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

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