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