Cygnet Committee

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 finance 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  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 ...