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