CYGNET COMMITTEE From Space Oddity INTRO: D Bb D D/C G/B G/Bb D D/C G/B G/Bb D I bless you madly, sadly as I tie my shoes D/C G/B G/Bb D D/C I love you badly, just in time, at times, I guess G/B G/Bb D D/C Because of you I need to rest G/B G/Bb D Because it's you that sets the test Eb Bbm So much has gone and little is new A And as the sparrow sings F# Bbm Dawn chorus for someone else to hear A F# Bbm The thinker sits alone growing older and so bitter F Bbm I gave them life, I gave them all C Fm They drained my very soul dry F Bbm I crushed my heart to ease their pains C Fm Ab No thought for me remains there Bbm Db C C/B Nothing can they spare what of me Am F Who praised their efforts to be free G C C/B Words of strength and care and sympathy Am F I opened doors that would have blocked their way G C C/B I braved their cause to guide, for little pay Am F I ravaged at my finance just for those G C C/B Those whose claims were steeped in peace, tranquility Am F Those who said a new world, new ways ever free G C C/B Those whose promises stretched in hope and grace for me BREAK: Am F G D D/C G/B G/Bb D I bless you madly, sadly as I tie my shoes D/C G/B G/Bb D D/C I love you badly, just in time, at times, I guess G/B G/Bb D D/C Because of you I need to rest, oh yeah G/B G/Bb D Because it's you that sets the test Eb Bbm So much has gone and little is new A F# Bbm And as the sunrise stream flickers on me A My friends talk of glory, untold dream F# Bbm Where all is God and God is just a word F Bbm We had a friend, a talking man C Fm Who spoke of many powers that he had F Bbm Not of the best of men, but ours C Fm Ab We used him we let him use his powers Bbm Db C C/B We let him fill our needs now we are strong Am F And the road is coming to its end G C C/B Now the damned have no time to make amends Am F No purse of token fortune stands in our way G C C/B The silent guns of love will blast the sky Am F We broke the ruptured structure built of age G C C/B Our weapons were the tongues of crying rage Am F Where money stood we planted seeds of rebirth G C C/B And stabbed the backs of Fathers Sons of dirt Am F Infiltrated business cesspools hating through our sleeves G C Yeah, and we slit the Catholic throat stoned the poor on slogans such as C/B Am Wish you could hear, love is all we need, kick out the jams F Kick out your Mother, cut up your friend G Screw up your Brother or he'll get you in the end C C/B Am And we know the flag of love is from above F And we can force you to be free G And we can force you to believe 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 C C/B It said 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 C/B Am And I open my eyes to look around F Gsus4 G And I see a child laid slain on the ground C Am As a love machine lumbers through desolation rows F G Ploughing down man, woman, listening to its command C C/B Am F Fsus4 F But not hearing anymore, not hearing anymore G C Just the shrieks from the old rich and I Want to Believe G C In the madness that calls now and I want to Believe G Bb That a light's shining through 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 Bb Oh, We Want to Live We Want to Live C G Ab We Want to Live We Want to Live We Want to Live Bb C We Want to Live I Want to Live G Ab Bb I Want to Live I Want to Live I Want to Live C G I Want to Live I Want to Live Ab Bb C G Ab Bb C G Live, live, live ----------------------------------------- CHORDS: EADGBE ------ C X32010 Am X02210 C/B X20010 Bbm X13321 G 320033 Fm 133111 G/B X20033 G/Bb X10033 A X02220 Bb X13331 Eb XX5343 Fsus4 133311 F 133211 Ab 466544 D/C X30032 Gsus4 320013 D XX0232 Db X46664 F# 244322