D         D/C
I bless you madly
Bm   Bb         D
Sadly as I tie my shoe
        D/C
I love you badly
Bm       Bb           D    D/C
Just in time, at times, I guess
 Bm     Bb         D   D/C
Because of you I need to rest
 Bm       Bb           D
Because it~s you that sets the test

Eb           Bbm
So much has gone and little is new
Bbm        A
And as the sparrow sings
   F#
Dawn chorus for
 Bbm
Someone else to hear
Bbm       A
The thinker sits alone
 F#   Bbm
Growing older

And so bitter

F                    Bbm
~~I gave Them life, I gave Them all
  C           Fm
They drained my very soul...dry
F                     Bbm
I crushed my heart to ease Their pains
   C          Fm     Ab
No thought for me remains there
Bbm          Db
Nothing can they spare
     C
What of me?

Am                            F
Who praised Their efforts to be free?
 G                          C
Words of strength and care and sympathy
Am                                    F
I open doors that would have blocked their way
  G                                    C
I braved Their cause to guide for little pay
Am                             F
I ravaged at my finanace just for Those
         G                            C
Those whose claims were steeped in peace, tranquility
Am                                 F
Those who said a new world, new ways ever free
                   G                         C
Those whose promises stretched in hope and grace for me.~~

Am     F      G

D           D/C
I bless you madly
 Bm    Bb           D
Sadly as I tie my shoe
           D/C
I love you badly
 Bm       Bb                D  D/C
Just in time, at times, I guess
 Bm        Bb           D   D/C
Because of you I need to rest
 Bm          Bb               D
Because it~s you that sets the test

Eb              Bbm
So much has gone and little is new
Bbm          A
And as the sunrise stream
 F#         Bbm
Flickers on me
            Bbm      A
My friends talk of glory, untold dream
    F#            Bbm
Where all is God and God is just a word

F                       Bbm
~~We had a friend, a talking man
    C          Fm
Who spoke of many powers that he had
 F                     Bbm
Not of the best of men but Ours
 C                   Fm          Ab
We used him, We let him use his powers
 Bbm                Db
We let him fill our needs       
         C
Now we are strong.

Am                          F
And the road is coming to its end
 G                            C
Now the damned have not time to make amends
Am                                   F
No purse of token fortunes stands in Our way
  G                            C
The silent guns of love will blast the sky

Am                                   F
We broke the ruptured structure build of age
    G                       C
Our weapons were tongues of crying rage
    Am                           F
Where money stood we planted seeds of rebirth
    G                               C
And stabbed the backs of fathers, sons of dirt

 Am
Infiltrated business cesspools
            F
Hating through Our sleeves
          G
Yea, and We slit the Catholic throat
                C
Stoned the poor on slogans as:

        -Wish You Could Hear-
   Am
        -Love Is All We Need-

        -Kick Out The Jams-

        -Kick Out Your Mother-
  F
        -Cut Up Your Friend-
                              G
        -Screw Up Your Brother or He~ll Get You In the End-

     C                             Am
And We Know the Flag of Love is from Above
        F
And We Can Force You to Be Free
        G                C
And We Can Force You to Believe.~~

                    Am
And I close my eyes and tighten up my brain
                               F
For I once read a book in which the lovers were slain
                                  G
For they Knew not the words of the Free States~ refrain,

It said:

 C
~~I Believe in the Power of Good
   Am
I Believe in the State of Love
        F
I Will Fight For the Right to be Right
          G                                                             
C
I Will Kill for the Good of the Fight for the Right to be Right.~~

           Am               F
And I open my eyes to look around
                                 G
And I see a child laid slain on the ground
C               Am
As a love machine lumbers through desolation rows
F               G
Ploughing down man, woman, listening to its command
       C
But not hearing anymore-
     Am         F
Not hearing anymore
          G
Just the shrieks from the old rich

            C
And I Want to Believe
                G
In the madness that calls ~Now~
            C
And I Want to Believe
                        G
That a light is shining through somehow

            Bb
And I Want to Believe
             F
And You Want to Believe
          C
And We Want to Believe
         G
And We Want to Live
          Ab
Oh, We Want to Live
        Bb
We Want to Live
        C
We Want to Live

(marching-type beat configuration appears)

      G
We Want to Live
        Ab
We Want to Live
        Bb
We Want To Live
          C
I Want to Live

          G
I Want to Live
        Ab
I Want to Live
        Bb
I Want to Live
          C
I Want to Live
          G
I Want to Live

 Ab
Live
 Bb
Live
 C
Live

(it continues with the G-Ab-Bb-C chords until it fades)

The Chords Used Are:

       E  A D  G B E
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