"Let Us Break All The Shields" lyrics - ROGER WATERS
[Troublemaker:]
Let us break all the shields
And soil the ermine
Take the oak and the olive tree
Make their philosophy our own
The pigs eat the acorns
The rich eat the pork
The poor eat the olives and spit out the stones
[Revolutionary Priest:]
We only ask a little tax from the nobility
The spat out stone will grow in time into an olive tree
We will smoke our pork over a fire of basilic
[Troublemaker:]
And we will plant the laurel tree
[Revolutionary Priest:]
To make
[Troublemaker:]
To make
[Revolutionary Priest:]
A wreath
[Troublemaker:]
A wreath
A wreath to crown the Republique
[Revolutionary Priest:]
We will smoke our pork upon the pyre of privilege
The flames of castles burning will dance from ridge to ridge
We'll break all the shields
Spit out all the stones
Make the oak and the olive trees' philosophy our own
The pigs eat the acorns
The rich eat the pork
The poor eat the olives and spit out the stones
[Chorus:]
We will smoke the pork on a fire of basilic
We will plant the laurel tree to make our laurel wreaths
To crown, to crown, to crown the Republique!
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