Cygnet Committee Chords by David Bowie

[Intro]
F Dm7 D Dm7 D F D Dsus4
■ ■   ■ ■   ■ ■ ■ ■    
Dm7 D C D Bm D
■   ■ ■ ■ ■  ■


[Verse]
            C     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
■   Because of you I need to rest ■
Bm7 Bm              
■   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      
Dawn for


[Chorus]
Bbm                 
Someone else to hear
    Am                 Gb              
The Thinker sits alone ■  growing older
       Bbm   
And so bitter


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


[Chorus]
Am                                  F    
■  I ravaged at my finance just for Those
G                                        G7          C
Those whose claims were steeped in peace tranquility ■
Am                                       F   
Those who said a new world new ways ever free
                                  G7             G     
Those whose promises stretched in hope and grace for me


[Inst]
G7 C Am F G D
■  ■ ■  ■ ■ ■


[Verse]
  D              
I bless you madly
           G   Am D    
Sadly as I tie my shoes
                 Bm7 Bm          
I love you badly ■   just in time
           D    
At times I guess
Bm7 Bm                       D          
■   Because of you I need to rest oh yes
Bm                 
■  Because it's you
              D   
That sets the test


[Chorus]
F 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                       Gb                           Bbm 
Of glory untold dream where all is God and God is just a word


[Verse]
F                           Bb 
■ We had a friend a talking man
C                 F                 
Who spoke of many powers that he had
                       Bbm     
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 its 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                  
The silent guns of love
G7             C  
Will blast the sky
Am                                       F  
We broke the ruptured structure built of age
G                                      C   
Our weapons were the tongues of crying rage


[Chorus]
Am               
Where money stood
                    F      
We planted seeds of rebirth
    G                    G7     
And stabbed the backs of fathers
        C   
Sons of dirt
Am                            
Infiltrated business cesspools
               F          
Hating through Our sleeves
        G                          
Yea and We slit the Catholic throat
G7             
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                         G7
'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
And We Can Force You to Believe ■


[Verse]
C                     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:


[Chorus]
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
F                             
■ And I see a child laid slain
       Gsus4  G
On the ground ■
C                   Am                              F
■ As a love machine lumbers through desolation rows ■
                   G     Gsus4     G             
Ploughing down man woman listening to its command
        C              
But not hearing anymore
    Am              F
Not hearing anymore ■
         Gsus4                G   
Just the shrieks from the old rich


[Verse]
              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
                      Bb     
Somehow 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
          C   
I want to live


[Chorus]
G Ab Bb C G G7 Ab Bb
■ ■  ■  ■ ■ ■  ■  ■ 
C G Ab Bb C G Ab Bb
■ ■ ■  ■  ■ ■ ■  ■ 


[Outro]
C C7 C
■ ■  ■


[End]