Red And Black
[00:13]At Notre Dame the sections are prepared!
At rue de Bac they're straining at the leash!
Students, workers, everyone
There's a river on the run
Like the flowing of the tide
Paris coming to our side!
[00:25]The time is near
So near it's stirring the blood in their veins!
[00:34]And yet beware
Don't let the wine go to your brains!
For the army we fight is a dangerous foe
[00:46]With the men and the arms that we never can match
It is easy to sit here and swat 'em like flies
[00:52]But the national guard will be harder to catch.
We need a sign
To rally the people
[00:59]To call them to arms
[01:01]And to bring them in line!
[01:05]Marius, you're late.
[01:07]What's wrong today?
[01:08]You look as if you've seen a ghost.
Some wine and say what's going on!
[01:15]A ghost you say... a ghost maybe
[01:19]She was just like a ghost to me
One minute there, and she was gone!
[01:28]I am agog!
[01:30]I am aghast!
[01:32]Is Marius in love at last?
[01:35]I've never heard him `ooh' and `aah'
You talk of battles to be won
[01:45]And here he comes like Don Ju-an
[01:49]It's better than an o-per-a!
[02:06]It is time for us all
[02:08]To decide who we are
[02:13]Do we fight for the right
[02:14]To a night at the opera now?
[02:19]Have you asked of yourselves
[02:50]What's the price you might pay?
[02:25]Is it simply a game
[02:27]For rich young boys to play?
[02:29]The color of the world
[02:32]Is changing day by day...
[02:37]Red - the blood of angry men!
Black - the dark of ages past!
Red - a world about to dawn!
[02:51]Black - the night that ends at last!
Had you been there tonight
You might know how it feels
[03:04]To be struck to the bone
[03:05]In a moment of breathless delight!
[03:10]Had you been there tonight
[03:11]You might also have known
How the world may be changed
In just one burst of light!
[03:20]And what was right seems wrong
And what was wrong seems right!
[03:28]Red...
[03:39]I feel my soul on fire!
Black...
[03:34]My world if she's not there!
Red...
The color of desire!
Black...
[03:43]The color of despair!
Marius, you're no longer a child
[03:51]I do not doubt you mean it well
[03:53]But now there is a higher call.
Who cares about your lonely soul?
[04:00]We strive toward a larger goal
Our little lives don't count at all!
[04:07]Red - the blood of angry men!
Black - the dark of ages past!
Red - a world about to dawn!
[04:20]Black - the night that ends at last!