Donovan - Fairytales and Colours

Ballad of a Cyrstal Man

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



Credits
Writer(s): Donovan Leitch
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Other Album Tracks

  1. Catch the Wind
  2. Universal Soldier
  3. Colours
  4. Turquoise
  5. Sunny Goodge Street
  6. Oh Deed I Do
  7. The Little Tin Soldier
  8. Candy Man
  9. Donna Donna
  10. The Summer Day Reflection Song

All Album Tracks: Fairytales and Colours >

Altri album

  1. I Am the Shaman (feat. David Lynch) - Single
  2. Voyage into the Golden Screen (Mono Mix) - Single
  3. The Enchanted Gypsy (Mono Mix) - Single
  4. Song of the Naturalist's Wife (Mono Mix) - Single
  5. Someone Singing (Mono Mix) - Single
  6. Lunarian
  7. Jump In the Line - A Tribute to Harry Belafonte
  8. Jump in the Line - A Tribute to Harry Belafonte
  9. Unplugged
  10. To Sing for You

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