Ballad of a Crystal Man (Universal Soldier EP Version)

Ballad of a Crystal Man (Universal Soldier EP Version) - Donovan

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