Cygnet Committee - 2019 Mix

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 sits 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
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 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, oh yes
 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 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
 Yea, 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
 Plowing 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
 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