Scene 5
"Liberty"
TROUBLEMAKER
We want to get rid of the guillotine
And abolish pain somehow
But to make a world free of tears
We build these scaffolds now
OFFICER
Come dry your tears and pray explain
How can we abolish pain?
If we don't build these scaffolds now
These instruments of injustice
These tools of execution
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
We've given to the guillotine
More blood than you have ever seen
What end could justify these means?
OFFICER
We've given more of our blood
MALE CHORUS
We've given
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
We've given more of our blood
MALE CHORUS
We've given
OFFICER
We've given more of our blood
MALE CHORUS
More of our blood
CHORUS
We've given, we've given
More blood than we could turn to love
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & OFFICER
Than we could ever hope to turn to
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
Love
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & OFFICER
More blood, than we could
Ever hope could turn to love
CHORUS
We've given, we've given
More blood, than we could turn to love
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
Come angles of mercy, come doves of peace
Shine a light on all these warring clubs and cliques
OFFICER
The jackal and hyena who prowl these city streets
Would turn in their own mother for a little extra meat
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
From the piles of dead, the Republic comes to life
Her mutilated body reeling like a drunken fishwife
Gives birth to the future
OFFICER
Gives birth on the street
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST, OFFICER & CHORUS
Impure and exultant she gives birth to the dream
RINGMASTER & MARIE MARIANNE
When the dream
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
When the dream
RINGMASTER & MARIE MARIANNE
Is understood
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST
Is understood
RINGMASTER, REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST & MARIE MARIANNE
That no man should live in chains
That the great and the small are equal after all