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