Ballad Of A Crystal Man Lyrics - Singles - Donovan Leitch

From the album fairytale 

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.