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