This song took me two hours to figure out. It is probably, in my opinion, one of the greatest David Bowie songs. It is off of -Space Oddity- and quite a track coming in at over nine minutes. It is quite a piece moving through so many key changes and other things. Those are things characteristic of -Space Oddity-, figuring out songs off that album is quite difficult. I was quite frustrated trying to get some of it but now that I got all of it, I am quite proud and happy I did it. I am typing this on a word processor program that does not show any quotation or apostrophe marks. So to not cause any confusion on the lyrics, I will use a ~ for an apostrophe and ~~ for both open and closed quotation marks. I took the lyrics right off of the album and even capitalized a lot of things that were capitalized on the album sleeve. I hope you enjoy this, (it took me a really strenuous long time to do but I did enjoy doing it anyway):
THE CYGNET COMMITTEE by David Bowie
I bless you madly
Sadly as I tie my shoe
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 open doors that would have blocked their way
I braved Their cause to guide for little pay
I ravaged at my finanace 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 shoe
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
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 not time to make amends
No purse of token fortunes stands in Our way
The silent guns of love will blast the sky
We broke the ruptured structure build of age
Our weapons were 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 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
Ploughing 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 is 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
(marching-type beat configuration appears)
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
(it continues with the G-Ab-Bb-C chords until it fades)
The Chords Used Are:
----------- D x x 0 2 3 x D/C x 3 x 2 3 x Bm x 2 4 4 3 2 Bb x 1 3 3 3 x Eb x 6 5 3 4 3 Bbm x 1 3 3 2 1 A x 0 2 2 2 0 2 4 4 3 2 2 1 3 3 2 1 1 C x 3 2 0 1 0 1 3 3 1 1 1 4 6 6 5 4 4 Db x 4 6 6 6 x Am x 0 2 2 1 0 3 2 0 0 0 3
Make sure to play the marching chords at the end in barre form.
And that is pretty much it. Please send my email and comment if you find any errors or anything else not of that nature. Bye-bye.
(This thing came out a bit screwed up, especially with the chords above the words, but I hope you get the idea)
