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I bless you madly,
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Sadly as I tie my shoes
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I love you badly,
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Just in time, at times, I guess
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Because of you I need to rest
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Because it's you
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That sets the test
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So much has gone
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And little is new
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And as the sparrow sings
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Dawn chorus for
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Someone else to hear
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The Thinker sits alone growing older
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And so bitter
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"I gave Them life
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I gave Them all
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They drained my very soul
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...Dry
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I crushed my heart
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To ease their pains
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No thought for me remains there
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Nothing can they spare
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What of me?
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Who praised their efforts
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To be free?
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Words of strength and care
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And sympathy
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I opened doors
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That would have blocked their way
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I braved their cause to guide,
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For little pay
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I ravaged at my finance just for those
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Those whose claims were steeped in peace, tranquility
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Those who said a new world, new ways ever free
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Those whose promises stretched in hope and grace for me"
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I bless you madly,
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Sadly as I tie my shoes
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I love you badly, just in time,
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At times, I guess
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Because of you I need to rest, oh yes
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Because it's you
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That sets the test
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So much has gone
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And little is new
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And as the sunrise stream
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Flickers on me,
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My friends talk
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Of glory, untold dream, where all is God and God is just a word
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"We had a friend, a talking man
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Who spoke of many powers that he had
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Not of the best of men, but ours
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We used him
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We let him use his powers
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We let him fill our needs
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Now we are strong
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And the road is coming to its end
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Now the damned have no time to make amends
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No purse of token fortune stands in our way
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The silent guns of love
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Will blast the sky
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We broke the ruptured structure built of age
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Our weapons were the tongues of crying rage
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Where money stood
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We planted seeds of rebirth
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And stabbed the backs of fathers
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Sons of dirt
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Infiltrated business cesspools
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Hating through our sleeves
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Yea, and we slit the Catholic throat
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Stoned the poor
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On slogans such as
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'Wish You Could Hear'
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'Love Is All We Need'
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'Kick Out The Jams'
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'Kick Out Your Mother'
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'Cut Up Your Friend'
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'Screw Up Your Brother or He'll Get You In the End'
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And we know the flag of love is from above
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And we can force you to be free
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And we can force you to believe"
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And I close my eyes and tighten up my brain
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For I once read a book in which the lovers were slain
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For they knew not the words of the Free States' refrain
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It said:
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"I believe in the power of good
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I believe in the state of love
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I will fight for the right to be right
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I will kill for the good of the fight for the right to be right"
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And I open my eyes to look around
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And I see a child laid slain
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On the ground
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As a love machine lumbers through desolation rows
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Plowing down man, woman, listening to its command
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But not hearing anymore
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Not hearing anymore
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Just the shrieks from the old rich
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And I want to believe
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In the madness that calls 'Now'
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And I want to believe
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That a light's shining through
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Somehow
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And I want to believe
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And you want to believe
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And we want to believe
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And we want to live
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Oh, we want to live
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We want to live
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We want to live
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We want to live
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We want to live
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We want to live
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I want to live
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I want to live
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I want to live
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I want to live
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I want to live
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I want to live
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Live
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Live
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David Bowie - Cygnet Committee
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