"Adieu Louis For You It's Over" lyrics - ROGER WATERS
[Marie Marianne:]
Adieu Louis for you it's over
Too many carpenters and bookkeepers and gardeners
Gave their ordinary lives to be free
On the battlefields of the Tuileries
[Revolutionary Priest:]
To be King is a sacred trust
But you betrayed us
Poor King Louis
We must take your life
Clean the slate, start anew
Poor Louis, it's over for you
[Troublemaker:]
The time for grief is not yet here
It's to build a world without tears
That we toll the funeral bell
And shed our precious blood
Poor Louis and your precious blood as well
[Children's Chorus:]
Poor King Louis, you'll soon be dead
Poor King Louis, far from your bed
[Troublemaker:]
Far from your bed
[Children's Chorus:]
Life must always end to start anew
[Revolutionary Priest:]
Poor King Louis
It's over for you!
[Queen:]
It's always the terror you can rely on
To eat its way into your heart
Like rust and there to spy on
The blood, the blade, the speeches made
That mingle in your very entrails
Ca Ira (2005)
- The Gathering Storm
- Overture
- A Garden In Vienna 1765
- Madame Antoine, Madame Antoine
- Kings, Sticks And Birds
- Honest Bird, Simple Bird
- I Want To Be King
- Let Us Break All The Shields
- The Grievances Of The People
- France In Disarray
- To Laugh Is To Know How To Live
- Slavers, Landlords, Bigots At Your Door
- The Fall Of The Bastille
- To Freeze In The Dead Of Night
- So To The Streets In The Pouring Rain
- Dances And Marches
- Now Hear Ye!
- Flushed With Wine
- The Letter
- My Dear Cousin Bourbon Of Spain
- The Ship Of State Is All At Sea
- Silver, Sugar And Indigo
- To The Windward Isles
- The Papal Edict
- In Paris There's A Rumble Under The Ground
- The Fugitive King
- But The Marquis Of Boulli Has A Trump Card Up His Sleeve
- To Take Your Hat Off
- The Echoes Never Fade From That Fusillade
- The Commune De Paris
- Vive La Commune De Paris
- The National Assembly Is Confused
- The Execution Of Louis Capet
- Adieu Louis For You It's Over
- Marie Antoinette - The Last Night On Earth
- Adieu My Good And Tender Sister
- Liberty
- And In The Bushes Where They Survive