MARIE MARIANNE Adieu Louis for you it’s over Too many carpenters and bookkeepers and gardeners Gave their ordinary lives to be free On the battlefields of the Tuileries
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST To be King is a sacred trust But you betrayed us Poor King Louis We must take your life Clean the slate, start anew Poor Louis, it’s over for you
TROUBLEMAKER The time for grief is not yet here It’s to build a world without tears
That we toll the funeral bell And shed our precious blood Poor Louis and your precious blood as well
CHILDRENS CHORUS Poor King Louis, you’ll soon be dead Poor King Louis, far from your bed
TROUBLEMAKER Far from your bed
CHILDRENS CHORUS Life must always end to start anew
REVOLUTIONARY PRIEST Poor King Louis It’s over for you!
QUEEN It’s always the terror you can rely on To eat its way into your heart Like rust and there to spy on
The blood, the blade, the speeches made That mingle in your very entrails