Ca Ira: Opera in Three Acts: "Vive la Commune de Paris..." - Roger Waters

Vive la Commune De Paris

For the love of God

IN the name of freedom

For the crippled and the poor

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

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

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

Vive la Commune de Paris in God’s name

In God’s name

Vive la Commune de Paris

For the

Halt and the maimed

Who have no Pope and no hope of paradise

No hope of paradise

And nothing to lose but their miserable earthly lives…

Nothing to lose but their lives

Everyone under the sun has the power

To change the way the world is arranged

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

Vi… ve la Commune de Paris

Vive la, vive la, viva la Commune

Vive la, vive la, viva la Commune de Paris