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