Ca Ira: Opera in Three Acts: "Adieu Louis for You It's Over..." - Roger Waters

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

CHILDREN’S CHORUS

Poor King Louis, you’ll soon be dead

Poor King Louis, far from your bed

TROUBLEMAKER

Far from your bed

CHILDREN’S 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