Cygnet Committee (BBC Live Session)

I bless you sadly, madly as the time assures 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 pain, no thought for me remains They're nothing to they care, what of me? Who praised their efforts to be free Words of care and strength and sympathy I opened doors that would have blocked their way Braved their cause, the guide for little pay Ravaged that my finance just for those Those who said a way of peace lay there for me Those who promised goodness and faith in me Those who promised times of peace, tranquility I bless you gladly, sadly as the time assures 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, he spoke of many powers he had Not of the best of men but ours, we used him, let him use his powers We let him fill our needs, now we are strong And the road is coming to its end Now the damned have no time to make amends Though first a token fortune stands in our way Our silent guns of love will blast the sky We crushed not oblivion in a maze And our weapons were the tongues of crying rage Where money stood we planted seeds of rebirth Yeah, we stabbed the backs of fathers, sons of dirt Infiltrated business cesspools, hating through our sleeves Yeah, we slit the Catholic throats, showed the poor and slow Their satin's we're sugar gear, love is all we need Kick out the jams and kick out your mother Cut up your friend and screw up your brother We're the last of the last, we're the last of the last I bless you sadly, madly as the time assures 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 I bless you sadly, madly as the time assures 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 And I close my eyes and tighten up my brain For I once read a book in which the lovers were slain But 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 the load machine lumber through desolation rows Plowing down man, woman listening to it's command But not hearing any more Not hearing any more Just the shrieks from the old rich And I want to believe In the madness that calls now And I want to believe There's a light shining through somehow And I want to believe And you want to believe And we want to believe And we want to live We want to live We want to live I want to live Oh, I want to live I want to live I want to live Live Live