Cygnet Committee Chords by David Bowie

[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