Cygnet Committee Chords by David Bowie

[Start]

[Intro]
A7 Dmaj7 D Dm7 D F D Dm7
■  ■     ■ ■   ■ ■ ■ ■  
D D7 Dm7 D Bm D
■ ■  ■   ■ ■  ■


[Verse]
            C     D Bm
I bless you madly ■ ■ 
                  D    
Sadly as I tie my shoes
           D7    Bm
I love you badly ■ 
                        D    
Just in time at times I guess
Bm7            Bm            D    C D
■   Because of you I need to rest ■ ■
Bm                                D   
■  Because it's you that sets the test


[Chorus]
Eb              
So much has gone
Bbm              
And little is new
           Am           
And as the sparrow sings
Gb             
Dawn chorus for
Bbm                 
Someone else to hear
    Am                
The Thinker sits alone
Gb      Bbm  
Growing older
              F
And so bitter ■


[Verse]
            F   
I gave Them life
            F  
I gave Them all
Bbm      C               F    F7
■   They drained my very soul ■ 
    F                                  Bb   
Dry ■ I crushed my heart to ease their pains
C7                F             F7 Ab
No thought for me remains there ■  ■ 
Bb               Db   
Nothing can they spare
     C    
What of me
Am                                 F   
■  Who praised their efforts to be free
G                              C       
Words of strength and care and sympathy
Bm Am                                              F  
■  ■  I opened doors that would have blocked their way
  G                                      C  
I braved their cause to guide for little pay


[Chorus]
Am                                  F    
■  I ravaged at my finance just for those
            Gsus4                  G     C          
Those whose claims were steeped in peace tranquility
Am                                       F   
Those who said a new world new ways ever free
                     Gsus4                 G           
Those whose promises stretched in hope and grace for me


[Solo]
C Am F G
■ ■  ■ ■


[Verse]
D                             
Instrumental I bless you madly
      Em7  Am7    D    
Sadly as I tie my shoes
                 Bm7
I love you badly ■  
Bm                      D    
Just in time at times I guess
Bm7 Bm                       D          
■   Because of you I need to rest oh yes
Bm                                D   
■  Because it's you that sets the test


[Chorus]
Eb                 
■  So much has gone
Bbm              
And little is new
           Am            
And as the sunrise stream
Gb          Bbm
Flickers on me 
Bbm            
My friends talk
   Am                
Of glory untold dream
Gb                                 Bbm 
Where all is God and God is just a word


[Verse]
F                           F7 
■ We had a friend a talking man
C7                F7           
Who spoke of many powers he had
           F                   
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     
Now we are strong
Am                                F  
■  And the road is coming to it's end
G                   G7              C     
Now the damned have no time to make amends
Am                                      F  
No purse of token fortune stands in our way
    G                                  C  
The silent guns of love will blast the sky
Am                                       F  
We broke the ruptured structure built of age
G                               C          
Our weapons were the tongues of crying rage
Am                                    F      
Where money stood we planted seeds of rebirth
    G                                    C   
And stabbed the backs of fathers sons of dirt


[Chorus]
Am                                            F          
Infiltrated business cesspools hating through our sleeves
           G                                   G7  
Yea and we slit the Catholic throat stoned the poor
C                 
On slogans such as
               C   
Wish You Could Hear
C                  
Love Is All We Need
Am               
Kick Out The Jams
Am                  
Kick Out Your Mother
F                 
Cut Up Your Friend
                               G                 
Screw Up Your Brother or He'll Get You In the End
       C                                   Am
And we know the flag of love is from above ■ 
           F                   
And we can force you to be free
           Gsus4                G G7
And we can force you to believe ■ ■ 
C       G             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
G       
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
       Gsus4                    G                         C    
I will kill for the good of the fight for the right to be right
              Am                 
And I open my eyes to look around
Am7 F                                     Gsus4  G
■   ■ And I see a child laid slain on the ground ■
C                   Am                              F
■ As a love machine lumbers through desolation rows ■
                 G                       G7     
Plowing down man woman listening to it's command
        C              
But not hearing anymore
    Am              F
Not hearing anymore ■
         Gsus4            G       
Just the shrieks from the old rich


[Verse]
      G7      C      
And I want to believe
                    G          
In the madness that calls 'Now'
G7               C      
■  And I want to believe
               G                      
That a light's shining through somehow
              Bb     
And I want to believe
                F      
And you want to believe
               C      
And we want to believe
               G   
And we want to live
              Ab  
Oh we want to live
           Bb  
We want to live


[Chorus]
           C   
We want to live
           G   
We want to live
           Ab  
We want to live
           Bb  
We want to live
          C   
I want to live
          G   
I want to live
G7        Ab  
I want to live
          Bb  
I want to live


[Outro]
          C7   C
I want to live ■
          G    G7
I want to live ■ 
Ab       
Live Live
Bb  
Live
C G Ab Bb C G
■ ■ ■  ■  ■ ■


[End]