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