, I guess
Because of you I need to rest
Because it's you that sets the test
So much has gone and little is new
And as the sunrise stream flickers on me
My friends talk of glory, untold dream
Where all is God and God is just a word
"We had a friend, a talking man
Who spoke of many powers that he had
Not of the best of men, but ours we used him
We let him use his powers
We let him fill our needs now We are strong
And the road is coming to it's end
Now the damned have no time to make amends
No purse of token fortune stands in our way
The silent guns of love will blast the sky
We broke the ruptured structure built of age
Our weapons were the tongues of crying rage
Where money stood
We planted seeds of rebirth
And stabbed the backs of fathers
Sons of dirt infiltrated business cesspools
Hating through Our sleeves
Yeah, and We slit the Catholic throat
Stoned the poor on slogans such as:
'Wish You Could Hear' 'Love Is All We Need'
Kick Out The Jams' 'Kick Out Your Mother'
'Cut Up Your Friend'
'Screw Up Your Brother or He'll
Get You In the End'
'And We Know the Flag of Love is from Above'
'And We Can Force You to Be Free'
'And We Can Force You to Believe'"
And I close my eyes and tighten up my brain
For I once read a book in
Which the lovers were slain
For they knew not the words
Of the Free States' refrain it said:
'I believe in the Power of Good'
'I Believe in the State of Love'
'I Will Fight For the Right to be Right'
'I Will Kill for the Good of the
Fight for the Right to be Right'
And I open my eyes to look around
And I see a child laid slain on the ground
As a love machine lumbers
Through desolation rows
Ploughing down man, woman
Listening to it's command
But not hearing anymore not hearing anymore
Just the shrieks from the old rich
And I want to believe
In the madness that calls 'Now'
And I want to believe
That a light's shining through somehow
And I want to believe
And you want to believe
And we want to believe and we want to live
Oh, we want to live we want to live
We want to live we want to live
We want to live i want to live
I want to live i want to live
I want to live i want to live
I want to live
Live live
Live