Cygnet Committee Lyrics - David Bowie

1 I bless you madly

2 Sadly as I tie my shoes

3 I love you badly

4 Just in time, at times, I guess

5 Because of you I need to rest

6 Because it's you that sets the test

7 So much has gone and little is new

8 And as the sparrow sings

9 Dawn chorus for

10 Someone else to hear

11 The Thinker sits alone growing older

12 And so bitter

13 "I gave Them life, I gave Them all

14 They drained my very soul dry

15 I crushed my heart to ease Their pains

16 No thought for me remains there

17 Nothing can They spare

18 What of me?

19 Who praised Their efforts to be free?

20 Words of strength and care and sympathy

21 I opened doors that would have blocked Their way

22 I braved Their cause to guide

23 For little pay

24 I ravaged at my finance just for Those

25 Those whose claims were steeped in peace, tranquility

26 Those who said a new world, new ways ever free

27 Those whose promises stretched in hope and grace for me"

28 I bless you madly

29 Sadly as I tie my shoes

30 I love you badly

31 Just in time, at times, I guess

32 Because of you I need to rest, oh yes

33 Because it's you that sets the test

34 So much has gone and little is new

35 And as the sunrise stream

36 Flickers on me

37 My friends talk

38 Of glory, untold dream

39 Where all is God and God is just a word

40 "We had a friend, a talking man

41 Who spoke of many powers he had

42 Not of the best of men, but Ours

43 We used him

44 We let him use his powers

45 We let him fill Our needs

46 Now We are strong

47 And the road is coming to its end

48 Now the damned have no time to make amends

49 No purse of token fortune stands in Our way

50 The silent guns of love will blast the sky

51 We broke the ruptured structure built of age

52 Our weapons were the tongues of crying rage

53 Where money stood, we planted seeds of rebirth

54 And stabbed the backs of fathers, sons of dirt

55 Infiltrated business cesspools

56 Hating through Our sleeves

57 Yeah, and We slit the Catholic throat

58 Stoned the poor on slogans such as

59 'Wish You Could Hear'

60 'Love Is All We Need'

61 'Kick Out The Jams'

62 'Kick Out Your Mother'

63 'Cut Up Your Friend'

64 'Screw Up Your Brother or He'll Get You In the End'

65 And We know the Flag of Love is from above

66 And We can force you to be free

67 And We can force you to believe"

68 And I close my eyes and tighten up my brain

69 For I once read a book in which the lovers were slain

70 For they knew not the words of the Free States' refrain

71 It said:

72 "I believe in the Power of Good.

73 I Believe in the State of Love.

74 I Will Fight For the Right to be Right.

75 I Will Kill for the Good of the Fight for the Right to be Right."

76 And I open my eyes to look around

77 And I see a child laid slain on the ground

78 As a love machine lumbers through desolation rows

79 Plowing down man, woman, listening to its command

80 But not hearing anymore

81 Not hearing anymore

82 Just the shrieks from the old rich

83 And I Want to believe

84 In the madness that calls 'Now'

85 And I want to believe

86 There's a light shining through somehow

87 And I want to believe

88 And you want to believe

89 And we want to believe

90 And we want to live

91 Oh, we want to live

92 We want to live

93 We want to live

94 We want to live

95 We want to live

96 We want to live

97 I want to live

98 I want to live

99 I want to live

100 I want to live

101 I want to live

102 I want to live

103 I want to live

104 Live

105 Live

106 Live