Cygnet Committee Chords by David Bowie
- Key: C
- BPM: 140
- Capo: no capo
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CYGNET COMMITTEE CHORDS
[Intro] Esus4 Em7 Esus4 Bm7 D C D Bm7 ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Asus4 D Bm7 D ■ ■ ■ ■ [Verse] D I bless you madly Bm7 Asus4 D ■ Sadly as I tie my shoes ■ C D Bm7 I love you badly ■ ■ Em7 D C Just in time at times I guess ■ D Bm Em7 D C ■ Because of you I need to rest ■ Bm Bm7 ■ Because it's you D That sets the test Eb So much has gone Bbm And little is new Am And as the sparrow sings Gb Bbm Dawn chorus ■ for [Chorus] Bbm Someone else to hear Am Gb Bbm The Thinker sits alone growing older Bb And so bitter [Verse] F Bb ■ I gave Them life ■ Bb I gave Them all C F They drained my very soul F Dry I crushed my heart Bb To ease their pains C F Ab No thought for me remains there ■ Bb Nothing can they spare Db C ■ What of me Am ■ Who praised their efforts F To be free ■ G G7 Words of strength and care C And sympathy ■ Am I opened doors Am That would have blocked their way [Chorus] F G I ■ braved their cause to guide C For little pay Am F I ravaged at my finance just for those G G7 G C Those whose claims were steeped in peace tranquility Am Em F Those who said a new world new ways ever free G C ■ Those whose promises stretched in hope and grace for me Am F G G7 D ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ [Verse] Esus4 Bm7 I bless you madly ■ Em7 D Sadly as I tie my shoes Bm7 I love you badly ■ just in time Em7 D At times I guess Bm7 Em7 D ■ Because of you I need to rest oh yes D7 Bm ■ ■ Because it's you Em7 Asus4 D That sets the test Eb ■ So much has gone Bb Bbm And little is new Am And as the ■ sunrise stream Gb Bbm Flickers on me [Chorus] Bbm My friends talk Am Gb Bbm F Of glory untold dream where all is God and God is just a word ■ [Verse] Bb We had a friend a talking man C F Who spoke of many powers that he had Bb Not of the best of men but ours C We used him F Ab We let him use his powers Bb Db We let him fill our needs C C7 C Now we are strong ■ ■ Am F ■ And the road is coming to its end G Now the damned have no time to make amends C Am F No ■ purse of token fortune stands in our way G G7 The silent guns of love C Will blast the sky Am F We ■ broke the ruptured structure built of age G G7 C Our weapons were the tongues of crying rage [Chorus] Am Where money stood F We planted seeds of rebirth G And stabbed the backs of fathers G7 C Sons of dirt Am Infiltrated business cesspools F Hating through our sleeves G Yea and we slit the Catholic throat G Stoned the poor C On slogans such as C 'wish You Could Hear' [Verse] Am 'love Is All We Need' Am 'kick Out The Jams' F 'kick Out Your Mother' F 'cut Up Your Friend' G 'screw Up Your Brother or He'll Get You In the End' C And we know the flag of love is from above Am F And ■ we can force you to be free G C And we can force you to believe ■ [Chorus] Am And I close my eyes and tighten up my brain F For I once read a book in which the lovers were slain G For they knew not the words of the Free States' refrain C It said: ■ C I believe in the power of good Am I believe in the state of love F I will fight for the right to be right G C I will kill for the good of the fight for the right to be right Am F And I open my eyes to look around ■ G And I see a child laid slain C On the ground ■ [Verse] Am C Am F As a love machine lumbers through desolation rows ■ G C7 Plowing down man woman listening to its command C But not hearing anymore Am F Not hearing anymore ■ G G7 G Just the shrieks from the old rich ■ C And I want to believe G G7 In the madness that calls 'Now' C And I want to believe G7 That a light's shining through Bb Somehow And I want to believe F And you want to believe C And we want to believe C And we want to live C Oh we want to live [Chorus] G Ab ■ We want to live Bb We want to live F C C7 We want to live ■ C G7 ■ We want to live G7 We want to live [Solo] Bb I want to live [Inst] C Bb N.C. I ■ want ■ to live [Verse] N.C. I want to live N.C. I want to live N.C. I want to live N.C. I want to live N.C. Live Live N.C. Live