| C | EADGBE X32010 | Am | EADGBE X02210 | C/B | EADGBE X20010 | Bbm | EADGBE X13321 |
| G | EADGBE 320033 | Fm | EADGBE 133111 | G/B | EADGBE X20033 | G/Bb | EADGBE X10033 |
| A | EADGBE X02220 | Bb | EADGBE X13331 | Eb | EADGBE XX5343 | Fsus4 | EADGBE 133311 |
| F | EADGBE 133211 | Ab | EADGBE 466544 | D/C | EADGBE X30032 | Gsus4 | EADGBE 320013 |
| D | EADGBE XX0232 | Db | EADGBE X46664 | F# | EADGBE 244322 |
INTRO: D Bb
D D/C G/B G/Bb
D D/C G/B G/Bb D
I bless you madly, sadly as I tie my shoes
D/C G/B G/Bb D D/C
I love you badly, just in time, at times, I guess
G/B G/Bb D D/C
Because of you I need to rest
G/B G/Bb D
Because it's you that sets the test
Eb Bbm
So much has gone and little is new
A
And as the sparrow sings
F# Bbm
Dawn chorus for someone else to hear
A F# Bbm
The thinker sits alone 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 C C/B
Nothing can they spare what of me
Am F
Who praised their efforts to be free
G C C/B
Words of strength and care and sympathy
Am F
I opened doors that would have blocked their way
G C C/B
I braved their cause to guide, for little pay
Am F
I ravaged at my finance just for those
G C C/B
Those whose claims were steeped in peace, tranquility
Am F
Those who said a new world, new ways ever free
G C C/B
Those whose promises stretched in hope and grace for me
BREAK: Am F G
D D/C G/B G/Bb D
I bless you madly, sadly as I tie my shoes
D/C G/B G/Bb D D/C
I love you badly, just in time, at times, I guess
G/B G/Bb D D/C
Because of you I need to rest, oh yeah
G/B G/Bb D
Because it's you that sets the test
Eb Bbm
So much has gone and little is new
A F# Bbm
And as the sunrise stream flickers on me
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 C C/B
We let him fill our needs now we are strong
Am F
And the road is coming to its end
G C C/B
Now the damned have no time to make amends
Am F
No purse of token fortune stands in our way
G C C/B
The silent guns of love will blast the sky
Am F
We broke the ruptured structure built of age
G C C/B
Our weapons were the tongues of crying rage
Am F
Where money stood we planted seeds of rebirth
G C C/B
And stabbed the backs of Fathers Sons of dirt
Am F
Infiltrated business cesspools hating through our sleeves
G C
Yeah, and we slit the Catholic throat stoned the poor on slogans such as
C/B Am
Wish you could hear, love is all we need, kick out the jams
F
Kick out your Mother, cut up your friend
G
Screw up your Brother or he'll get you in the end
C C/B Am
And we know the flag of love is from above
F
And we can force you to be free
G
And we can force you to believe
C 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
C C/B
It said 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
C/B Am
And I open my eyes to look around
F Gsus4 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 C/B Am F Fsus4 F
But not hearing anymore, not hearing anymore
G C
Just the shrieks from the old rich and I Want to Believe
G C
In the madness that calls now and I want to Believe
G Bb
That a light's shining through somehow and I Want to Believe
F
And You Want to Believe
C
And We Want to Believe
G
And We Want to Live
Ab Bb
Oh, We Want to Live We Want to Live
C G Ab
We Want to Live We Want to Live We Want to Live
Bb C
We Want to Live I Want to Live
G Ab Bb
I Want to Live I Want to Live I Want to Live
C G
I Want to Live I Want to Live
Ab Bb C G Ab Bb C G
Live, live, live
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