15 Chords used in the song: D, D/C, Bm, Bb, Eb, Bbm, A, F#, F, C, Fm, Ab, Db, Am, G
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D
D/C
I bless you madlyBm
Bb
D
Sadly as I tie my shoe
D/C
I love you badlyBm
Bb
D
D/C
Just in time, at times, I guess
Bm
Bb
D
D/C
Because of you I need to rest
Bm
Bb
D
Because it~s you that sets the testEb
Bbm
So much has gone and little is newBbm
A
And as the sparrow sings
F#
Dawn chorus for
Bbm
Someone else to hearBbm
A
The thinker sits alone
F#
Bbm
Growing older
And so bitterF
Bbm
~~I gave Them life, I gave Them all
C
Fm
They drained my very soul...dryF
Bbm
I crushed my heart to ease Their pains
C
Fm
Ab
No thought for me remains thereBbm
Db
Nothing can they spare
C
What of me?Am
F
Who praised Their efforts to be free?
G
C
Words of strength and care and sympathyAm
F
I open doors that would have blocked their way
GC
I braved Their cause to guide for little payAm
F
I ravaged at my finanace just for Those
G
C
Those whose claims were steeped in peace, tranquilityAm
F
Those who said a new world, new ways ever free
G
C
Those whose promises stretched in hope and grace for me.~~Am
F
G
D
D/C
I bless you madly
Bm
Bb
D
Sadly as I tie my shoeD/C
I love you badly
Bm
Bb
D
D/C
Just in time, at times, I guess
Bm
Bb
D
D/C
Because of you I need to rest
Bm
Bb
D
Because it~s you that sets the testEb
Bbm
So much has gone and little is newBbm
A
And as the sunrise stream
F#
Bbm
Flickers on me
Bbm
A
My friends talk of glory, untold dreamF#
Bbm
Where all is God and God is just a wordF
Bbm
~~We had a friend, a talking manC
Fm
Who spoke of many powers that he had
F
Bbm
Not of the best of men but Ours
C
Fm
Ab
We used him, We let him use his powers
Bbm
Db
We let him fill our needs
C
Now we are strong.Am
F
And the road is coming to its end
G
C
Now the damned have not time to make amendsAm
F
No purse of token fortunes stands in Our way
G
C
The silent guns of love will blast the skyAm
F
We broke the ruptured structure build of age
GC
Our weapons were tongues of crying rage
Am
F
Where money stood we planted seeds of rebirthG
C
And stabbed the backs of fathers, sons of dirt
Am
Infiltrated business cesspools
F
Hating through Our sleeves
G
Yea, and We slit the Catholic throat
C
Stoned the poor on slogans as:
-Wish You Could Hear-
Am
-Love Is All We Need-
-Kick Out The Jams-
-Kick Out Your Mother-
F
-Cut Up Your Friend-
G
-Screw Up Your Brother or He~ll Get You In the End-
CAm
And We Know the Flag of Love is from AboveF
And We Can Force You to Be FreeG
C
And We Can Force You to Believe.~~
Am
And I close my eyes and tighten up my brain
F
For I once read a book in which the lovers were slainG
For they Knew not the words of the Free States~ refrain,
It said:
C
~~I Believe in the Power of Good
Am
I Believe in the State of Love
F
I Will Fight For the Right to be Right
G
C
I Will Kill for the Good of the Fight for the Right to be Right.~~
Am
F
And I open my eyes to look around
G
And I see a child laid slain on the groundC
Am
As a love machine lumbers through desolation rowsF
G
Ploughing down man, woman, listening to its command
C
But not hearing anymore-
Am
F
Not hearing anymoreG
Just the shrieks from the old rich
C
And I Want to Believe
G
In the madness that calls ~Now~
C
And I Want to Believe
G
That a light is shining through somehow
Bb
And I Want to BelieveF
And You Want to Believe
C
And We Want to Believe
G
And We Want to Live
Ab
Oh, We Want to LiveBb
We Want to LiveC
We Want to Live
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G
We Want to LiveAb
We Want to LiveBb
We Want To LiveC
I Want to LiveG
I Want to Live
Ab
I Want to Live
Bb
I Want to LiveC
I Want to LiveG
I Want to Live
Ab
Live
Bb
Live
C
Live
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About this song: Cygnet Commitee
"Cygnet Committee" is a song written by David Bowie in 1969 for his second eponymous album (released in the U.S. as Man of Words, Man of Music and re-released in 1972 as Space Oddity). At over 9 minutes this ambitious progressive folk rock song was Bowie's longest studio recording until the opening/title track of 1976's Station to Station.Lyrical backgroundDuring 1969 Bowie and then-girlfriend Angela Barnett lived in Beckenham, where they ran the Arts Lab, trying to encourage young people to be creative. Read more on Last.fm.