The 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,

14 I gave Them all.

15 They drained my very soul...dry.

16 I crushed my heart to ease Their pains

17 No though for me remains there.

18 Nothing can They spare.

19 What of me?

20 Who prai

21 sed Their efforts to be free?

22 Words of strength and care and sympathy.

23 I opened doors that would have blocked Their way.

24 I braved Their cause to guide, for little pay.

25 I ravaged at my finance just for Those,

26 Those whose claims were steeped in pea

27 ce,tranquility.

28 Those who said a new world,new ways ever free.

29 Those whose promises stretched in hope and grace for me."

30 I bless you madly

31 Sadly as I tie my shoes.

32 I love you badly

33 Just in time,at times,I guess.

34 Because of You I need to rest,oh yea,

35 Because it's You that sets the test.

36 So much has gone and little is new

37 And as the sunrise stream

38 Flickers on me,

39 My friends talk

40 Of glory,untold dream,where all is God and God is just a word.

41 "We had a friend, a talking man

42 Who spoke of many powers th

43 at he had.

44 Not of the best of men, but Ours.

45 We used him.

46 We let him use his powers.

47 We let him fill Our needs.

48 Now We are strong.

49 And the road is coming to its end.

50 Now the damned have no time to make amends.

51 No purse of token fortunes st

52 ands in Our way.

53 The silent guns of love will blast the sky.

54 We broke the ruptured structure built of age.

55 Our weapons were the tongues of crying rage.

56 Where money stood

57 We planted seeds of rebirth

58 And stabbed the backs of fathers,

59 Sons of d

60 irt.

61 Infiltrated business cesspools,

62 Hating through Our sleeve,

63 Yes, and We slit the Catholic throat

64 Stoned the poor on slogans such as

65 'Wish You Could Hear,'

66 'Love Is All We Need,'

67 'Kick Out The Jams,'

68 'Kick Out Your Mother,'

69 'Cut Up Y

70 our Friend,'

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

72 And We Know the Flag of Love is from Above.

73 And We Can Force You to Be Free

74 And We Can Force You to Believe."

75 And I close my eyes and tighten up my brain,

76 For I once read a book in which lovers were slain,

77 For they knew not the words of the Free States' refrain,

78 It said:

79 "I believe in the Power of Good.

80 I Believe in the State of Love.

81 I Will Fight For the Right to be Right.

82 I Will Kill for the Good of the Fight for the Ri

83 ght to be Right."

84 And I open my eyes to look around,

85 And I see a child laid slain on the ground.

86 As a love machine lumbers through desolation rows,

87 Ploughing down man,woman,listening to its command.

88 But not hearing anymore-

89 Not hearing anymore,

90 Just the shrieks from the old rich.

91 And I Want to Believe

92 In the madness that calls 'Now',

93 And I Want to Believe

94 That a light's shining through

95 Somehow.

96 And I Want to Believe

97 And You Want to Believe

98 And We Want to Believe

99 And We Want to Live

100 Oh,We Want to Live

101 We Want to Live

102 We Want to Live

103 We Want to Live

104 We Want to Live

105 We Want to Live

106 I Want to Live

107 I Want to Live

108 I Want to Live

109 I Want to Live

110 I Want to Live

111 I Want to Live

112 Live

113 Live

114 Live