Vive La Commune De Paris

(album: Ça Ira - 2005)

[MALE CHORUS]
Vive la Commune De Paris
For the love of God
IN the name of freedom
For the crippled and the poor

[RINGMASTER]
The bells ring out the tambourine beats
The rise and fall of voices
The sound of marching feet
Signals the demise of the Capet dynasty

[TROUBLEMAKER]
It's not whether now but when
The King and Queen have only men
From Switzerland to defend the Tuileries
Remorseless as a rising tide
The san culottes prepare to die
Vive la Commune de Paris

[CHORUS]
Vive la Commune de Paris
Vive la Commune de Paris
Vive la Commune de Paris
Vive la Commune de Paris
Vive la Commune de Paris
Vive la Commune de Paris
Vive la Commune de Paris
Vive la Commune de Paris
Vive la Commune de Paris

[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST]
Vive la Commune de Paris in God's name

[CHORUS]
In God's name

[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST]
Vive la Commune de Paris
For the

[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & CHORUS]
Halt and the maimed

[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST]
Who have no Pope and no hope of paradise

[CHORUS]
No hope of paradise

[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST]
And nothing to lose but their miserable earthly lives...

[CHORUS]
Nothing to lose but their lives

[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST]
Everyone under the sun has the power
To change the way the world is arranged

[MALE CHORUS]
If you don't use it
The powers that be will abuse it
Give up but half of our power
And you'll get shafted

[CHORUS]
Vi......ve la Commune de Paris

[REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & CHORUS]
Vive la, vive la, viva la Commune
Vive la, vive la, viva la Commune de Paris