David Bowie feat. The Tony Visconti Trio - Cygnet Committee (The Sunday Show - Recorded 5.2.70) [2000 Remastered Version] Lyrics

Lyrics Cygnet Committee (The Sunday Show - Recorded 5.2.70) [2000 Remastered Version] - David Bowie & The Tony Visconti Trio



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"
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 that 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 its 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 its 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



Writer(s): DAVID BOWIE


David Bowie feat. The Tony Visconti Trio - Bowie At The Beeb (The Best Of The BBC)
Album Bowie At The Beeb (The Best Of The BBC)
date of release
25-09-2000

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3 Andy Warhol - Sounds of the 70s - Bob Harris, Recorded 23.5.72, 2000 Remastered Version
4 Lady Stardust - Sounds of the 70s - Bob Harris, Recorded 23.5.72, 2000 Remastered Version
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6 Unwashed and Somewhat Slightly Dazed (The Sunday Show - Recorded 5.2.70) [2000 Remastered Version]
7 The Width of a Circle (The Sunday Show - Recorded 5.2.70) [2000 Remastered Version]
8 Starman - Johnnie Walker - Lunchtime Show, Recorded 22.5.72, 2000 Remastered Version
9 Moonage Daydream - Sounds of the 70s - John Peel Recorded 16.5.72, 2000 Remastered Version
10 Changes - Johnnie Walker - Lunchtime Show, Recorded 22.5.72, 2000 Remastered Version
11 Ziggy Stardust - Sounds of the 70s - Bob Harris Recorded 18.1.72, 2000 Remastered Version
12 Ziggy Stardust - Sounds of the 70s - John Peel Recorded 16.5.72, 2000 Remastered Version
13 Waiting For The Man - Sounds of the 70s - Bob Harris Recorded 18.1.72, 2000 Remastered Version
14 Oh! You Pretty Things - Johnnie Walker - Lunchtime Show, Recorded 22.5.72, 2000 Remastered Version
15 Rock 'N' Roll Suicide - Sounds of the 70s - Bob Harris, Recorded 23.5.72, 2000 Remastered Version
16 Space Oddity - Johnnie Walker - Lunchtime Show, Recorded 22.5.72, 2000 Remastered Version
17 Kooks - In Concert, John Peel, Recorded 3.6.71, 2000 Remastered Version
18 Looking For A Friend - In Concert, John Peel, Recorded 3.6.71, 2000 Remastered Version
19 Almost Grown - In Concert, John Peel, Recorded 3.6.71, 2000 Remastered Version
20 It Ain't Easy - In Concert, John Peel, Recorded 3.6.71, 2000 Remastered Version
21 Bombers - In Concert, John Peel, Recorded 3.6.71, 2000 Remastered Version
22 Eight Line Poem (Sounds of the 70s - Bob Harris, Recorded 21.9.71) [2000 Remastered Version]
23 In The Heat Of The Morning - John Peel - Top Gear, Recorded 13.5.68, 2000 Remastered Version
24 Queen Bitch - Sounds of the 70s - Bob Harris Recorded 18.1.72, 2000 Remastered Version
25 Hang On To Yourself - Sounds of the 70s - John Peel Recorded 16.5.72, 2000 Remastered Version
26 Suffragette City - Sounds of the 70s - John Peel Recorded 16.5.72, 2000 Remastered Version
27 Hang On To Yourself - Sounds of the 70s - Bob Harris Recorded 18.1.72, 2000 Remastered Version
28 London, Bye, Ta-Ta - John Peel - Top Gear, Recorded 13.5.68, 2000 Remastered Version
29 Karma Man - John Peel - Top Gear, Recorded 13.5.68, 2000 Remastered Version
30 Silly Boy Blue - John Peel - Top Gear, Recorded 13.5.68, 2000 Remastered Version
31 God Knows I'm Good (The Sunday Show - Recorded 5.2.70) [2000 Remastered Version]
32 The Supermen (with Mick Ronson) - Sounds of the 70s - Bob Harris, Recorded 21.9.71, 2000 Remastered Version
33 Let Me Sleep Beside You - Dave Lee Travis Show - Recorded 20.10.69, 2000 Remastered Version
34 Janine - Dave Lee Travis Show - Recorded 20.10.69, 2000 Remastered Version
35 Wild Eyed Boy From Freecloud - Sounds of the 70s - Andy Ferris, Recorded 25.3.70, 2000 Remastered Version



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