Roger Waters - A Garden in Vienna 1765 | Текст песни

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A Garden in Vienna 1765

Madame Antoine, the young Marie Antoinette, sits on a swing beside a peach tree. Beyond the garden wall a Boy (Honest Bird) watches and listens whilst perched in the branches of a spreading oak. Madame Antoine daydreams about her future life as a Queen, imagining all its splendors. Her mother (Marie Therese) calls her in from a window overlooking the garden. Before Madame Antoine leaves her swing, Honest Bird, provoked by all that he has just heard, drops into the garden and challenges her. In no uncertain terms he tells Madame Antoine that her life of privilege and indulgence is made possible only by the privations and suffering of the mass of ordinary people. Unmoved, she dismisses him.

RINGMASTER
Within our humble sawdust ring
The players are arraigned
The powerful and puny
The saintly and deranged

The Honest Bird, a future queen
All innocent and green
Sparring all the livelong day
Make ready for our play
So gentles all, who will hold sway
To a garden in Vienna, let us make our way...