Ballad of a Cyrstal Man
Donovan
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Walk along and talk along
And live your lives quite freely
But leave our children with their toys of peppermint and candy
For seagull I don't want your wings
I don't want your freedom in a lie
Your thoughts they are of harlequin
Your speeches of quicksilver
I read your faces like a poem kaleidoscope of hate words
For seagull I don't want your wings
I don't want your freedom in a lie
On the quilted battlefields of soldiers dazzling made of toy tin
The big bomb like a child's hand could sweep them dead just so to win
For seagull I don't want your wings
I don't want your freedom in a lie
As you fill your glasses with the wine of murdered negroes
Thinking not of beauty that spreads like morning sun-glow
Seagull, I don't want your wings
I don't want your freedom in a lie
I pray your dreams of vivid screams of children dying slowly
And as you polish up your guns
Your real self be reflecting
For seagull I don't want your wings
I don't want your freedom in a lie
Vietnam, your latest game you're playing with your blackest queen
Damn your souls and curse your grins
I stand here with a fading dream
For seagull I don't want your wings
I don't want your freedom in a lie