COMBEFERRE
At Notre Dame
The sections are prepared

FEUILLY
At rue de Bac
They're straining at the leash

COURFEYRAC
Students, workers, everyone
There's a river on the run
Like the flowing of the tide
Paris coming to our side

ENJOLRAS
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 them 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, you're late

JOLY
What's wrong today?
You look as if you've seen a ghost

GRANTAIRE
Some wine and say what's going on

MARIUS
A ghost you say, a ghost maybe
She was just like a ghost to me
One minute there, then she was gone

GRANTAIRE
I am agog, I am aghast
Is Marius in love at last?
I've never heard him oh and ah
You talk of battles to be won
And here he comes like Don Juan
It's better than an opera

ENJOLRAS
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 colour 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

MARIUS
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

GRANTAIRE
Red

MARIUS
I feel my soul on fire

GRANTAIRE
Black

MARIUS
My world if she's not there

ALL
Red

MARIUS
The color of desire

ALL
Black

MARIUS
The color of despair

ENJOLRAS
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

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

ENJOLRAS
Well, Courfeyrac, do we have all the guns?
Feuilly, Combeferre, our time is running short
Grantaire, put the bottle down
Do we have the guns we need?

GRANTAIRE
Give me brandy on my breath
And I'll breathe them all to death

COURFEYRAC
In Saint Antoine they're with us to a man

COMBEFERRE
In Notre Dame they're tearing up the stones

FEUILLY
Twenty rifles good as new

GAVROCHE
Listen!

JOLY
Twenty rounds for every man

GAVROCHE
Listen to me!

JEAN PROUVAIRE
Double that in Port Saint Cloud

GAVROCHE
Listen everybody!

LESGLES
Seven guns in St. Martin

GAVROCHE
General Lamarque is dead!

ENJOLRAS
Lamarque is dead
Lamarque, his death is the hour of fate
The people's man, his death
Is the sign we await

On his funeral day they will honor his name
It's a rallying cry that will reach every ear
In the death of Lamarque they will kindle the flame
They will see that the day of salvation is near

The time is here
Let us welcome it gladly
With courage and cheer
Let us take to the streets
With no doubt in our hearts
But a jubilant shout

They will come one and all
They will come when we call

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