The Cygnet Committee

This song took me two hours to figure out. It is probably, in my opinion,

one of the greatest David Bowie songs. It is off of -Space Oddity- and

quite a track coming in at over nine minutes. It is quite a piece moving

through so many key changes and other things. Those are things

characteristic of -Space Oddity-, figuring out songs off that album is

quite difficult. I was quite frustrated trying to get some of it but now

that I got all of it, I am quite proud and happy I did it. I am typing

this on a word processor program that does not show any quotation or

apostrophe marks. So to not cause any confusion on the lyrics, I will

use a ~ for an apostrophe and ~~ for both open and closed quotation marks.

I took the lyrics right off of the album and even capitalized a lot of

things that were capitalized on the album sleeve. I hope you enjoy this,

(it took me a really strenuous long time to do but I did enjoy doing it

anyway):

THE CYGNET COMMITTEE

by David Bowie

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 finanace 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

(marching-type beat configuration appears)

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

(it continues with the G-Ab-Bb-C chords until it fades)

The Chords Used Are:

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D x x 0 2 3 x

D/C x 3 x 2 3 x

Bm x 2 4 4 3 2

Bb x 1 3 3 3 x

Eb x 6 5 3 4 3

Bbm x 1 3 3 2 1

A x 0 2 2 2 0

F# 2 4 4 3 2 2

F 1 3 3 2 1 1

C x 3 2 0 1 0

Fm 1 3 3 1 1 1

Ab 4 6 6 5 4 4

Db x 4 6 6 6 x

Am x 0 2 2 1 0

G 3 2 0 0 0 3

Make sure to play the marching chords at the end in barre form.

And that is pretty much it. Please send my email and comment if you find

any errors or anything else not of that nature. Bye-bye.

(This thing came out a bit screwed up, especially with the chords above the

words, but I hope you get the idea)