Intro
A C, A E (x4)
Verse 1:
A D
Walk along and talk along,
A E A C, A E
And live your lives quite freely.
A D
But leave our children with their toys,
A E A C, A E
Of peppermint and candy.
A D
For seagull, I don't want your wings,
A E A
I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Verse 2:
A D
Your thoughts they are of harlequin,
A E A C, A E
Your speeches of quick-silver.
A D
I read your faces like a poem,
A E A C, A E
Ka-leidoscope of hate words.
A D
For seagull, I don't want your wings,
A E A
I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Verse 3:
A D
On the quilted battle-fields of soldiers,
A E A C, A E
Dazzling made of toy tin.
A D
The big bomb, like a child's hand,
A E A C, A E
Could sweep them dead just so to win.
A D
For seagull, I don't want your wings,
A E A
I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Verse 4:
A D
As you fill your glasses,
A E A C, A E
With the wine of murdered Negroes.
A D
Thinking not of beauty that,
A E A C, A E
Spreads like morning sun-glow.
A D
Seagull, I don't want your wings,
A E A
I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Verse 5:
A D
I pray your dreams of vivid screams,
A E A C, A E
Of children dying slowly.
A D
And as you polish up your guns,
A E A C, A E
Your real self be re-flecting.
A D
For seagull, I don't want your wings,
A E A
I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Interlude:
A C, A E (x4)
Verse 6:
A D
Vietnam; your latest game,
A E A C, A E
You're playing with your blackest Queen.
A D
Damn your souls and curse your grins,
A E A C, A E
I stand here with a fading dream.
A D
For seagull, I don't want your wings,
A E A
I don't want your freedom, in a lie.
Outro:
A C, A E (x8), A
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