Cygnet Committee

[00:33.14] I bless you madly,

[00:36.61] Sadly as I tie my shoes

[00:40.60] I love you badly,

[00:43.79] Just in time, at times, I guess

[00:51.23] Because of you I need to rest

[00:58.39] Because it's you

[01:00.79] That sets the test

[01:05.30] So much has gone

[01:08.22] And little is new

[01:13.27] And as the sparrow sings

[01:18.86] Dawn chorus for

[01:22.85] Someone else to hear

[01:27.63] The Thinker sits alone growing older

[01:39.05] And so bitter

[01:41.98] "I gave Them life

[01:43.84] I gave Them all

[01:46.23] They drained my very soul

[01:49.94] ...Dry

[01:52.60] I crushed my heart

[01:54.19] To ease their pains

[01:56.59] No thought for me remains there

[02:02.42] Nothing can they spare

[02:05.35] What of me?

[02:09.87] Who praised their efforts

[02:11.75] To be free?

[02:16.54] Words of strength and care

[02:18.39] And sympathy

[02:24.50] I opened doors

[02:25.56] That would have blocked their way

[02:30.62] I braved their cause to guide,

[02:33.27] For little pay

[02:38.85] I ravaged at my finance just for those

[02:44.96] Those whose claims were steeped in peace, tranquility

[02:52.66] Those who said a new world, new ways ever free

[02:57.97] Those whose promises stretched in hope and grace for me"

[03:18.95] I bless you madly,

[03:21.89] Sadly as I tie my shoes

[03:26.13] I love you badly, just in time,

[03:30.64] At times, I guess

[03:36.75] Because of you I need to rest, oh yes

[03:43.67] Because it's you

[03:45.55] That sets the test

[03:50.86] So much has gone

[03:53.79] And little is new

[03:59.13] And as the sunrise stream

[04:05.51] Flickers on me,

[04:10.81] My friends talk

[04:13.73] Of glory, untold dream, where all is God and God is just a word

[04:27.81] "We had a friend, a talking man

[04:32.08] Who spoke of many powers that he had

[04:39.00] Not of the best of men, but ours

[04:42.71] We used him

[04:44.30] We let him use his powers

[04:48.55] We let him fill our needs

[04:50.95] Now we are strong

[04:55.99] And the road is coming to its end

[05:02.64] Now the damned have no time to make amends

[05:05.60] No purse of token fortune stands in our way

[05:16.76] The silent guns of love

[05:19.41] Will blast the sky

[05:24.74] We broke the ruptured structure built of age

[05:31.38] Our weapons were the tongues of crying rage

[05:38.55] Where money stood

[05:39.87] We planted seeds of rebirth

[05:45.73] And stabbed the backs of fathers

[05:48.37] Sons of dirt

[05:54.49] Infiltrated business cesspools

[05:55.81] Hating through our sleeves

[06:00.32] Yea, and we slit the Catholic throat

[06:02.45] Stoned the poor

[06:04.04] On slogans such as

[06:05.10] 'Wish You Could Hear'

[06:06.43] 'Love Is All We Need'

[06:08.02] 'Kick Out The Jams'

[06:09.62] 'Kick Out Your Mother'

[06:11.21] 'Cut Up Your Friend'

[06:13.08] 'Screw Up Your Brother or He'll Get You In the End'

[06:18.12] And we know the flag of love is from above

[06:25.30] And we can force you to be free

[06:26.63] And we can force you to believe"

[06:35.42] And I close my eyes and tighten up my brain

[06:38.08] For I once read a book in which the lovers were slain

[06:41.84] For they knew not the words of the Free States' refrain

[06:44.50] It said:

[06:47.68] "I believe in the power of good

[06:50.61] I believe in the state of love

[06:54.59] I will fight for the right to be right

[07:04.68] I will kill for the good of the fight for the right to be right"

[07:05.21] And I open my eyes to look around

[07:09.73] And I see a child laid slain

[07:12.13] On the ground

[07:18.51] As a love machine lumbers through desolation rows

[07:25.42] Plowing down man, woman, listening to its command

[07:30.21] But not hearing anymore

[07:33.92] Not hearing anymore

[07:40.82] Just the shrieks from the old rich

[07:49.06] And I want to believe

[07:52.24] In the madness that calls 'Now'

[07:55.99] And I want to believe

[07:59.45] That a light's shining through

[08:01.30] Somehow

[08:03.44] And I want to believe

[08:06.35] And you want to believe

[08:10.07] And we want to believe

[08:13.27] And we want to live

[08:16.71] Oh, we want to live

[08:20.71] We want to live

[08:24.41] We want to live

[08:27.87] We want to live

[08:31.59] We want to live

[08:35.04] We want to live

[08:38.76] I want to live

[08:42.21] I want to live

[08:45.93] I want to live

[08:49.66] I want to live

[08:53.37] I want to live

[08:57.09] I want to live

[09:00.01] Live

[09:05.32] Live

[09:09.30] Live