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